Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Tuesday, Aug. 1 Pickleball, 10 a.m. to noon, Ironwood Memorial Building. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Golden Dragon. New members welcome. Cribbage, 1 p.m., Mercer, Wis., Public Library. 715-476-2366. Disabled American Veterans, 6 p.m., Ironwood American Legion. Life Support Group, 6:30 p.m., Woodland Church, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — A married Wakefield couple faces felony animal cruelty charges for their treatment of eight dogs and 13 cats found malnourished and allegedly abused. Gerard Joseph Herlache, 51, and Lawrence C. Murphy, 52, were each arraigned Monday on two counts of abandoning/cruelty to 10 or more animals. Each of the felony counts carries a potential maximum sentence of four years in prison, a $5,000 fine and/or up to 500 hours of community service. The charges stem from a visit the Gogebic County S...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - On Monday, a group of bicyclists and one inline skater passed through Ironwood on U.S. 2 on their way to Ewen. The group is part of the Sea to Sea cross-country cycling tour that in the past has stayed in Canada and gone around Lake Superior to the north, but this year wanted to travel around Lake Superior to the south, according to Ed Witvoet, tour consultant. Witvoet said the Sea to Sea tour is the only cross-country tour fighting...
HURLEY — The deadline to respond to the Iron County University of Wisconsin-Extension office’s grandparents survey has been extended. Residents now have until Aug. 15 to fill out the survey, which is designed to get information on the educational and support needs of the county’s grandparents and determine ways to help grandparents “provide a safe and nurturing environment for children,” Iron and Ashland County Family Living Educator Heidi Ungrodt said. “I help out with running errands, babysitting, and taking the grandkids to sporting ev...
HOUGHTON, Mich. — Jill L. Saaranen Sliger passed away the morning of July 30, 2017, at the Omega Cancer Center in Houghton. She was born Oct. 30, 1964, in Wakefield. She graduated from Ewen-Trout Creek High School in 1983 and moved to Tallahassee, Fla., in 1895. She is survived by Sten Sliger; their children, Case, Jillian and Tess of Tallahassee; three brothers, Jay (Donna) of Trout Creek, Joey of Noble, Okla., and Derek (Angela) of Cary, N.C. She was preceded in death by her parents, Lois Platzke and Ed Saaranen. She was a special education t...
