Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - The U.S. 2 Business Route improvement project in Ironwood will begin on Wednesday, Aug. 9, but resurfacing won't begin until Aug. 28, according to the Michigan Department of Transportation. That means the resurfacing stage of the project will not occur until the Gogebic County Fair (Aug. 24-27) has ended. BR-U.S. 2 extends from Cloverland Drive along Douglas Boulevard and then Aurora Street to the triangle with McLeod Avenue and Scott...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — A 33-year-old Ironwood Township man was in custody at the Gogebic County Jail for larceny from a motor vehicle. A township resident called the sheriff’s department on July 24 to report a theft over the previous weekend from his property off Airport Road. Deputies found the man’s Subaru, parked on a trailer, jacked up and placed on jack stands so the wheels could be removed. The vehicle had clearly been rummaged through as the contents of the glove compartment were on the passenger seat...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — While no formal action was taken Tuesday, the Iron County Forestry and Parks Committee considered a request from the city of Montreal to have the county assume control of the city’s Gile Park. Montreal City Councilor Leola Maslanka told the committee the council voted to make the request at its meeting last month as the city no longer had the resources to maintain the park. “Back when we received it from the county we had a lot more people employed with the city of Montreal,” Maslank...
Wednesday, Aug. 2 Christian Men of the Northland, 6:30 a.m., Uptown Cafe, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. DOVE Support Group, noon-2 p.m. 906-932-4990. Ironwood/Hurley Rotary Club, 12:15 p.m., Elk and Hound Restaurant, Ironwood. Iron County Veterans Service Officer, 1-3 p.m., Mercer, Wis., Town Hall. 715-561-2190. Alzheimer’s Disease Caregivers Support Group, 6-7 p.m., Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Mercer, Wis. Superior Riders, 6:30 p.m., Brewster’s ride, Ironwood. Bes...
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 1985. 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 e...
