Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Friday, Aug. 16 Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer Senior Center. Double Trouble, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Serenity Center, Ironwood. Mercer Food Pantry, noon-1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Wis. Emergencies: 715-476-7655. Alcoholics Anonymous/ Al-Anon, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EST, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Government Gogebic...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] MERCER, Wis. — School boards need differences of opinion but should work together toward a common good, say new members of the Mercer Board of Education. Two interim board members, Sue Loth and Jeff Nehring, were elected by the full board in late July. Both said that board communication and the students were their priorities. “Sue, as a retired teacher in Racine, brings a real solid educational aspect to the board,” said Robert Davis, school board president. “Jeff has previous board experie...
WAKEFIELD, Mich. — Marie Florence Lesinski, 66, of Wakefield, passed away Wednesday morning, Aug. 14, 2019. Marie was born on March 20, 1953, in Bessemer Township, the daughter of Florence Marie “Flossie” Anderson and Frank James Lesinski Jr. Through the years, Marie looked forward to participating in Special Olympics. She enjoyed shopping and wearing jewelry. Marie is survived by a cousin, Paul Gene Kriska, Ramsay; other extended family; many dear friends, including past and present Keen Agers and Community Mental Health staff; and longtime gu...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] IRONWOOD — Kay Johnson said her “art brain” kicked in when she saw the devastation that had befallen a pair of small trees in the Pocket Park in downtown Ironwood by a heavy, early October snowfall a couple years ago. The snow load had swashed the two ornamental Norway maples in the park at the corner of Suffolk and Aurora streets, leaving many of the branches broken. “I thought there must be something we can do with these trees, and I remembered th...
WAKEFIELD - A table full of pie slices in various flavors tantalized visitors at a Thursday afternoon social by the Wakefield-Bessemer Rotary Club. The colorful array at Wakefield's VFW Post 9084 included the flavors of apple, strawberry-rhubarb, lemon meringue, coconut cream, key lime, custard and various berry flavors. "We do it more as a social event than a fundraiser," said Rotary Club president Jeanne Graham, who was manning the entry table with Julie Hautala, who organized the event....
