Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD - To help students get prepared for the first day of the coming school year, which is scheduled for Tuesday, Ironwood Area Schools held a Back to School fair at Luther L. Wright K-12 School on Thursday. Outside the school, Superintendent Travis Powell was grilling hamburgers and hot dogs and serving them to students and their families while welcoming them back for another year of school. Students were able to visit their classroom and meet the...
HOUGHTON — Gogebic Community College forestry instructor Bill Perkis was inducted into Michigan Technological University’s College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science Honor Academy on Aug. 5. The ceremony was held in the atrium of the Noblet Forestry and Wood Products Building on the MTU campus during the alumni reunion. Many of his fellow Huskies were on hand to help celebrate this occasion, according to a press release from GCC. The College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science Honor Academy was established in 1995, and inc...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, Aug. 20 Union Station Food Pantry and Northern Food Bank, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 252 E. Ayer St., Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Emberlight Festival Performance Infusion — Dragon Kiln, 1 p.m., Miners Memorial Heritage Park, Ironwood. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2-5 p.m., Mercer School gymnasium. 715-776-4588. Sunday, Aug. 21 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed m... Full story
ALBANY, Ga. - Lizzette (nee Collins) Obiden loved and was loved. On Feb. 10, 2022, she left this world surrounded by that love. She is missed, especially by her family and friends. Some friendships were decades-long and from all over the world. All are profoundly saddened by her passing. All remember her sharp wit, style, sense of humor, infectious laugh, expansive intelligence and delicious dinner parties, filled with the aromas and spices from her travels. She was an outstanding woman, who... Full story
EAGLE RIVER, Wis. - Joyce A. (Hegemann) Ludtke passed away on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022. She was 82. She was born May 19, 1940, in Milwaukee, to Elmer and Rose (Bralick) Hegemann. She graduated from Waterford High School in 1958. She married her best friend and love of her life Gene Ludtke on Sept. 26, 1959. He proceeded her in death on Aug. 24, 2017. Joyce had previously worked at Grand View Hospital in Ironwood, Michigan, Gogebic Federal Credit Union in Bessemer, Michigan, and was manager of... Full story
HURLEY, Wis. - Kathleen "June" Calvetti, 93, formerly of Hurley, passed away at her home in Rhinelander on July 29, 2022. June was born in Highland Park, Michigan, on March 13, 1929, to Charles F. and Kathleen M. (Taylor) Langsford. June graduated from Lincoln High School in Hurley in 1947. She began working at the age of 18 for Oscar Swee Insurance Agency. June continued to work as an Independent Insurance Agent for 47 years. On Nov. 28, 1949, June married the love of her life, Richard L.... Full story
BESSEMER, Mich. - Michael William Juleff passed away Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, after a brief battle with cancer. Mike was born on Sept. 7, 1965. He grew up in Atlantic Mine, attended Redridge and E.B. Holman elementary schools and graduated from Houghton High School. On Jan. 14, 1994, he married the former Kathy Miller of Houghton. They resided in Bessemer for the past 21 years. Over the years, Mike worked at various Ski Resorts and developed a dare-devil love of skiing where he earned his... Full story
