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Articles from the August 24, 2015 edition


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  • Residents clean up Montreal River

    Richard Jenkins|Aug 24, 2015

    IRONWOOD - A group of residents gathered at the pavilion in Ironwood's Depot Park Saturday morning to receive assignments for the summer clean-up of the Montreal River. The clean-up was one of three this year, said Ian Shackleford - a botanist with the U.S. Forest Service which helped an organize the cleanup - and was coordinated by the Forest Service, the Ironwood Parks and Recreation Committee and the Iron County Land and Water Conservation Department. There was a clean-up using kayaks in...

  • Iron County Farmers Market celebrates 25 years at Pavilion

    Richard Jenkins|Aug 24, 2015

    KIMBALL, Wis. - The Iron County Farmers Market was especially crowded Saturday as the market dedicated a new sign commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Lucy Luoma Hantala Pavilion, the market's home. Located at the corner of 10th Avenue and U.S. 51, the pavilion is named after Lucy Luoma Hantala, a former teacher of one of the market's founding fathers, John Sola and a supporter of the effort to build the pavilion. "The market had applied for a grant to construct the new pavilion, but the...

  • Marty's picnic full of family fun

    Richard Jenkins|Aug 24, 2015

    BESSEMER - It was a party in Bessemer's Bluff Valley Park Saturday as the park was the site of the annual town picnic, hosted by Marty's Goldenaires. The day featured a variety of games for both children and adults, including penny pitch, chuck-a-luck, frog races, super-sized beer pong - which features soccer balls and garbage cans - and a corn hole tournament. There was also the standard summer picnic-fare of burgers, bratwurst, hot dogs, grilled corn and chicken as well as refreshments....

  • Community Calendar

    Aug 24, 2015

    Monday, Aug. 24 Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, Wis. 715-561-4450. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Finnish language class, 4 p.m., Little Finland, Kimball, Wis. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EDT, Ontonagon Village Housing, 100 Cane Court, Ontonagon. area74.org. Methamphetamine ETC, 8 p.m., support group, Woodland Church, Ironwood. 906-285-2813 or methetc.web.com. Government City of...

  • Bump, Set, Spike

    Aug 24, 2015

    THE SUPERIOR Volleyball League held its annual end of the season tournament Saturday at Carey Park in Hurley. Estimates by participants put attendance at the event around 100 people. Among the teams facing off were those sponsored by Bank Club and the Branding Iron, which met in the finals with Bank Club's team winning the tournament....

  • Beverly J. Gingery

    Aug 24, 2015

    LORETTO, Mich. - Beverly J. Gingery, 80, of Pioneer Park Apartments, Ironwood, died unexpectedly Thursday morning, Aug. 20, 2015, at her granddaughter's home in Loretto. The former Beverly Morse was born Dec. 5, 1934, in Greenwood, Wis., daughter of the late Ernest and Evelyn (Anderegg) Morse, and attended Milwaukee and South Milwaukee schools. She was employed at the Fannie Farmer Candy Co. in Milwaukee, George Webb's in Cudahy, Wis., and at the W.A. Krueger Co. in West Allis, Wis. making book...

  • Langdon wins Gogebic men's club championship

    Jason Juno|Aug 24, 2015

    IRONWOOD - Zak Langdon of Ironwood survived a windy day and his boss to win the Gogebic Country Club men's club championship Saturday. He defeated Dave Chase of Ironwood 4-up in the final. "I just played steady; I played pretty good golf all day," Langdon said. "My chipping and putting was not the best, but I just made a lot of pars and capitalized on the other person's mistakes. I just played steady. I didn't really play great, I didn't play bad, just steady golf." That was on a day with a...