Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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HURLEY — The annual Festivale Italiano is taking place Saturday in downtown Hurley. According to Dorrene O’Donnell, executive director of the Hurley Area Chamber of Commerce, the “fun-filled, family event” starts at 11 a.m. with craft and food vendors set up for “shopping and lunch.” “I encourage everyone to come down and celebrate all things Italian with the rest of us,” O’Donnell said. “Be Italian for a day.” The stretch of Silver Street from U.S. 51/Second Avenue to Fifth Avenue will be... Full story
To the Editor: I am concerned about the Wakefield City Council allowing Scott Favero to clean up a site along an abandoned railroad that includes old bulk tanks and tires on city and private property. Is he insured for this task? Who will pay if any injury or death occur? The city’s taxpayers? The private property owner? This will require more help cleaning this eyesore than one person. Will they be covered by insurance? Will he just reap the scrap worth money and leave the rest? And what if there are hazardous chemicals in those tanks? Who w... Full story
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Diane Lekies, of N12115 Black River Road, Ironwood Township, passed unexpectedly on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013, in Ironwood. Her presence lives on through her husband, Donald Lekies, and five children, Cynthia Sparling-Paynter, Mark Sparling, Jefferson Lekies (Debbie), Kristin Vehring (Jon) and Robin Jo Eplett (Dave). She was also loved and adored by her eight grandchildren, Crystal, Melissa, Christian, Nicole, Janelle, Jacob, Avery and Jeffrey. She was born on Sept. 26, 1... Full story
IRONWOOD, Mich. — Leone E. Gulan, 102, of Southgate Village, Hurley, Wis., died Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, at Aspirus Grand View Hospital in Ironwood. The former Leone Sawicki was born Nov. 26, 1910, in Ironwood, daughter of the late John and Josephine (Sentkowski) Sawicki, and attended Ironwood schools. She was employed as a housekeeper in Chicago and Minneapolis for a short time, and cooked at the Liberty Bell Chalet in Hurley for 10 years. Leone was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in... Full story
WASHINGTON (AP) — Standing on hallowed ground of the civil rights movement, President Barack Obama challenged new generations Wednesday to seize the cause of racial equality and honor the “glorious patriots” who marched a half century ago to the very steps from which Rev. Martin Luther King spoke during the March on Washington. In a moment rich with history and symbolism, tens of thousands of Americans of all backgrounds and colors thronged to the National Mall to join the nation’s first black p... Full story
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Wednesday it would take action against the Syrian government even without the backing of allies or the United Nations because diplomatic paralysis must not prevent a response to the alleged chemical weapons attack outside the Syrian capital last week. New requests for the United Nations to authorize military action in Syria may have complicated the Obama administration’s plan to take retaliatory action on the purported poison gas attack east of... Full story
NEW YORK (AP) — Fast-food customers in search of burgers and fries today might run into striking workers instead. Organizers say thousands of fast-food workers are set to stage walkouts in dozens of cities around the country, part of a push to get chains such as McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Wendy’s to pay workers higher wages. It’s expected be the largest nationwide strike by fast-food workers, according to organizers. The biggest effort so far was over the summer when about 2,200 of the nation’s m... Full story
