Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] RAMSAY - Labor Day weekend is traditionally a time when family and friends gather for games, barbecues and an opportunity to enjoy each other's company before the winter season creeps in. Sunday afternoon was no exception as people came from near and far to indulge in the many new park amenities at Ramsay Memorial Park, made possible by a $400,000 renovation. Also ready just in time as an additional route to get there was the recently finished Iron Belle...
BESSEMER — Although a ceremony is planned later this week to formalize the event, the newest local segment of the non-motorized Iron Belle Trail is now open. The segment extending the trail from Moore Street in Bessemer to Ramsay opened Friday. Prior to the segment’s completion the local trail ran from the Hurley trailhead between U.S. 51 and the Montreal River in Wisconsin into Michigan to the Moore Street trailhead. A ribbon-cutting ceremony is planned for Thursday in Ramsay to mark the trail opening. Due to COVID, this is an invite-only eve...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — Members of an emerging band said a lot of firsts were realized at the First Friday live streaming concert, Friday. For most of the members of Myron Elkins and the Dying Breed it was the first time to the Upper Peninsula and Wisconsin. It was also their first opportunity to live-stream a concert. “It feels nice to be up here,” said Myron Elkins, the lead singer, who also works as a welder in Kalamazoo. “Down where I’m from everyone is just 100 miles per hour all the time.” The band formed...
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Joan Hantula Miller, 78, of Cupertino, passed away in peace on Thursday, August 27, 2020, with family by her side. She was born to the late Gust and Mary Hantula on July 28, 1942, in Ironwood, Michigan. Upon graduating from Luther L. Wright High School, she moved to Ann Arbor where she worked for the University of Michigan. There she developed her life-long love of Michigan football and the marching band. You could often hear her singing the Michigan fight song on any given...
JACKSONVILLE, Florida - Debra June "Debbie" Holemo passed away Sept. 5, 2020. She was born Oct. 15, 1955. Deb moved to Florida after graduating from Luther L. Wright High School in Ironwood, Michigan, in 1973. Deb worked for 32 years as rural postal carrier in Jacksonville until retiring in 2010. There will be a celebration of life on Saturday, Sept. 12, at the pavilion in Airport Park in Irnowood Township from noon to 2 p.m. with a small lunch....
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Tuesday, Sept. 8 Community Pickleball, 9-noon, Patterson Tennis Court, weather permitting. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Friends of the Mercer Public Library, 10 a.m., library, Mercer, Wis. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Golden Dragon. Bessemer American Legion Post 27, 5 p.m., American Legion,...
