Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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BESSEMER - Heroin use on the Gogebic Range has reached the "epidemic" stage, taking over from meth as the preferred illegal drug of choice, the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners learned Wednesday. Three local law enforcement officers addressed the county board on the deadly problem, which Michigan State Patrol Wakefield Post Commander Lt. Don Horn said will "affect all of us in one way or another." Jerry Mazurek, an MSP trooper, said the heroin comes to the area mostly from Wausau,...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER - As school gets under way, the Gogebic County 4-H Tech Wizards have much planned for September. Coming up on Tuesday at A.D. Johnston High School from 4 to 6 p.m., program manager Monie Shackleford said children will be able to build Lego robots. "It's really fun," she said. "You can program them to move around and speak." By building them, Shackleford said children learn how to follow directions, program computers and develop building...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — After the sticker shock wore off, the members of the Iron County Board of Supervisors Finance Committee voted 4-1 Thursday to move forward with the purchase of two dispatcher consoles for the sheriff’s department. The purchase will cost around $199,799 — although the price would have increased another $50,000 if the county doesn’t make the purchase prior to Nov. 21 — according to information presented to the committee. “We can ignore the $50,000, but we can’t ignore the fact we need the (...
Friday, Sept. 11 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. EDT, Ontonagon Village Housing, 100 Cane Court, Ontonagon. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Saturday, Sept. 12 Friends of the Ironwood Carnegie Library, 10 a.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem...
WOODRUFF, Wis. - Marjorie A. "Marge" Wolf, 92, of Beachway Drive, Mercer, Wis., passed away Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, in Woodruff. She was born July 30, 1923, in Carbondale, Mich., daughter of the late George and Clara (Wagner) Jurgens. She was the first baby baptized at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Carbondale, where she was also confirmed and married. Marge attended Carbondale schools and evening business classes in Milwaukee. She served for four years in the National Office of the Wisconsin...