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Friday, Sept. 18 Gogebic Conservation District, 10 a.m., Natural Resources Center, Bessemer. 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. Scrabble at the Mercer, Wis., Library, 2:30-4:30 p.m. 715-476-2366. Third annual Flag Retirement Ceremony, 6 p.m., Veterans Memorial Park, Mercer, Wis. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EDT, Ontonagon Village Housing, 100 Cane...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER — Bluff Valley Park improvements are almost finished. During the summer, the city of Bessemer upgraded the park on South Moore Street by replacing outdated equipment. City manager Mike Uskiewicz said one more piece of exercise equipment is left to be installed, then renovations will be complete. Uskiewicz said children will notice a new play structure. The $26,000 structure comes with four slides, two climbing areas, two “steering whe...
Detectives with the Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team made nine arrests in three drug cases in the Escanaba and Ishpeming areas earlier this week. Maurice Shaunetz Gray, of South Bend, Ind., and Jennifer Savanguaongsavanh, of Milwaukee, were arrested by UPSET detectives on Monday after they were spotted at an Ishpeming hotel. According a news release, the pair hve been the targets of an UPSET investigation for the last several months. During the arrest, detectives located heroin, morphine, packaging materials and more than $4,200 in...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — An Oct. 13 meeting is planned on a request from the Eagle Bluff Golf Course board to have the city reduce the golf club’s annual $10,000 lease payment. The city council met Thursday and finance committee chair Joanne Bruneau announced the Oct. 13 session. Mayor Joe Pinardi said the golf club is experiencing financial difficulties. The city owns the golf course property and charges the golf club an annual lease fee. It’s not the first year the golf course representatives have come before the c...
IRON RIVER, Wis. - The storms stayed away as the Hurley girls and Ironwood boys took second at the first Indianhead Conference cross country meet of the season at Northern Pines Golf Course Thursday. Officials ran the varsity races prior to the junior high races with storms expected, but only a light rain came and went. Washburn defeated Hurley 32-45 in the girls race with South Shore in third with 48 points. Both the Midgettes and Castle Guards had two runners in the top 10, but Washburn placed...