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Articles from the September 19, 2019 edition


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  • DPI releases assessment scores

    Sep 19, 2019

    By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY, Wisc. — The results of the Wisconsin Student Assessment System exams released Monday showed slight decreases in English language arts and mathematics, but not across the board, according to the state Department of Public Instruction. The assessment from the 2018-19 school year includes the Forward Exam for grades three through eight, the ACT Aspire for grades nine and 10, the ACT with writing in grade 11, and the Dynamic Learning Maps given across all tested grades to students with the m...

  • Demolition grant takes down Wagars restaurant, bar

    Sep 19, 2019

    By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - The former Wagars restaurant and bar is going down. Crews and big equipment from the Pesta Construction Company started the demolition of the building Monday. The restaurant and bar were originally two buildings but a door was created between them and remodeled to look like one structure. The village now owns the property and obtained a Michigan Land Bank Authority Rural Demolition Grant to tear it down. The $50,000 grant will not pay for the...

  • Arts Midwest World Fest, Paulo Padilha brings Brazil to area students

    Sep 19, 2019

    By KIM E. STROM [email protected] IRONWOOD - Next week the Historic Ironwood Theatre will host one of four international groups as part of the Arts Midwest World Fest Sept. 23-28. Paulo Padilha e Bando from Brazil will give workshops in local schools and will end the week with a performance at the theatre on Saturday, Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. "The group...spends much of the week in schools and other community locations, sharing their music through workshops," said theatre president Zona Wick...

  • Community calendar

    Sep 19, 2019

    Thursday, Sept. 19 Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution for seniors, Bergland Lake Gogebic Senior Center, 9:45-10 a.m. EDT; White Pine Porcupine Mountain Senior Center, 10:20-10:35 a.m. EDT; Ontonagon Holy Family Catholic Church, 11-11:45 a.m. EDT; Mass City Resource Center, 1:15-1:45 p.m. EDT. Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Patterson courts or Ironwood Memorial Building. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Wakefield City Hall; 1-2 p.m., Watersmeet Township; 2:45-3:15 p.m., Marenisco Township.... Full story