Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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HURLEY - Around 20 volunteers from different local organizations and agencies braved cold, rainy weather to help plant trees across the city of Hurley on Tuesday. The planting is part of a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Urban Forestry Start-Up Grant. Hurley received 17 trees of different varieties, including white and red oak and ironwood. Trees were planted along Maple and Poplar streets and Sixth and Seventh avenues. According to Don Kissinger, regional urban forestry coordinator...
After the most brutal winter in the past 110 years in Ironwood, Gogebic Range residents wouldn't mind a reprieve from the bitter cold for the next five months. The Farmers Almanac isn't predicting any relief, however. The magazine predicts a "shivery and shovely" winter of 2014-15. For its two-month forecast in the Great Lakes states, the almanac predicts a lot of wet weather for October, followed by a Nov. 8-19 period that could produce plenty of wet snow and some frigid temperatures. For the e...
HURLEY - The Board of Directors for the Aging Unit of Iron County met Wednesday to discuss its budget and intend to give the unit's employees wage increases, if it gets a larger allocation from the county. The Aging Unit's typical county allocation is $106,000. The unit will ask for an additional $15,000 for next year's budget, and a one time request of $4,000 for this year's budget to help pay off its debt for a new roof on the Hurley Senior Center. The Aging Unit's budget proposal, which was...
MARION, Iowa - Richard A. Eidemiller, 93, of Cedar Rapids, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, at the Bickford Cottage in Marion. Richard was born Sept. 29, 1921, in Golf, Ill., the son of Howard and Marguerite (Adams) Eidemiller. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. On March 2, 1943, he married Gloria S. Swanson in Stockton, Calif. Dick was a man of several interests and abilities. Some of his many endeavors were, a B29 pilot in WWII, owning a Harley Davidson dealership...
