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Articles from the October 6, 2018 edition


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  • Snyder: State to cover entire matching funds for UP June flooding

    Oct 6, 2018

    LANSING — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has authorized additional money to cover up to $7.4 million in matching funds Upper Peninsula grant recipients are required to pay under the Federal Emergency Management Agency public assistance program. June floods caused significant damage to portions of Gogebic, Houghton and Menominee counties. A preliminary damage assessment determined that public agencies in the three counties sustained nearly $30 million in damages that are eligible for public assistance relief. Local agencies must match 25 percent o...

  • A survivor's journey

    Oct 6, 2018

    By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - Sandy Morin believes in miracles and she has seen that miracle in her journey with cancer. One of Morin's passions is quilting. She belongs to quilt groups and often they have quilting retreats, where like- minded sewers spend a weekend looking at different patterns and styles of quilts and exchanging information. In December 2016, she was helping to ready the area for such a retreat, and helped to move a large television. By the next day her...

  • DOWNTOWN PLAIDURDAY

    Oct 6, 2018

  • Mary Ruth Cigallio

    Oct 6, 2018

    Mary Ruth Cigallio DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. - Mary Ruth Cigallio, 93, passed away peacefully on Sept. 30, 2018, at the Douglasville Nursing and Rehab Center in Douglasville. She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Al J. Cigallio, and son, Charles Peter Cigallio. She leaves behind her loving son, Edward J. Cigallio, his wife, Glenna G. Cigallio, and two granddaughters, Sarah Rachel and Mary Gwen. Mary was born to Peter and Nettie Jordan in Hurley, Wis., on June 26, 1925. She met her future hus...

  • Community calendar

    Oct 6, 2018

    Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, Oct. 6 Men’s Breakfast, 8 a.m., Havenwood Baptist Church, 501 Copper Street, Hurley. Union Station Food Pantry/Food Bank, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 252 E. Ayer St., Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2-5 p.m., Mercer School gym. 715-776-4588. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Sunday, Oct. 7 Alcoholics A...

  • Company holding Marenisco job fair Saturday, explores expanding to area

    Oct 6, 2018

    By STEVE NEWMAN [email protected] MARENISCO — Waupaca Foundry, a company subsidiary based in Waupaca, Wis., held a job fair Friday that continues today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Marenisco Town Hall, with the possibility of locating a plant on the Gogebic Range. According to Donna Kenney, of Marenisco Township, the company approached the township about a job fair two to three weeks ago. According to Richard Bouvette, township supervisor, Waupaca’s interest in locating in the area is “extremely serious” and they are “looking for a via...