Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Public Safety Department’s fire officer on Monday was investigating a late Saturday night fire that gutted a downtown church. Brandon Snyder said the IPSD received an 11:44 p.m. call that there was a structure fire in the area of Lutey’s Flower Shop, near Ayer Street. It was determined the fire was coming from Peace Lutheran Church at 102 S. Mansfield St., across the street from Lutey’s. Snyder said there were flames and smoke coming out of the east side of the wood-fr...
IRONWOOD — Sometimes collaborations lead to creations and that was the case for local artists Peg Sandin and Amanda Szot. The duo will display pieces at the Downtown Art Place until the end of October. According to Sandin, some of the pieces came together after Szot found them unfinished. “I had some unfinished pieces and Amanda finished them for me,” Sandin said. “We used our very favorite things we like to paint and sculpt.” Some of Sandin’s paintings were of rocks from the shores of Lake Sup...
MADISON, Wis. — The Mercer School is one of 167 across the state to be honored with a Wisconsin Title I School of Recognition award today in Madison, through the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. School board members Kelly Kohegyi and Deanna Pierpont traveled to the state capital to receive the award from state superintendent of public instruction Tony Evers. Award recipients were classified into three sections, including “high achieving schools,” “high progress schools” and “beating the odds schools.” All of the awards winners recei...
IRONWOOD, Mich. — Joseph C. Maslanka Sr., 78, of Montreal, Wis., died Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, surrounded by his loving family, at Aspirus Grand View Hospital in Ironwood, following a courageous battle with cancer. Joe was born Nov. 4, 1934, in Bessemer, son of the late Stanley and Bernice (Hlopek) Maslanka, and graduated from A.D. Johnston High School in 1952. He entered the U.S. Air Force on March 27, 1953, serving in England and Germany during the Korean War, and received the National Defense S...
MARQUETTE, Mich. — Kenneth “R.C.” Aho, 84, of Ironwood, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in Marquette. He was born on Nov. 2, 1928, in Stambaugh, son of the late John and Mary (Waldros) Aho. Kenneth attended Ironwood schools, graduating from Luther L. Wright High School with the class of 1946. He served in the United States Air Force from 1950 until 1954. He served in Colorado, New York City, Newfoundland and Greenland. In 1951, he attended school at Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado, and g...
WAUSAU, Wis. — Marsha Faith Burroughs, born Nov. 8, 1969, passed away Sept. 30, 2013, at Aspirus Wausau Hospital due to cardiac arrest following emergency surgery. Marsha is survived by her daughter, Jenna, of Topaz, Mich.; her parents, Ed and Ann Burroughs, of Bruce Crossing, Mich.; three sisters: Laura (Elden) Burke, of Ontonagon, Mich., Karen (Greg) Pepin, of Kingsford, Mich., and Jennifer (Jamie) Jackman, of Kalkaska, Mich.; brother, Curtis (Jennifer) Burroughs, of Lake Linden, Mich.; as well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. M...
To the Editor: It has recently been brought to our attention that there is a petition circulating through the communities of Bessemer and Wakefield recommending putting the consolidation of Bessemer and Wakefield-Marenisco school districts onto the ballot for a May 2014 election. While any citizen may circulate a petition on any topic, no one has the right to claim support for the petition’s intent when that support has not been given. The person attempting to collect signatures to put consolidation onto the May ballot has indicated the W...
