Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - Record rainfall for the 24-hour period to 7 a.m. Wednesday has sent Ironwood's 2018 precipitation total to nearly 11 inches above average. A total of 2.33 inches fell at the Gogebic-Iron Wastewater Treatment Plant off Cloverland Drive, setting an Oct. 10 record covering the past 117 years. At 2:20 a.m. Wednesday, wastewater that had not received full treatment was being released into the Montreal River to prevent sewage backups into homes. A...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — It appears Gogebic County will receive a $650,000 fire and rescue vehicle for the Gogebic-Iron Airport at a cost of $8,125. The county board of supervisors on Wednesday approved a resolution authorizing a funding application for the vehicle. Airport manager Mike Harma noted a federal grant will cover most of the costs of the 1,500-gallon fire truck. Iron and Gogebic counties will split the local $16,250 match. County board member Joe Bonovetz, of Bessemer, said an emergency exercise in t...
BESSEMER — Gogebic County Emergency Government Coordinator Jim Loeper told the county board of supervisors Wednesday there were high water issues throughout the county, including possible flooding of the Presque Isle River in the Marenisco area. While Loeper said the greatest threat of flooding may have passed, as people left the 5 p.m. county board meeting it was pouring heavily outside the courthouse in Bessemer, where side streets that are under construction had flooded. Loeper said countywide rainfall from the past few days totaled 4 i...
Thursday, Oct. 11 Pickleball, 9-11 a.m. Hemlock Avenue tennis courts, if raining, 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. 906-667-1110. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Red Hat Society Northwoods Divas, noon, luncheon, Rigoni’s Inn on Ayer Street in Ironwood. RSVP 906-667-0116. Invent@NMU Kiosk, noon-2 p.m., Student Center, Gogebic Community College. Grief Support G...
WAKEFIELD, Mich - Margaurite E. Wiele, 88, of Ironwood, passed away on Oct. 8, 2018. Margaurite was born on May 12, 1930, in Edgeley, North Dakota, to Leonard and Antoinetta (Oleson) Orness. After graduation from high school in Kingsford, she attended the Lutheran Bible Institute in Minneapolis. On June 14, 1950, she married Kenneth W. Wiele in Kingsford. After living in Ann Arbor, for several years the couple moved to Bessemer, where Ken began his teaching career in the Bessemer and later the...