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Articles from the October 19, 2016 edition


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  • All Saints Catholic school playground gets new look

    Oct 19, 2016

    IRONWOOD - All Saints Academy's playground is getting a new look. Workers were pouring concrete footings around new pieces of bright, primary colored slides, swings and climbing structures Tuesday afternoon. Lead teacher Emily Lightfoot said the students are getting excited to play on the new equipment. The old equipment, which was removed a few weeks ago, was showing its age and needed replacement, said Lightfoot. But the addition of an infants and toddlers program at the school changed the...

  • Saxon session set on lake trout regulations

    Oct 19, 2016

    By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] SAXON, Wis. - A public meeting on the next steps to help recover lake trout populations in Lake Superior is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 27, at the Saxon Community Center. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will also hold a meeting at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center in Ashland on Tuesday, Oct. 25. A controversial emergency rule that expired Sept. 30 limited Saxon Harbor area fishermen to a daily bag limit of three lakers - two fish...

  • Planning committee to decide future of dwelling code

    Oct 19, 2016

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Comprehensive Planning/Land and Zoning Committee will need to decide what to do with the county’s uniformed dwelling code program, after Zoning Administrator Tom Bergman informed the committee Tuesday that the person handling inspections for the program would no longer be able to continue his work. Bergman said Rick Clem, who the county contracted with for inspection services, has informed Bergman that his workload is too much to continue serving Iron County along with the...

  • Community Calendar

    Oct 19, 2016

    Wednesday, Oct. 19 Christian Men of the Northland, 6:30 a.m., Uptown Cafe, Ironwood. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution, 9-10 a.m., Pioneer Park Apartments, Ironwood. 906-932-4200. Mercer Area Play Group, 9:30-11 a.m., Mercer, Wis., Public Library. 715-476-2366. Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. DOVE Support Group, noon-2 p.m. 906-932-4990. Ironwood/Hurley Rotary Club, 12:15 p.m., Elk and Hound Restaurant, Ironwood. Iron County Historical Society, 1 p.m...

  • David S. Barto

    Oct 19, 2016

    MARQUETTE, Mich. - David S. Barto, 83, of Marquette, passed away early Monday morning, Oct. 17, 2016, at U.P. Health System-Marquette with his loving wife and family at his side. David was born on July 2, 1933, in Ironwood to the late Stanley and Rose (Forte) Barto. He attended Montreal Elementary and the Roosevelt School in Montreal, Wis. He graduated from Lincoln High School in Hurley, Wis., in 1951. From 1954-56, David proudly served his country with the U.S. Army in Germany with the 38th...