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Articles from the October 22, 2018 edition


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  • Wolverine Trails ski club gathers for Sunday fellowship

    Oct 22, 2018

    By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] IRONWOOD - Members of the Wolverine Trails ski club gathered with guests Sunday at their annual Land Owner Appreciation Day, held in the club chalet in North Ironwood. The group enjoyed fellowship, along with grilled picnic meats, potluck dishes, dessert and coffee. As an added attraction, food educator Deb Leonard, from the University of Wisconsin Extension, also brought a blender bike. The bike includes a blender that works via the biker's foot power,...

  • United Way kicks off fundraising drive with dinner

    Oct 22, 2018

    By STEVE NEWMAN [email protected] IRONWOOD - Bobbi Hautala was hammering nails into signs she made and brought her own pallets to nail the signs into. The signs were put up Sunday afternoon in advance of the annual United Way fundraising dinner held at the Breakwater Restaurant. Hautala worked to get donations and funds for the event and was hustling to bring in bags of baked goods as well as installing signage. She was working as part of the committee that organizes this event. She was...

  • Snowplows respond to Saturday's snow

    Oct 22, 2018

    By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The snow and freezing rain that blanketed the Gogebic Range on Saturday morning was part of a pattern of a weather front that blew through the Midwest. At the same time an inch or two of snow was falling here, a mini blizzard had covered the field in Madison around noon for the Badgers-Illinois football game and the Michigan-Michigan State contest had to be delayed for more than an hour because of lightning. Strong winds in excess of 30 mph that whipped through the Range made the 3...

  • Community calendar

    Oct 22, 2018

    Monday, Oct. 22 Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, Wis. 715-561-4450. Tai Chi for Health and Balance, 9 a.m., Mercer Community Center. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. After School Halloween Crafts, 3:30 p.m., Mercer Public Library. Beginner Finnish language class, 3:30 p.m., Little Finland, Kimball. Advanced Finnish language class, 4:30 p.m., Little Finland, Kimball. Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30 p.m., All Saints Lutheran Church, Wakefield. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Our... Full story