Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The wait is over. For the first time since the end of May, drivers on M-28 could use the bridge over Jackson Creek Monday afternoon. The bridge east of Wakefield had been expected to reopen Wednesday after the Michigan Department of Transportation announced Friday it was pushing back the prior target date of the weekend due to "rainy weather and saturated ground conditions." However, according to MDOT spokesman Dan Weingarten, work...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - Edwin Hokans was a shop teacher at the Ontonagon School in the 1930s when he and his wife, Esther, decided to build a cabin on their property one and one-half miles outside of Ontonagon. One cabin led to another and eventually a motel was added, with the complex known as Hokans Cabins and Motel. Since that time, with its location on Lake Superior, the cabins have changed hands many times. All the owners since Edwin Hokans Sr. gathered at the...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — An 81-year-old Kimball, Wis., man appeared in court Monday morning on two threat counts and an additional count of making a terroristic threat. Robert “Barrel Bob” Gollubske is charged with threatening to blow up both the Iron County Courthouse in Hurley in 2013 and the Northwoods Paving (Mathy Construction) asphalt plant in Kimball in 2016. Iron County Judge Patrick Madden advised Gollubske to seek representation through the public defender’s office. Gollubske said he had sought to contact...
Tuesday, Oct. 30 Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Pickleball, 9-11 a.m. Hemlock Avenue tennis courts, if raining, Ironwood Memorial Building. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Mike Beno, editor of “Our Wisconsin,” 7 p.m., Mercer Public Library. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Golden Dragon. Little Finland chorus practice for Christmas concert, 6 p.m...
HURLEY, Wis. – Edith Irene Saari, 95, died on Oct. 27, 2018 in Hurley. Edith was born in Ironwood, Mich. to John Sigfrid and Jennie Maria (Luoma) Berg on June 29, 1923. She attended local schools and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in 1940. On January 26, 1946, she married Eugene Saari, and they lived in Milwaukee until moving "back home" to the Saari family farm in Kimball, Wisc. in July, 1976. Edith worked for Allis Chalmers in research, at GE X-Ray and Johnson Control in r...
