Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD - While many Ironwood students were enjoying a day off on Friday, the beginning of the second marking period, senior Adam Magdziak and his friends volunteered their time in the classroom. Magdziak, a member of Boy Scout Troop 323, is volunteering as part of his Eagle Scout project. He addressed the Ironwood Area Schools Board of Education last month to see if he could paint one of the classrooms at Sleight Elementary. The room hadn't been painted in a decade, and Magdziak wanted to...
MARENISCO - Handmade Christmas gifts abounded at the second annual Marenisco Library Craft Fair and Luncheon on Saturday at the Marenisco Township Hall. Along with an array of baked goods, candies, jellies and jams, shoppers could pick from beach glass jewelry from Ontonagon, photography from White Pine, or yak down hats from Bergland. Other unique items included stained glass, special fabric envelopes for microwaving baked potatoes, jewelry and a wide variety of knit goods. Yak down is as soft...
(AP) - Skydiving instructor Mike Robinson was at 12,000 feet, just seconds away from his fourth and final jump of the day, when a second plane carrying other skydivers struck the aircraft he was in, sending them all tumbling toward the ground. None of the nine skydivers or two pilots sustained serious injury when the two planes collided in midair Saturday evening in far northwest Wisconsin near Lake Superior. Officials with the Federal Aviation Administration were in the area Sunday talking to...
IRONWOOD - Fourth and fifth grade students from Northwoods Christian Academy of Hurley recently learned about money management and banking skills during a trip to Wells Fargo Bank in Ironwood. Tina Abrolat, customer sales and service representative, presented the "Hands-on Banking" program to students. The children learned about savings accounts, how to write a check and balance a checkbook, and the value of responsible credit. "This is an excellent, hands-on, interactive and fun program," teach...
MERCER, Wis. - Harry J. "Bud" Guild, 83, of West County J, Mercer died peacefully Sunday evening, Oct. 27, 2013, at home. He was born Dec. 16, 1929, in Harvey, Ill., son of the late Harry F. and Lucille (O'Brien) Guild. Bud attended Thornton Township schools and graduated from the Thornton High School with the class of 1947. He served in the U.S. Army from July 1, 1947, until May 27, 1949, with the 208th Military Police Company at Fort Shafter, Hawaii. Bud was employed as an over-the-road truck...
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Betty R. Studden, 91, a native of Iron Belt, Wis., died Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, at the Royale Health Care Center in Santa Ana. The former Betty R. Peterson was born Feb. 23, 1922, in Iron Belt, daughter of the late Charles E. and Theresa (Rosa) Peterson, Sr., and graduated from Iron Belt High School with the Class of 1939. Betty worked as a cashier at the General Motors Training Center in California from 1964 to 1971. From 1971 until her retirement in 1984, she worked in San...