Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — Terry Kryshak is unofficially in and Louis Miskovich out in the Bessemer City Council race after 51 missing votes were located Thursday. The unofficial results announced early Wednesday morning after Tuesday’s election for all five council seats had Miskovich earning a seat with the fifth most votes and Kryshak on the outside looking in, as the sixth highest vote-getter. Upon further review Thursday, city officials discovered an error was made in tallying the votes and Kryshak was act...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The former high school principal at the A.D. Johnston school in Bessemer, Dan VanderVelden, nominated Jamie Stiffarm, special education and peer-to-peer mentor teacher for LifeChanger of the Year before his departure last spring. The LifeChanger of the Year program annually recognizes K-12 educators and school employees across the country who make a difference in the lives of students by, "exemplifying excellence, positive influence, and...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners Wednesday approved a county indigent defense system plan that requests a grant of $112,254. The total indigent defense system cost is pegged at $214,386, with the local contribution set at $102,132. The county board approved the public defender plan without much comment. Commissioners were told the deadline for the application for funding for the program is Nov. 20. Gogebic County Circuit Court Judge Michael Pope earlier this year formed a c...
Friday, Nov. 10 Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer, Wis., Senior Center. Ironwood School Veterans Day Program, Ironwood School second floor gymnasium, 9:30-10:30 a.m.. Watersmeet School Veterans Day program, 10 a.m., Watersmeet school gymnasium. Mercer School Veterans Day program, 10 a.m., School gymnasium, Mercer, Wis. Double Trouble, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Serenity Center, Ironwood. Mercer Food Pantry, noon-1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Wis. Emergencies: 715-476-7655. Alcoholics Anonymous/Al-Anon, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood....
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Marjorie Lynn Southworth, 69, of Terre Haute, passed away Monday Nov. 6, 2017, at Terre Haute Regional Hospital. She was a Licensed Practical Nurse. Marjorie was born Feb. 19, 1948, in Ironwood, Mich., to Leonard Clarence Bluse and Margaret Ann (Suzik) Bluse. She is survived by her husband of 49 years, Frederick Carl Southworth; her mother, Margaret Bluse, of Hurley, Wis.; daughter, Heidi Pitakis (Kenny), of Maysville, Ky.; son, Jason Southworth (fiancée, Tina Strange), of...
