Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors passed the county’s 2021 budget in a special meeting at the Iron County Memorial Building Tuesday, including a 50-cent-per-hour raise for county employees. The budget had originally included a 25-cent raise, however, the board voted 10-2 to raise that amount to 50 cents. Board members Opal Roberts and Ken Saari voted against the measure. Supervisors Karl Krall, Scott Erickson and Bill Thomas weren’t at the meeting. The decision to increase the raise... Full story
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] ERWIN TOWNSHIP - The East End School, a turn of the century one-room school house built in 1915, will soon be the new home of the Erwin Township Historical Society's artifact museum, genealogy research center and community meeting place. Historical society president Tom Pelissero said they are looking not only to create a museum, but to make an asset for the community. "If we are going to tell future generations about the history we should have a home i...
BESSEMER — A Wakefield man is in custody after being accused of being involved in a home invasion and several car break-ins in the city of Bessemer last week. Troopers from the Michigan State Police’s Wakefield Post were dispatched to the scene of an alleged home invasion in Bessemer on Nov. 6. A home and a car had both been entered, according to a MSP news release, where two purses and roughly $245 were allegedly stolen. The Gogebic County Sheriff’s Office had received reports of four other car break-ins in Bessemer around this time, accor...
DULUTH, Minn. - William Edward Allen Holst, 93, of Ironwood Township, Michigan, passed away peacefully at St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth, on Nov. 4, 2020. He was born on June 10, 1927, son of Oscar and Ida (Berg) Holst. He attended A.L. Norrie School and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in Ironwood, Michigan, in the class of 1945. Bill joined the U.S. Navy in May 1945, and was stationed in Hawaii for the duration of the war. He was discharged in July 1946. Bill worked at Penokee and... Full story
DULUTH, Minn. — Mark R. Stevens, 66, of Marengo, Wisconsin, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, at the St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth, due to complications of IPF — idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He was born on April 14, 1954, in Ashland, Wisconsin, the son of Ernest and Lillian (Mackey) Stevens. Mark graduated from Ashland High School in 1972. He worked most of his life as a security guard at Columbia Forest Products in Mellen, Wisconsin. Mark enjoyed playing horseshoes and pitched in numerous world championships throughout the count... Full story
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Friday, Nov. 13 Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer Senior Center. 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. area74.org. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EST, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org.... Full story