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IRONWOOD, Mich. - Dorcas Elizabeth Drury, 84, of Ironwood, died Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, at home, following a courageous battle with Parkinson's disease. Dorcas (Bowman) was born in Detroit on Feb. 2, 1931. She graduated from high school at Mynderse Academy in Seneca Falls, N.Y. She then attended the University of Michigan and graduated summa cum laude from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Arts in history. Dorcas briefly worked for the National Security Agency and lived in Laurel, Md.,...
WOODSTOCK, Ill. - Carl W. Knutilla, 75, of McHenry, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015, at JourneyCare in Woodstock surrounded by his loving family. He was born March 9, 1940, in Ironwood, Mich., to Carl and Signe (Erickson) Knutilla. On June 25, 1966, he married Marlene Ann Lane at Wakefield United Methodist Church in Wakefield, Mich. Raised and educated in Michigan, Carl then served his country in the U.S. Army. He successfully completed courses at the U.S. Army Aviation School in aircraft...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Kathy Richards, 76, of Orchard Road, Ironwood Township, died peacefully Thursday morning, Nov. 19, 2015, at home, with her loving family by her side. The former Kathy Nelson was born Dec. 7, 1938, in Bessemer Township, daughter of the late Carl and Signe (Riipinen) Nelson. She attended Puritan and Roosevelt School and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in Ironwood with the Class of 1956. She was then employed as a secretary at Cherne Contracting Co. in...
Saturday, Nov. 21 Children’s Story Hour, 10 a.m., Marenisco Public Library. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2-5 p.m., Mercer School gymnasium. 715-776-4588. Sunday, Nov. 22 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Sharon Lutheran Church, Bessemer. area74.org....
IRONWOOD - Area residents may have noticed an ice rink being assembled at Depot Park in downtown Ironwood. Beginning Tuesday, the Borth brothers, Levi, 14; Josh, 19, and Nathan, 29, put on their working gloves and started assembling an ice rink. Nathan said he got the idea to build an outdoor ice rink after he moved back to Ironwood from New Hampshire. "I built one before on the East Coast," he said. "When I moved here about a year-and-a-half ago, there weren't many options to go skating," he...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Michigan U.S. Senators Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow are calling for “robust” funding in fiscal year 2016 for the U.S. Coast Guard to design and build a new heavy ice-breaker for the Great Lakes region. Heavy ice in recent winters has seriously impaired commercial shipping and economic activity on the Great Lakes. Last winter, cargo shipping decreased by 3.2 million tons, costing $355 million in lost revenue and nearly 2,000 jobs. “That depresses both the regional and national economy,” the Senators wrote in the letter. ...