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By JAN TUCKER [email protected] IRONWOOD - Roy Gotham is hanging up his black robes. The Gogebic and Ontonagon County Circuit Court Judge, Gotham announced this week he is retiring Dec. 31 after 25 years as circuit court judge. The retirement also marks his 42 years in the legal profession in both Ontonagon and Gogebic counties. Gotham expects Gov. Rick Snyder will appoint a successor in the next two weeks. He said both Mark McDonald and Michael Pope, area attorneys, have applied for the...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER - After much debate, the Bessemer City Council approved in a 3-2 vote of hiring Michael Korpela as the city's attorney Monday evening. According to information provided in the agenda, there were three applicants for the position, including Dean and Pope, P.C., Raymond J. O'Dea and Korpela. Dean and Pope, P.C. consists of Timothy M. Dean and Michael K. Pope and is based in Ironwood. In a letter to city clerk Jim Trudgeon, Korpela said he will...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The University of Wisconsin Iron County Extension office and the Michigan State Extension office in Bessemer are partnering to offer area teens babysitter training classes beginning in January. The training is based on the curriculum of “operation military kids,” a 4-H program serving military youth with deployed parents, according to Neil Klemme, a youth development agent with the Iron County office. Klemme said the training is a relatively comprehensive program, covering everything from...
Tuesday, Dec. 8 Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Tiny Tot Story Hour, 10 a.m., Wakefield Public Library. Friends of the Mercer Public Library, 10 a.m., library, Mercer, Wis. Poetry Writing Group, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Carnegie Library. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Bessemer American Legion Post 27, 5 p.m., American Legion, Bessemer. Ironwood Fifth Grade Band Concert, 6 p.m., Luther L. Wright elementary gym. Ironwood American...
WAKEFIELD, Mich. - Florence Nightingale (Borseth) Daniels, 90, a long-time resident of Wakefield, passed away Saturday morning, Dec. 5, 2015, at her home, with her loving family by her side. Florence was born on May 12, 1925, in Marquette, a daughter of Adolph and Carlotta Mae (Hargrave) Borseth. Florence was born premature, weighing just three pounds and was not expected to live. She was named Florence Nightingale by the nurses and baptized into Christian life. She lived in the town of Lake...
MERCER, Wis. - Myrtle Ann "Myrt" Miller, 92, of Mercer, died peacefully early Friday morning, Dec. 4, 2015, at home, with her loving family by her side. The former Myrtle Goettsche was born July 21, 1923, in Chicago, daughter of the late Herman and Anna (Kramer) Goettsche, and graduated from Steinmetz High School there in 1941. She then was employed as a receptionist in a physician's office in Cicero, Ill. prior to her marriage to Robert G."Bob" Miller on April 15, 1944, in Maywood, Ill. Bob...
BESSEMER, Mich. – Roger Andrew Lackman, 89, of Bessemer, passed away Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, at his home. Roger was born on May 2, 1926, in Waterbury, Conn., the youngest of nine children to Edward Roach and Rena Delight (Buell) Lackman. He grew up in Thomaston, Conn. Roger served as a private in the 104th Infantry Division (Timberwolves) in Germany during the latter part of World War II. After the war, he moved to Chicago and attended Roosevelt University. While there, Roger met his future w...