Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - David Sievila passed away on Dec. 3, 2016, at Mesa Manor in Grand Junction. He was born in Ironwood, Mich. He attended Indiana University, where he met Sara K. Sievila, and they married in 1965. The two newlyweds moved to Pennsylvania, where they started a family and life-long friendships. During his life, he worked as a production manager in the manufacturing industry. He had a second career as a real estate agent, then enjoyed full-time retirement, traveling with his...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY - Donald Rick admitted Thursday to murdering Lisa Waldros in the fire that destroyed the Bear Trap Inn in Saxon. Rick, 44, who was living in Saxon at the time of the March 12 fire, entered a guilty plea to first-degree murder in Iron County Court. Five additional counts will be dismissed, but read into the record at sentencing on April 13. "I understand my conduct caused caused her death," Rick said when Iron County Judge Patrick Madden asked him...
Friday, Dec. 9 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. EDT, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Saturday, Dec. 10 Community Pickleball Paddlers, 8:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer School...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - "When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple, with a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me," were words of inspiration from the poem, "Warning," that motivated Sue Ellen Cooper to drop $7.50 for a red hat in 1997. The hat was empowering and signaled something so much more than growing old, so she gave one to her friend, as she turned 50ish. Within five years, the Red Hat Society grew to more than 40,000 chapters worldwide. The Upper...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] RAMSAY — The project to replace a significant amount of the water and sewer pipes in the city of Bessemer recently hit a roadblock, as the Gogebic Range Water Authority was informed the United States Department of Agriculture-Rural Development had an issue with the way the bid for the project was awarded. Charles Lawson, a project manager with the engineering firm C2AE and works with the authority, told the authority board at its Thursday meeting that Andrew Granskog — a USDA state engineer in Lan...
