Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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BESSEMER - The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners on a 5-1 vote approved a letter of "strong" support Wednesday for plans to develop a convention center-casino at Indianhead Mountain in Wakefield. The action came after a motion from commissioner George Peterson, of Watersmeet. The lone dissenting vote was from Joe Bonovetz, of Bessemer, who said he would like to see a copy of the letter of support before voting on it. The board was urged to support the project by Wakefield Township Chairman...
IRONWOOD - Forty local girls learned about Women in Welding on Tuesday and Wednesday through the career and technical education program through the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District. Students from the Ontonagon, Ewen-Trout Creek, Ironwood, Bessemer and Wakefield-Marenisco school districts attended the event in Ontonagon and at Luther L. Wright School in Ironwood. According to Paulette Niemi, CTE program coordinator, the event is very popular with students, but has to be limited due...
EWEN – Family and friends of Ewen-Trout Creek's junior high and high school students gathered for the annual Christmas concert on Wednesday night. The concert began with a short introduction and welcome by band and choir director, Brad Besonen, before the Jr./Sr. high school band began to play. The 51-member band played six different tunes, including "Away in a Manger," "Baby, it's Cold Outside" and "Noel." Jenna Hash and Noah Nordine on alto saxophone, Jack Boro on tenor saxophone and Cree K...
To the editor, An editorial from a Battle Creek newspaper several days ago that was published in the Daily Globe continued the same old tired line that we “can’t deport 10 million/15 million (pick the number du jour) illegal aliens,” which is utter nonsense as that wouldn’t be necessary for the majority of them. The economic downturn that this country has endured for the last several years has resulted in the return of many millions of illegals to their home countries according to numerous sources, including Reuters and USA Today. And they re...
