Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By JAN TUCKER jantuck@jamadots.com WHITE PINE — Refinery operations could begin as soon as the first quarter of 2021 with the announcement Wednesday that Northern Initiatives has received a $700,000 grant award to support Phase 2 development of the White Pine Refinery at the former White Pine Mine. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Community Services made the announcement as part of its Community Economic Development Program. The White Pine Copper Refinery Inc. and PM P...
By TOM LAVENTURE tlaventure@yourdailyglobe.com BESSEMER — Gogebic County will need to hire an attorney administrator to appoint lawyers for indigent defendants now that the judiciary is barred from that role, according to a presentation at the Wednesday meeting of the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners. Appearing virtually from Ogemaw County, attorney Melissa Wangler, the Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan regional manager for the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission, said the MIDC is implementing the new Standard 5 that was approved b...
By CHARITY SMITH csmith@yourdailyglobe.com MERCER, Wis. — The Toys for All program, which benefits children of low income families in the Mercer school system, is gearing up for distribution day on Dec. 19 at 9 a.m. “We have 41 children that we have gotten coats and boots and snow-pants, Christmas outfits and toys for,” said Louise Minisan of the Mercer Food Pantry. She said that the program focuses on warm clothing, but there are lots of toys for the children, too. “There are literally garbage bags that I use to pack all the toys in and som...
IRONWOOD, Mich. - AnnaMae F. (Kurta) Toth, 91, of Ironwood passed away on Dec. 8, 2020, at Westgate Nursing, Rehabilitation and Assisted Living Community in Ironwood. She was born on March 24, 1929, in Ironwood, the daughter of Joseph and Anna (Sopko) Kurta. She attended local schools and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in 1947. On Sept. 13, 1947, AnnaMae married George V. Toth. He preceded her in death on Oct. 18, 1995. She ran the hot lunch program at Ironwood Catholic grade...
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Friday, Dec. 11 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....
