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By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — When winter arrives Fran Frye and Mark Stoeger leave Appleton, Wisconsin for the slopes of the Upper Peninsula. The two rent a condo and along with season passes they are ski patrol volunteers at Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort. “It’s our first day at Powderhorn but not our first day skiing this year,” Frye said Monday. “We ski patrol at Pine Mountain and we were there a little while yesterday.” The conditions were perfect, sh...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The Wakefield-Marenisco Board of Education voted Monday night to begin a pass / fail system for foreign language courses, which the curriculum now requires as part of state requirements. The unanimous vote followed an appeal by guidance counselor Mark Lane, who also leads online education at the Wakefield-Marenisco K-12 School in Wakefield. Lane explained that foreign language courses are available only through the Michigan Virtual Learning Res...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] Watersmeet Township — A Wisconsin man died Saturday after his snowmobile struck a downed tree near Watersmeet Township, according to Lac Vieux Desert Tribal Police Department. The crash occurred at 7:30 p.m., on Trail No. 2, according to Sgt. Nick Christ in a phone interview Monday. A tree had fallen on the trail during the day and it went unreported, the rider, a 54-year-old Almond, Wisconsin man was snowmobiling at night and struck the fallen tree, he said. “He died at the scene,” Christ said,...
Tuesday, Dec. 17 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Ironwood Memorial Building. Iron-Gogebic Integrated Family Services, 9-10:30 a.m., Iron County Courthouse, Hurley. 906-663-4045 or 715-561-2191. Wisconsin Veterans Employment Services Representative, 9-11:30 a.m., veterans service office, Hurley. 715-392-7808. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution for seniors, Pioneer Park Apartments tenants only, Ironwood, 9-10 a.m.; Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood, parking lot, 10:30-11:15 a.m.; Mill Trace Apartments,... Full story
MARQUETTE, Mich. - Dennis Patrick Hill, 78, entered eternal life on Dec. 12, 2019, in Marquette, following complications from advanced cancers. Born on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1940, in Wakefield, and formerly of Kivela Road, Negaunee, he is survived by daughters, Jennifer (Cedric) Ballarin of Bloomfield Hills, and Robyn (Michael) Clancy of Woodstock, Ga.; granddaughters, Axelle and Ainsley Ballarin, and Elle and Caroline Clancy; sisters, Nancy (George, deceased) Mitchell, Rose (Dewey) Maki;... Full story
ONTONAGON, Mich. — Sharon Lee (Kalember) Laingren, 81, of Bergland, died Thursday, Dec. 11, 2019, at the Aspirus Long Term Care Facility. The former Sharon Lee Kalember was born Nov. 2, 1938, in Bergland, daughter of the late Peter and Gladys Kalember. She attended Bergland Schools. She married Jalmer Laingren in Bergland. He survives her along with son, Richard (Jody), of Madison, Wis.; and grandson, Brock (Nichole), of Ashland, Wis. She is also survived by two sisters, Faye (Russell) Nordine, of Bergland, Lynn (Mike) Borseth, of Tampa Bay, F... Full story