Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD - Local residents sat down for a community Christmas meal at Woodland Church in Ironwood Wednesday. This is the third year the event has taken place, and according to Pastor Mike Hill, the event gets more popular each year. There is no cost for people to attend the meal, and Hill said helping people was an "indescribable good feeling." "I truly believe this is what God would have us do," Hill said. "And that is taking care of each other." Attendees dined on ham, turkey, mashed...
IRONWOOD - Developments centered on Ironwood's Depot Park, including visits from Gov. Rick Snyder and Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, were voted the Daily Globe's No. 5 story of the year. When Calley visited Jacquart Fabric Products in the industrial park, Bob Jacquart, CEO, asked for a show of hands of people in the crowd who had worked on Depot Park improvements. About 30 hands shot up, or half of those at the gathering. Bricks and sod were placed at the Depot, a pavilion was constructed and a...
I was still fiddling with the focus knob on the spotting scope when the duck flipped up and dove for the bottom of the pond. "Uh oh, that's no mallard," I thought, as I struggled to bring the edge between the open water and the snow-covered ice into sharp focus. Through the binoculars, it appeared the duck out on the Bessemer Area Wastewater Treatment pond might be a mallard, but it was really too far to tell at 10 power. Mallards are dabblers, not divers, and this duck was still underwater...
LITCHFIELD, Maine (AP) - Utility crews from Maine to Michigan and into Canada worked Wednesday to restore power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses left in the dark by last weekend's ice storm, and people slowly trickled out of shelters to spend Christmas Day at their finally warm homes. But not everyone was so lucky, including Ashley Walter, who was forced to spend Christmas at a shelter in a school in Litchfield with her husband, Jacob Walter, and their month-old daughter, Leah....
UPSON, Wis. - While some people head home for the holidays, others head out on vacation. Plenty of early season snow has made the area's ski hills, cross country trails and snowmobile trails perfect for a holiday getaway. By Christmas Day, the area had received 57.4 inches of snow for the season, including 24.6 inches in the month of December. All the area ski hills were reporting most, if not all, of their runs open. Numerous individuals celebrated Christmas Eve by skiing and snowboarding at Wh...
ONTONAGON, Mich. - Robert "Bob" Frank Giesen, 74, of Ontonagon, passed away on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013, from complications of Alzheimer's disease. Robert "Bob" was born in New Prague, Minn., on Jan. 27, 1939. He graduated from New Prague High School and attended the University of Minnesota. Bob enlisted in the United States Army and served in Okinawa, Japan, and Albuquerque, N.M. He later attended the Minneapolis-St. Paul Seminary, where he was ordained a Catholic deacon in 1980. Robert "Bob" was...
KENOSHA, Wis. - Fred E. Olson, 73, of Kenosha, formerly of Bessemer, Mich., died Friday, Dec. 20, 2013, in Kenosha. He was born Nov. 13, 1940, in Ironwood, Mich., son of the late Carl and Eva (Erickson) Olson. He attended Bessemer schools and graduated from A.D. Johnston High School with the class of 1959. Fred was employed in Kenosha at Mack-White before entering the Army and serving in France. After serving his country, he returned to Kenosha and was employed at Abbott Laboratory until...