Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Editor's note: The Daily Globe is counting down the Gogebic Range's top five stories of 2017 each day this week. The editorial department staff sat down and came up with its annual list, naming Highland Copper's effort to resume copper mining in the western Upper Peninusla. as the fifth-place story of the year. By RICHARD JENKINS rjenkins@yourdailyglobe.com Those wanting to see the return of copper mining to the western Upper Peninsula were excited to hear the news of Highland Copper's efforts...
By RALPH ANSAMI ransami@yourdailyglobe.com Iron County residents, like people all across Wisconsin, will notice a change in their 2018 property tax bills. At a time of the year when the tax bills arrive in the mail like a lump of coal, just as Christmas cards are ending, there’ll be a little bit of relief for Wisconsin residents this year. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said the state property tax levy has been eliminated. Area residents pay school, county, town or city and vocational school taxes, but the state tax will no longer be on the b...
By IAN MINIELLY iminielly@yourdailyglobe.com UPSON, Wis. - David Lundberg, owner of the Whitecap Mountains Ski and Golf Resort in Upson said he bought the location in 1965 when all it had was two "T-Bar lifts and a building." Lundberg was fresh out of Fuller Seminary in California as a 28 year old husband and father of three, but he had enough faith to move Whitecap's three mountains over the last 50 years. Lundberg said he bought a chain saw first and went to work clearing ski runs and...
Tuesday, Dec. 26 Pickleball, 10 a.m. to noon, Ironwood Memorial Building. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Breakfast For Your Brain, 10 a.m., Mercer, Wis., Community Center. 715-561-2695. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Elk and Hound. Woods and Blooms Garden Club, 6:30 p.m., Haines Civic Center, Mercer, Wis. Life Support Group, 6:30 p.m., Woodland Church, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Episc...
