Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] Boom! Bang! Kaboom! Fourth of July celebrations have already started across the region, but they will kick into high gear the next few days. Bessemer's week of revelry included a lot of food, music, fun and games over the weekend. Things will continue apace this evening with a long list of games and other activities for young and old on Sophie Street. Among the activities will be street bowling at 6 p.m., a children's dance at 7, water balloon toss...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] BESSEMER — The Bessemer City Council on Monday approved a plywood manufacturer’s request to form an industrial development district as a possible tax incentive for an addition and upgrade at 1000 Yale Ave., Bessemer. The council approved 4-0 to adopt Resolution No. 2017-30 following a public hearing. Mayor Adam Zak was not present. The estimated $3 million dollar project includes a $1.5 million building and $1.5 million for machinery that improves the veneer drying process, said David McD...
Tuesday, July 2 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Patterson courts or Ironwood Memorial Building. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Golden Dragon. Wakefield Seniors, noon, Wakefield Senior Center. Cribbage, 1 p.m., Mercer, Wis., Public Library. 715-476-2366. Art Program: “Paint the Universe,” 1 p.m., ages 8 and up, Ironwood Carnegie Library. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Episcopal Churc...
Monday, July 1 Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, Wis. 715-561-4450. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Story Time-The Wonky Donkey, 1 p.m., Ironwood Carnegie Library. Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30 p.m., All Saints Lutheran Church, Wakefield. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Sports Hall of Fame, 6 p.m., Luther L. Wright K-12 School, room 205. MECCA Ski Club, 6 p.m., MECCA cabin near the treatment facility, Mercer,...
BESSEMER — An all terrain vehicle-motorcycle crash in Bessemer on Saturday resulted in injury, according to law enforcement officials. The crash occurred at around 4:17 p.m. when a 55-year-old motorcyclist traveling on Black River Road, struck a side-by-side ATV that was turning left into a driveway, according to Michigan State Police. The motorcyclist was evacuated by air ambulance to Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth. The crash is under investigation and an accident investigator was called to the scene, according to Mic...
By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected] BESSEMER - A law enforcement orientation program to help officers familiarize themselves with courthouse procedures was held at Gogebic County Courthouse on Friday. The new program, started by Gogebic/Ontonagon Circuit Court Judge Micheal Pope, offers members of law enforcement a tour of the courthouse along with the opportunity to meet the staff working in the building. "Most departments are very good about bringing new staff by within a short...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] BESSEMER - Volunteers and some summer youth labor program members helped to create a trail link from the Yale neighborhood to the Bessemer segment of the Iron Belle Trail on Tuesday. The 0.21 mile trail is on city property and starts about a half-mile east of the Moore Street trailhead of the Iron Belle. The trail departs the Iron Belle and runs between Bessemer Plywood Corporation land and the Xcel Energy transfer station up to Spring Street,...
Saturday, June 29 Union Station Food Pantry and Northern Food Bank, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 252 E. Ayer St., Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2-5 p.m., Mercer School gymnasium. 715-776-4588. Community Night Meal Free Supper, 5-6 p.m., Apostolic Lutheran Church, Aurora Street, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Sunday, June 30 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Mercer H...
GRANITE BAY, Calif. - Evelyn M. (Ulasich) Sandin, of Ironwood, Mich., passed away Tuesday, June 25, 2019 in Orangevale, Calif. She was born on Dec., 3, 1928, to the late Matt and Marie Ulasich in Ironwood. Evelyn attended and graduated from St. Ambrose High School. She met Eugene Sandin of Bessemer, Mich., and the two exchanged vows on Aug. 21, 1948, at St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Ironwood. Following World War II, the couple worked in Chicago and moved to California in 1951, Evelyn briefly wo...
Thursday, June 27 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Patterson courts or Ironwood Memorial Building. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Wakefield City Hall; 1-2 p.m., Watersmeet Township; 2:45-3:15 p.m., Marenisco Township. 906-667-1110. “Bats of the Northwoods” reading program, 11 a.m., Mercer Public Library. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. SMART Recovery, 4:30 p.m., 101 E. Mary St., Bessemer. ReGeneration Youth, 5:30-6:45 p.m., ages 10-11; Relentless Youth, 7-9 p.m., ages 12-18; Lig...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Trevor Nicholas Stephani, 29, was freed from his long battle with depression and addiction on June 20, 2019. Trevor was born on April 13, 1990, to Michele (Rosen) Seibel and Joseph Stephani. He attended grade school in Bessemer, Mich., and Hurley, Wis., and graduated from Hurley High School with the class of 2008. Some of Trevor's favorite high school memories were being a part of the Hurley High School band. Trevor spent the last year of his life in recovery as a resident...
By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected] BESSEMER — Festivities for Bessemer’s annual Fourth of July starts 7 p.m. tonight in the Pocket Park downtown with the Tree of Honor lighting ceremony. Linda Nelson, chair of the July 4th committee, said the ceremony is to honor military members of both past and present. Red, white and blue lights are hung on the tree and the donor’s name is put is put on a plaque, she said which is displayed in front of the tree during the duration of the festivities. In the past, the ceremony has also included musi...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] RAMSAY - Pouring rain, along with thunder and lightning, did not stop Gogebic County members of the Michigan Townships Association from meeting in the Ramsay Memorial Park for their Tuesday evening meeting. The local MTA branch meets six times per year and rotates its sessions among the following six membering townships: Watersmeet, Marenisco, Wakefield, Bessemer, Ironwood and Erwin. The gatherings are fairly casual, with members enjoying a hot supper...
Thursday, June 27 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Patterson courts or Ironwood Memorial Building. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Wakefield City Hall; 1-2 p.m., Watersmeet Township; 2:45-3:15 p.m., Marenisco Township. 906-667-1110. “Bats of the Northwoods” reading program, 11 a.m., Mercer Public Library. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. SMART Recovery, 4:30 p.m., 101 E. Mary St., Bessemer. ReGeneration Youth, 5:30-6:45 p.m., ages 10-11; Relentless Youth, 7-9 p.m., ages 12-18; Lig...
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Donald P. Grenda, 89, long-time resident of Ironwood, passed away on Monday, June 24, 2019. Don was born on May 24, 1930 in Ironwood, son of late Peter and Josephine (Kropko) Grenda. He graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in 1948. He attended Gogebic Community College before enlisting in the Army, serving three years and receiving an Honorable Discharge in June 1952. On June 25, 1955, he married the love of his life, Ruth Lucas at St. Sebastian Church in Bessemer. Don...
Wednesday, June 26 Christian Men of the Northland, 6:30 a.m., Uptown Cafe, Ironwood. Mentoring of Moms, 9-10:30 a.m., Range Community Bible Church, Hurley. 715-561-4355. Cuddlebugs Story Time, 9:30 a.m., Ironwood Carnegie Library. Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. DOVE Support Group, noon-2 p.m. 906-932-4990. Ironwood-Hurley Rotary Club, 12:15 p.m., Elk and Hound Restaurant, Ironwood. Iron County Veterans Service Officer, 1-3 p.m., Mercer, Wis., Town Hall. 715-561-2190. Mercer Health and...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — Citing a lack of enrollment, All Saints Catholic Academy will reduce its curriculum to preschool and kindergarten for the 2019-20 school year. Parents of children attending the Pre-K through fifth grade school were informed of the class reduction in a June 7 letter. Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church published the announcement in the June 16 church bulletin. “We cannot offer any grades above kindergarten,” said Emily Lightfoot, lead teach...
By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Awkward Stage Drama Club met at Depot Park on Tuesday to start work on an anti-bullying project. Mary Hansen, co-coordinator of the club, said a grant was received to produce a campaign where club members will be writing scripts to address bullying in schools. "We're not sure where it's going to go," she said. "But we're starting it and letting them kind of lead us into how we can get people to understand how to combat that within the...
Tuesday, June 25 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Patterson courts or Ironwood Memorial Building. Mercer Area Sno-goers Board, 9 a.m., groomer barn. 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. Moonshadow Troy Graham kids concert, 11 a.m., Depot Park. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Golden Dragon. Awkward Stage Drama Club Summer Camp, grades 6-12, 1...
SCHOFIELD, Wis. - Marshall D. Blaskowski, 87, of Schofield, passed away at his home on Wednesday, June 12, 2019. Marshall was born Oct. 4, 1931 in Bessemer, Mich., the son of David J. and Sigrid L. (Maki) Blaskowski. They came to Hatley when he was 10. Marshall graduated from Wittenberg High School in 1949 and served in the United States Air Force as a Radio Operator on B-29 during the Korean War from 1950 to 1954. Marshall was united in marriage to Janet S. Delikowski on Oct. 22, 1955 at St....
Monday, June 24 Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, Wis. 715-561-4450. Finnish Women’s Auxiliary, 10 a.m., Little Finland. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Iron County Mobile Food Pantry, noon-1:30 p.m., Iron County Recycling-Iron County Forestry Parking Lot, 606-607 3rd Ave. North, Hurley. 715-561-2695. Young Writers Camp, 3 p.m., Ironwood Carnegie Library. Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30 p.m., All Saints Lutheran Church, Wakefield. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Our Lady of Pea...
BESSEMER - The Bessemer Parks and Recreation Board on Friday met at a remote area of Bluff Valley Park to discuss a disability accessible vision for an undeveloped area. The area is across Kallander creek from the outfield fence of the Little League field to the east, and the walking path from the State Street location to the west. A long term vision would be to create a nature observation point that would comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. "We didn't even know what we had here...
Saturday, June 22 Union Station Food Pantry and Northern Food Bank, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 252 E. Ayer St., Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2-5 p.m., Mercer School gymnasium. 715-776-4588. Community Square Dance, 3 p.m., Mercer Community Center. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Sunday, June 23 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Mercer Health and Wellness Pickleball, 3-6 p...
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Thomas J. Richter, 79, of Bessemer, passed away on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, with his loving family at his side. Tom was born on May 8, 1940, in Ironwood to Erwin and Myrtle (Richards) Richter. He graduated from Luther L. Wright High School with the class of 1958. He attended Michigan Tech and received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1962. He married Sandra Spagnoletti in August 1962. Tom worked for Pratt & Whitney and began his long career in Aeronautical Engineering. He w...
BESSEMER — An Iron River man pleaded guilty for taking a car from an Ironwood parking lot in Gogebic Circuit Court on Tuesday. Kyle Cal Kontney, 26, pleaded guilty to unlawfully driving away with a vehicle and use of methamphetamine as part of a plea agreement. The agreement also requires he plead guilty to breaking and entering of a motor vehicle to steal property less than $200 in a separate case in Gogebic County District Court. The unlawful driving charge is a 5-year felony, while breaking and entering and use of meth are misdemeanors. In e...
