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By ZACHARY MARANO zmarano@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD - As the three-day winter storm comes to an end, 14.9 inches of snow were measured at the Gogebic-Iron Wastewater Treatment Facility in Ironwood from Monday through 7 a.m. on Wednesday, bringing the total snow accumulation for the 2021-2022 winter season to 143.8 inches. The National Weather Service in Marquette says that Ironwood, Watersmeet and most surrounding areas received 12-18 inches of snow, with the Porcupine Mountains and other,...
RHINELANDER, Wis. - Patricia Mary Kytola, 91, passed away peacefully on Feb. 18, 2022, at Friendly Village in Rhinelander. She was born April 9, 1930, to the late Frank and Eva (Archambeau) Formolo at home in Montreal, Wisconsin. Pat's mother and father died while she was in high school, so Pat helped raised her brothers Francis and Eugene until they could be on their own. She graduated from J.E. Murphy High School in Hurley, and was employed by Michigan Bell Telephone Company as a telephone... Full story
By CHARITY SMITH csmith@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD - After a 10-year hiatus, the snowmobile hillclimb returned to Copper Peak this past weekend. Participants had a simple goal to make it to the top of the extremely steep Copper Peak hill, zigging and zagging around gates. The top prizes went to those who made it to the top in the shortest time. Tyler Robinson, of Afton, Wyoming, was named King of the Hill in the Mod Class with a winning time of 42.06 seconds. Matt Tingstad of Bessemer claimed...
By CHARITY SMITH csmith@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD - Gogebic Community College has partnered once again with the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District to host five summer camp classes for youth ages 11-14. "It is really exciting. It's the second year we have tried to do some programing targeting middle school students," said Glen Ackerman-Behr, director of workforce development at GCC. "Last year, we had one camp in Gogebic County and one camp in Ontonagon County, both focusing on manu...
By CHARITY SMITH smith@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD - The Anderson Bluffs and River Trails Foundation held its second annual Project Connect Fun Nordic Relay on Saturday. Skiers had the opportunity to use special trail connections between ABR, Wolverine, Miners Memorial Park and Iron Belle trails. The event did not have a start or a finish line and was not a competition. Relay participants formed teams and conducted a relay event of their choosing utilizing as much or as little of each of the...
By CHARITY SMITH csmith@yourdailyglobe.com BESSEMER - Students at A.D. Johnson High School now have a new weightlifting and cardio room. It is open for training before and after school, as well as certain classes. The new training room is located under the bleachers on the north side of the gymnasium, directly across from its former location, in a room that was the old wood shop and was originally a bus garage many years ago, according to superintendent Dan Niemi. "We needed more space," said Ni...
By CHARITY SMITH csmith@yourdailyglobe.com BESSEMER - The Bessemer Recreation Committee is in the process of having stands built for the little libraries that will be placed around the community. The committee discussed options for the stands, which will be built by North Country Welding in Bessemer. Committee member Trevor Jackovich took one of the libraries to the welding shop on Thursday so they could come up with some ideas for the stands. "They thought of either creating a base and burying...
By ZACHARY MARANO zmarano@yourdailyglobe.com HURLEY — The Iron County Sheriff Department is interested in purchasing an incident command trailer to act as a mobile command post during prolonging incidents, Sheriff Paul Samardich said to the Iron County Law Enforcement Committee at their meeting on Monday. “Quite often, our search and rescue functions are utilized in the summertime where heat would be an issue for changing people in and out,” Samardich said to the Daily Globe. “We had several incidents in the last few years where somethi...
By ZACHARY MARANO zmarano@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD - Ironwood is celebrating the first Friday of the month with the theme of "love your neighbor." There will be a vendor fair, a film screening at the Historic Ironwood Theatre and a collaborative pride fashion show from 5-6 p.m. at Time Again Studios in downtown Ironwood. "Guests are asked to wear their best, in fashion and in solidarity, for what it means to love all and exclude none!" according to the event Facebook page. "The show starts at...
By CHARITY SMITH csmith@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD - Nearly 20 volunteers worked Monday afternoon to shovel out a circular path in Ironwood's snow-filled Downtown City Square to make way for an ice-skating path in time for First Friday. "It was made for this, so we're going to try it out," said city commissioner David Andresen. "Hopefully, have it ready by First Friday if the weather helps us out here. We're all kind of new to this and just getting together to try and make something nice for...
IRONWOOD - The Gogebic Community College Board of Trustees heard Tuesday a report from six students that attended the National Council on Student Leadership through the college's TRiO Student Support Services program in Orlando, Florida, this past November. The participants included Alyssa Knight, Amber Dwyer, Brianne Bastman, Emaleah Niemi, Corrin Kelly and Adelya Maxinoski. They were chosen to go through an essay competition. "The essay winners each wrote compelling pieces on the qualities and...
By ZACHARY MARANO zmarano@yourdailyglobe.com HURLEY - Residents from Wisconsin's Northwoods had the chance to have their voices heard by one of their elected officials when U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, visited the Iron County Memorial Building in Hurley on Tuesday. Tiffany said that he comes from Washington, D.C., to various parts of his congressional district two to three times a year to take questions from his constituents and this is his first visit to Hurley as representative. "I...
ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon County Animal Protection shelter is going green. During the fall spruce-up event held at the facility in October, the idea to recycle materials which were then going into the shelter’s dumpster was discussed, according to a release from Ken Raisanen, who is a cat volunteer at the shelter as well as a member of the Ontonagon Recycling Initiative committee. A proposal to begin recycling pet food containers and empty bottles from sanitizing and cleaning products was brought to the OCAP board. With the board’s appro...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE lholcombe@yourdailyglobe.com If it's Wednesday, there's a snowshoe outing awaiting outdoor enthusiasts in the region, thanks to organizers of the Superior Snowshoe Walks. The weekly group snowshoe walks are marking their 11th season in 2022, according to organizers Sam and Anne Davey. The series of Wednesday walks are scheduled on various trails in the region. Snowshoers of all abilities are welcome. There are two roughly hour-long walks each Wednesday, both at the same trail...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE lholcombe@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD - The Ironwood Chamber of Commerce honored Burton Electronics Manufacturing System as the 2021 Business of the Year on Wednesday as chamber officials handed out four annual awards in a virtual ceremony. For the second year in a row, the chamber chose to hand out the awards for business, organization and volunteer of the year, as well as the Gus Swanson Educational Award, in a serious of individually recorded presentations that were to be po...