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Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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BESSEMER - Members of the Bessemer Planning Commission cleared the way for a new housing complex by voting on Tuesday evening to change zoning on city land that is directly south of the Iron Belle Trail, which in turn runs directly south of Bessemer City Hall. The vote means that the zoning designation for the site - which runs between Clayberg and Moore streets - will change from Country Estates to Mixed Density Residential. In abbreviated terms, Country Estates is known as CE, and Mixed Densit...
By ZACHARY MARANO zmarano@yourdailyglobe.com WAKEFIELD - Light showers on Monday afternoon weren't enough to stop the Fourth of July celebrations in Wakefield, with the parade starting at Cormier's Corner and proceeding on Brotherton and Sunday Lake streets. City and area residents lined the streets of downtown Wakefield to watch the parade from camping chairs and bleachers, while children prepared to gather any candy thrown from the parade floats. Before the general parade started, a group of...
WAKEFIELD - Despite the threat of thunderstorms, a community picnic in honor of July 4 went off without a hitch on Sunday, drawing a large crowd of people who enjoyed the entirety of Eddy Park. There was plenty of delicious picnic fare, as well as organized activities ranging from kiddy fun to bingo to live music by several bands or musicians. The Wakefield Volunteer Fire Department also offered a display. In the John Siira pavilion, Dave and Bobbi Sue Daignault of Coon Rapids, Minnesota, and...
RAMSAY - It could be said that the crowd at Ramsay's Independence Day celebration was so full of energy that no pyrotechnics show was even needed. However, the actual fireworks - aptly named "Rumble Over the River" - also were awesome. Saturday's festivities, which started at 6 p.m. and lasted the rest of the evening, attracted hundreds of friendly folks - several with cowboy hats adorned with U.S. flags - who gathered along the entire length of Main Street. Behind the Bessemer Township Fire...
Fireworks can be an exciting Fourth of July spectacle, but when handled improperly, these pyrotechnic devices can cause fires, severe injuries and deaths. Local public safety departments recommend handling them with care over the holiday weekend and following all applicable laws. “Each July 4th, thousands of people – most often children and teens – are injured while using consumer fireworks. Despite the dangers of fireworks, few people understand the associated risks: devastating burns, other injuries, fires and even death,” Lt. Matthew...
Flags from many countries wave in the breeze as they hang from the eave of the Historic Ironwood Depot early Friday afternoon. The flags represent the various countries of origin for contributors to the 2022 Emberlight Festival. Friday was the opening of Mary Burns' "Ancetral Women Exhibit: Wisconsin's 12 Tribes" and the "Emberlight Photographers" show, both on display in the depot through the two-month festival of visual and performance art in Ironwood. The Art in the Park exhibit opens today...
By P.J. GLISSON news@yourdailyglobe.com BESSEMER - The 13th annual Tree of Honor ceremony had a rousing start on Wednesday evening as members of Marty's Goldenaires marched up Sophie Street and lined up in the Bessemer Pocket Park. The band played several patriotic tunes, and Myron Re played "Taps" as American flags large and small loomed all around. As World War II veteran Thomas J. DeCarlo danced to the music, Marty's Director Dan Pitrone prompted the crowd to "give him a hoop and holler."...
By P.J. GLISSON news@yourdailyglobe.com WAKEFIELD - Members of the Wakefield Historical Society Museum flung open its doors Tuesday with a quiet open house to start the summer season. Bernie Ylkanen, a museum docent, hosted the "Forchuly" event with his dog, Nisu, who was happy to meet new friends. Although traffic was light that day, Ylkanen said society members expect heavier flow soon. "The big day here is the Fourth (or July)," he said. "It gets overrun here." Ylkanen said it's likely that...
By P.J. GLISSON news@yourdailyglobe.com BESSEMER — Persons looking for a rockin’ good time will have no trouble finding it as the Fourth of July period has a list of live bands set to perform across the region. Bessemer alone will feature three bands tonight, Friday and Sunday evenings in the downtown area. Ramsay, in Bessemer Township, also will have a Saturday night live band. Flashback, which is the only local band, will perform tonight from 8 p.m.-midnight on Sophie Street in Bessemer. The Dweebs, from the Twin Cities of Minnesota, wil...
By ZACHARY MARANO zmarano@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD - City Engineer Scott Erickson provided the city commissioners with an update on their projects at their regular meeting on Monday. Erickson said that the city has approximately 51 projects that are underway or in the works and reviewed some of the highlights. Erickson said that a contractor comes to the city every year and applies a fresh coat of paint to the pavement markings indicating which way traffic should go. He said the contractor ha...
By P.J. GLISSON news@yourdailyglobe.com MERCER, Wis. - Despite occasional rain throughout the weekend, the Mercer Open All-Species Fishing Tournament took place on a variety of public-access lakes that are south of County Road G. "It is the second year in this form," said Melissa Biszak, executive director of the Mercer Chamber of Commerce, the primary sponsor of what is billed as a "family-friendly" event. The event, which Biszak said had 35 participants this year, now includes two divisions:...
BESSEMER - The 13th annual Geocache Dash starts today in Bessemer, as numerous Fourth of July events begin to unfold more than a week before the actual holiday. "It's very family-friendly," said dash organizer Scott Pospect on Thursday. Parents are welcome to bring children, and the only items needed to participate are a smartphone and a global-positioning system app. GPS coordinates will be available today, along with full rules, at bessemer4th.com. Pospect's geocache activity is different...
By CHARITY SMITH csmith@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD - The Gogebic Range Health Foundation has announced three recipients of the for the second year of the Jonathan A. Erickson Fund grants. The awardees include the Emberlight Ambassador Leadership Program, the Wakefield-Marenisco School Youth Skatepark Project and the Gogebic County Sheriff's Department for Project Life Saver. Andrea Bergman, executive director of the foundation presented two of the awardees with a check on Thursday morning....
By Charity Smith csmith@yourdailyglobe.com HURLEY - The annual Across the Borders community health fair returned to the Iron Belle Trail Tuesday. The annual event provides a way for residents to gather information on resources available to the aging in the community, while getting some exercise by walking the Iron Belle Trail from Hurley to Ironwood. Twenty-seven vendors representing a variety of organizations, governmental agencies and local businesses which provide various services to the elde...
By MEGAN HUGHES news@yourdailyglobe.com WAKEFIELD - The Wakefield-Marenisco School Board met on Monday evening for its monthly meeting. Members discussed the proposed budget for the 2022-2023 school year and heard an update regarding the window project. The budget was discussed in full at the finance meeting immediately before the board meeting, and the first reading was accepted unanimously by the board. Additionally, the board approved adding the Non-Homestead Millage Renewal Resolution to...
By ZACHARY MARANO zmarano@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD - Luther L. Wright K-12 School's last day of school was June 3, but Ironwood Area Schools staff are still serving meals to youth in the community over summer break. The school's summer food service program offers lunch at the Ironwood Depot Park from 11 a.m. to noon on Mondays through Fridays through Aug. 19. Lisa Ursini, a food services staff member, said that many people seem to think that only children from low-income families can get...
By CHARITY SMITH csmith@yourdailyglobe.com HURLEY - The Aging and Disability Resource Center of the North will host the third annual "Across the Borders" Senior Information and Awareness Walk on the Iron Belle Trail from Hurley to Ironwood Depot Park from 5 to 7 p.m. The event will feature booths spread out across that segment of the trail, from more than 20 local organizations which handle the care of seniors in various locations across both Michigan and Wisconsin. These include human service...
By ZACHARY MARANO zmarano@yourdailyglobe.com ONTONAGON - Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park offers a scenic overview of Lake of the Clouds, but some people may be unable to fully experience the view because of their colorblindness. To make the overlook more inclusive to people with color deficiencies, park staff unveiled two scenic viewers with filters that help them see colors on Wednesday. "Color blindness can make visits to nature less appealing. While people with normal color vision s...
By P.J. GLISSON news@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD - After a related public hearing that drew no public comment, the Ironwood City Commission passed a new fiscal budget of $15,180,000 on Monday evening. The new budget, for which the vote was unanimous, will cover the fiscal year starting on July 1 and ending on June 30, 2023. "The budget is a living and breathing document that can be amended at any time throughout the year," reminded Paul Linn, finance director and treasurer. Linn, who presented...
By CHARITY SMITH csmith@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD — Despite the rain, members of the local LGBTQ community and their allies celebrated the second annual Pride U.P. Saturday in Ironwood’s Downtown City Square. The event featured vendors, a free community lunch and live music. Some of the booths offered miniature pride flags, stickers and T-shirts. Some children ran around the park collecting the little flags and stickers, and hula-hooped to the music. Many people had various pride flags dra...
BESSEMER - The Bessemer Downtown Development Authority is seeking bids to have the concrete removed between the curb and the sidewalk between East Sellar Street and East Colby Street on South Sophie Street. DDA staff person Samantha Dorr said that funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Rural Development only covered the concrete demolition up to the southmost point of Sophie Street and cannot cover the north three quarters of the street. According to Dorr the city can pay for the...
WATERSMEET - Pint-sized pomp and circumstance took the lead on Thursday as Watersmeet K-12 School celebrated its kindergarten graduation in the cafeteria. Superintendent and Principal George R. Peterson, III provided the welcome, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance by the "Class of 2034." James Williams Jr., tribal chairman of the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, thanked teachers and noted the importance of education before leading the tribe's drum band in an honor...
SAXON, Wis. - Volunteer firefighters were roused from their beds around 3 a.m. on Wednesday to respond to a fire in Saxon Harbor, Saxon-Gurney Fire Department Chief Stacy Ofstad told the Daily Globe on Wednesday. Thanks to their rapid response, Ofstad said the fire was extinguished around 7:30 a.m. and there were no injuries. The fire was contained to a beach on the east side of Oronto Creek, Ofstad said. The fire destroyed some driftwood on the beach, but Ofstad said that mother nature helped p... Full story
IRONWOOD - Ongoing problems at the Historic Depot Park in Ironwood prompted the Ironwood Parks and Recreation Committee to consider setting a curfew on the depot park pavilion at their regular meeting on Tuesday. Committee chair Sam Davey said "the kids are just out of hand" at the park and proposed the curfew so they will have to leave the pavilion by a certain time or face charges for trespassing. The committee discussed a curfew time of 7 p.m. or 30 minutes before sunset, with the exact time...
