Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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HARRIS — One day last summer, Deke Routheaux of Ironwood made the short trip to the Gogebic Country Club to enjoy a round ofgolf. Little did he know it would turn out to be much more than that. That was the day the retired Gogebic Community College basketball coach learned he was being inducted into the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame. “We were out on the course when (U.P. Sports Hall of Fame council member) Nancy Osier nonchalantly mentioned that I was being inducted,” said Routh...
TWO RIVERS, Wis. — Dorothy F. Bessen, 88, of Ewen, Mich., passed away Jan. 5, 2013, in Two Rivers. She was born on Dec. 25, 1924, to the late Harry and Beatrice (Carr) Albright. Dorothy attended Ewen High School, graduating in 1942, and attended secretary school in Duluth, Minn. She married Ernest Bessen in 1945 and they made their home on numerous Army bases until settling down in Ewen. Dorothy became the choir director of the famous Sacred Heart Singers. She worked for the Ewen-Trout Creek School District as a bus driver for 20 years, w...
APPLETON, Wis. — Geraldine Ann (Caudill) Case, of Appleton, died peacefully at home on May 2, 2013, from breast cancer. Jeri was one of 13 children born to William and Emily Caudill in Watersmeet, Mich., on Oct. 7, 1931. She was married to Harold Case in Chicago in April 1950. They lived in California while Harold served in the Korean War, and then returned to Chicago before moving to the Fox Valley, residing in both Neenah and Appleton. They built a home on Lake Camelot, near Nekoosa, where they enjoyed many years entertaining and building spe...
EWEN — The Michigan Department of Transportation closed the bridge on M-28 over the South Branch of the Ontonagon River just east of Ewen Monday at 2 p.m. At 3:30, the water was still rising according to Ontonagon County Road Commission officials, but the water was not over the road. Truck traffic was being detoured on M-64, M-38 and U.S. 45. Lighter traffic was rerouted to a bridge just south of M-28, adding a 3.5 mile detour, according to Jerry Mattson of the OCRC. Mattson, one of many OCRC w...
To the Editor: The editorial published April 23, “Let experts manage Michigan’s wildlife,” reprinted from the Detroit News, totally missed the mark. Using “sound science” resonates well with the public. In an ideal world, wildlife experts, researchers and biologists should guide wildlife management decisions, however, that is not reality. Top Department of Natural Resources officials are political appointees and the Natural Resource Commission is a politically-appointed body. At the March meeting, the NRC called upon an official from Montana a...
Prom season kicks off tonight with Wakefield-Marenisco High School’s prom at the Wakefield VFW. Seven area proms will be held through May 11. School and other public officials have tips for precautions to make sure the celebrations stay safe and everyone has a good time. For Wakefield-Marenisco, once the teens are at the prom site, they must stay there until it is over, as they will not be readmitted if they leave, said Melody Saubert, W-M high school secretary and junior prom advisor. For the p...
IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Theatre was alive with “The Sound of Music” Saturday evening as upwards of 200 folks took part in a sing-a-long showing of the 1965 Academy Award winning film. The adaptation of Rogers and Hammerstein’s beloved Broadway musical of the same name stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, seven precocious, yet very musical children, and a host of nuns and Nazis. Set in Salzburg, Austria, in “the last days of the Golden Thirties,” Maria, a wannabe nun, shows up at the v...
To the Editor: In his letter published April 3, Joe Allen claims pro-wolf groups are the real enemy of wolves. I would hope Allen understands that eliminating the sick, injured, weak wolves strengthens the deer herd and wolves have the potential to control/eliminate diseases such as chronic wasting disease. Allen should know there is no evidence to support his claim that wolves are causing deer, moose, elk or beaver populations to “disappear.” He is promoting this unfounded argument to support a wolf hunting season. The Department of Nat...
BRUCE CROSSING, Mich. — Susan Hjordis Pinkerton, 55, of Bruce Crossing, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and sister began her new life with God on April 4, 2013. She was born in Wakefield on March 24, 1958, to William and Hjordis (Maki) Hiitola. She graduated from Ewen-Trout Creek High School and was united in marriage to John Pinkerton on April 15, 1978, in Trout Creek. Susan was very active in her community and her church, and served as an ELCA Licensed Lay Minister. She was also involved in Habitat for Humanity, various fundraising e...
Ewen-Trout Creek senior Dillon Gordon and Ironwood junior Adam Mackey were named to Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan all-state teams. Mackey made the Class C team after leading the Red Devils to an 18-4 season. Gordon is on the Class D team, after averaging 28.5 points per game for the 17-5 Panthers. Gordon also made the Class D all-state Second Team in the Detroit News. Mackey was an honorable mention in Class C in the News. Crystal Falls Forest Park junior Lexi Gussert made the all-class elite teams from BCAM, the Detroit News an...
IRONWOOD — Kindergarteners in the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District have enjoyed a new age tool for learning this school year. Students presented their skills on iPads to the GOISD at the Elk and Hound in Ironwood on Thursday. Area kindergarteners and teachers demonstrated how the devices are used in the classroom to representatives of school districts in Ironwood, Bessemer, Wakefield-Marenisco, Ontonagon and Ewen-Trout Creek, and board members from Gogebic Community College. ...
ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon-White Pine Rotary learned Wednesday there are 578 students in the two-county area which are served by the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District in special education services. Marge Leaf, director of special education for the GOISD, and Rotary member Bruce Mayle, superintendent of the GOISD, told the members of the impact committee special education has on disabled from birth to 26 years old in Gogebic and Ontonagon counties. In Ontonagon County, Leaf said, the Ontonagon Area School District has 80 special e...
MARQUETTE — Dillon Gordon had a Dream career, now he’s on the Dream Team. Gordon, a Ewen-Trout Creek senior, was named to the all-class All-U.P. Dream Team. Voting was conducted at the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association ‘s 63rd annual boys basketball meeting Wednesday on the campus of Northern Michigan University. Mid-Peninsula’s 20-20 player Brett Branstrom was named Class D Player of the Year, beating Gordon on a 14-9 vote. Both players certainly had a case. —Branst...
MARQUETTE — Three for three. Ironwood junior Adam Mackey made the All-U.P. team for the third year in a row. It is his second consecutive season on the Class ABC First Team. He was Second Team as a freshman. Mackey finished in sixth place in voting for the five-person Dream Team this year. Voting was held at Wednesday’s 63rd annual boys basketball meeting of the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. Mackey averaged 17.8 points and 9.1 rebounds per game. He led the Devils in eight statistical categories: points sco...
MARQUETTE — Ewen-Trout Creek’s Zoey McGeshick and Ontonagon’s Chelsea Truscott were named to the All-U.P. Class D Second Team. While those two players are seniors, all five members of the all-class All-U.P. Dream Team are not — four are juniors and one is a sophomore. The All-U.P. team was determined during Wednesday’s 38th annual girls basketball meeting of the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association on the campus of Northern Michigan University. The boys team was also determined Wednesday and will be released in Saturday...
EWEN — It’s official. Ewen-Trout Creek senior Dillon Gordon is going to play basketball at Michigan Tech. Gordon committed Tuesday in a meeting at Houghton. “I’m extremely excited,” Gordon said. “I can’t wait to see what the next level brings. They’ve been recruiting me throughout the whole year and it seemed like a great place to go. Great education. I think it’s a great option for me.” Gordon finished his high school career at 1,797 points, the second most in E-TC history. “I’m just very, ver...
