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Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM LAVENTURE tlaventure@yourdailyglobe.com BESSEMER — A state program can help cities and counties learn to use visitor first impressions to help identify assets and realize potential, according to a tourism specialist who spoke to the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday. Will Cronin, the tourism and community development educator for Michigan State University Extension, appeared virtually at the county commission regular meeting to discuss the First Impressions Tourism program. He said the program has helped marketing and d...
By TOM LAVENTURE tlaventure@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD - Although perhaps shared virtually in these challenging times the message of Christmas is no less powerful and transforming, according to area pastors who reflected on the celebration of the reason for the season. --- Rev. Donald Nickolson, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Hurley said Christmas Day celebrates the birth of Jesus. "For many of us news of this event is familiar and traditional. It may not feel new or startling. It may...
By P.J. GLISSON news@yourdailyglobe.com WAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP — Members of the Wakefield Township Board of Trustees voted in a special Tuesday evening meeting to advertise an opening on the board. The action was taken in acknowledgment of last weekend’s passing of Gerald “Jerry” Niemi, who had just been re-elected to the board on Nov. 3. “I was looking forward to working with him,” said newly-elected Clerk Jennifer Ahonen in the virtual session. “He was a great board member.” “He was fantastic,” said Supervisor Mandy Lake. “He was an awesome...
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Thursday, Dec. 24 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. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. SMART Recovery, 4:30 p.m., 101 E. Mary St., Bessemer. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, Hurley. area74.org. Friday, Dec. 25 Double Trouble, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.,...
By RICHARD JENKINS rjenkins@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD — The three-district football co-op team in western Gogebic County is no more after the Ironwood Area Schools’ board of education voted to dissolve the co-op Monday, with the other districts in the co-op taking similar votes. The team consisted of students from the Ironwood, Bessemer and Wakefield-Marenisco school districts. “All three schools, through very cordial and collaborative conversation, … have agreed to dissolve the current Gogebic Miners football co-op with the intention we will...
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Wednesday, Dec. 23 Christian Men of the Northland, 6:30 a.m., Uptown Cafe, Ironwood. 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. Mercer Health and Wellness Pickleball, 3-6 p.m., Mercer Community Center. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Sharon Lutheran Church, Bessemer....
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Tuesday, Dec. 22 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, Golden Dragon. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Sharon Lutheran Church, Bessemer. area74.org. Woods and Blooms Garden Club, 6:30 p.m., Haines C...
By P.J. GLISSON news@yourdailyglobe.com WAKEFIELD — Members of the Wakefield City Council learned Monday that the city’s municipal building may serve as a site for COVID-19 testing and/or immunizations. City Manager Robert Brown, Jr. reported that the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department in Hancock has requested to use the municipal building gym as a site to administer COVID-19 testing. He said that it could be just a one-time event before the end of the year or possibly could involve weekly sessions during the first couple months of 2021....
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Diane Halverson, 61, passed away peacefully in her home on Dec. 17, 2020, after a courageous battle with cancer. Diane, the daughter of Gladys and Donald DeRosie, was born on March 24, 1959, at the Wakefield Hospital. She graduated from A.D. Johnson High School in Bessemer with the class of 1977. She then attended the Patricia Stevens Career College earning a diploma in fashion merchandising. After working in Milwaukee for a few years she returned to the Ironwood area in 1981...
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, Dec. 19 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. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Sunday, Dec. 20 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, I...
By TOM LAVENTURE tlaventure@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD - Jeanne Olsen's travels around the country to visit her children have also made her somewhat of a culinary ambassador. The Ironwood resident says her five grown children grew up eating pasties and that prior to each of her visits, she shops her favorite area bakeries to bring dozens of them with her. While visiting, she is also invited to hold a pasty making class for family friends and relatives, including her recent Thanksgiving trip to...
HURLEY, Wis. — George C. Champion, 95, of Ironwood Township, Michigan, passed away on Dec. 12, 2020, at Villa Maria Health and Rehabilitation Center in Hurley due to COVID-19. George was born on July 8, 1925, in Ironwood, Michigan, son of William R. and Edna (Johnson) Champion. He attended local schools and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School. He enlisted in the U.S. Army and served from Jan. 17, 1944, until his discharge on May 7, 1946, as a sergeant. On July 2, 1949, he married Bonna Lee at the First Baptist Church in Kenosha. G...
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Thursday, Dec. 17 Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution for seniors, Bergland Lake Gogebic Senior Center, 9:45-10 a.m. EST; White Pine Township Hall, 10:20-10:35 a.m. EST; Ontonagon Holy Family Catholic Church, 11-11:30 a.m. EST; Mass City Resource Center, 1-1:30 p.m. EST. 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.,...
By TOM LAVENTURE tlaventure@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD — It will take two people to fill the shoes of a retiring city assessor and building inspector, according to the Ironwood City Commision meeting on Monday. Dennis Hewitt is retiring at the end of December after 24 years in the dual role of city assessor and building official for the city of Ironwood, according to city manager Scott Erickson at the meeting. Hewitt has abilities and specific credentials, certifications and licenses that have allowed him to serve both in positions. “Both posi...
By RICHARD JENKINS rjenkins@yourdailyglobe.com IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — For the second time in four years the Ironwood Township Board of Trustees voted to take ownership of the natural spring off Lake Road near Little Girl’s Point Monday. The board’s decision came in anticipation of an expected decision at the Gogebic County Road Commission meeting that same night to either transfer the property to the township or pull the pipe that people use to get water from the spring. “If we don’t take possession of it, their plan is to go ahead and pull the sp...
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Wednesday, Dec. 16 Christian Men of the Northland, 6:30 a.m., Uptown Cafe, Ironwood. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution for seniors, Marenisco Town Hall, 9:15-9:30 a.m; Watersmeet Food Pantry, 10-10:30 a.m.; Bruce Crossing, Stannard Township ballpark, 12:30-1 p.m. EST. Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. DOVE Support Group, noon-2 p.m. 906-932-4990....
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Tuesday, Dec. 15 Iron-Gogebic Integrated Family Services, 9-10:30 a.m., Iron County Courthouse, Hurley. 906-663-4045 or 715-561-2191. Wisconsin Veterans Employment Services Representative, 9-11:30 a.m., veterans service office, Hurley. 715-392-7808. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution for seniors, Pioneer Park Apartments tenants only, Ironwood, 9-10 a.m.; Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood,...
By RICHARD JENKINS rjenkins@yourdailyglobe.com The Western Upper Peninsula Health Department and Iron County Health Department released the latest updates of local COVID-19 cases Thursday as health officials continue to battle the ongoing coronavirus pandemic; and although the numbers continue to rise, Thursday didn’t show as large of a jump as the region has seen in the past. Gogebic County had a total of 656 positive cases and 271 additional probables over the course of the pandemic, including 24 deaths and 69 active cases as of Thursday. Thi...
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, Dec. 12 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. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Sunday, Dec. 13 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, I...
By TOM LAVENTURE tlaventure@yourdailyglobe.com BESSEMER — Gogebic County will need to hire an attorney administrator to appoint lawyers for indigent defendants now that the judiciary is barred from that role, according to a presentation at the Wednesday meeting of the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners. Appearing virtually from Ogemaw County, attorney Melissa Wangler, the Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan regional manager for the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission, said the MIDC is implementing the new Standard 5 that was approved b...
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Thursday, Dec. 10 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. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Grief Support Group, 1 to 2:30 p.m., Dr. Kate Hospice office, 1571 Highway 51 North in Arbor Vitae. SMART Recovery, 4:30 p.m., 101 E. Mary St., Bessemer. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6:30 p.m.,...
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Wednesday, Dec. 9 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. 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.,...
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Tuesday, Dec. 8 Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Friends of the Mercer Public Library, 10 a.m., library, Mercer, Wis. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Golden Dragon. Bessemer American Legion Post 27, 5 p.m., American Legion, Bessemer. Bessemer Legion Auxiliary, 5 p.m., Elk and Hound, Ironwood. Ironwood...
By TOM LAVENTURE tlaventure@yourdailyglobe.com BESSEMER — A Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund Board recommendation will add more than 4,000 acres to Gogebic County forest land, according to a Thursday announcement. The Gogebic County Forest Expansion Project was among 26 acquisition grant recommendations from the Trust Fund Board totaling $27.2 million. The county application requested $3,225,300 to add approximately 4,007.3 acres with the county budgeting for a 26% local match. This acquisition of unique forestland consists of many s...
Email calendar items and community news to news@yourdailyglobe.com. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, Dec. 5 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. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Sunday, Dec. 6 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, I...
