Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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HURLEY - The Hurley Lions Club held its annual pancake breakfast fundraiser Sunday morning at the Bell Chalet. The Lions Club has been hosting the pancake fundraiser for 35 years and the proceeds raised benefit the Hurley 4-H Club as well as the 4-H Iron County Summer Youth Camp in Manitowish Waters, Wis. Hurley Lions Club president Jerry Pisani said the many volunteers helping the Lions Sunday, including members of the Hurley 4-H club as well as campers and counselors of the youth camp. The...
Monday, March 30 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. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood PTO, 6 p.m., Luther L. Wright School, room 124. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EDT, Ontonagon Village Housing, 100 Cane Court, Ontonagon. area74.org. Methamphetamine ETC, 8 p.m., support group, Woodland Church, Ironwood. 906-285-2813 or methetc.web.com. Government Ironwood Carnegie...
IRONWOOD, Mich. - James Edward Erickson, 50, of Mill Trace Apartments, Ironwood Township, died Friday, March 27, 2015, at Aspirus Grand View Hospital in Ironwood. Jim was born Nov. 29, 1964, in Ironwood, the son of Ronald and Carole (Luoma) Erickson. He attended Roosevelt Grade School and Luther L. Wright High School, and was a self-employed carpet and vinyl installer in the area for many years. Jim enjoyed fishing, hunting, and playing cards with his buddies, and was a big Green Bay Packers...
To the Editor: The Iron County Memorial Building Restoration Committee thanks the community for its support of the fundraiser held Sunday, March 22, for the purchase of new tables for the building. The tables are on order and will arrive for the busy season at the hall. Thanks to the area businesses that donated, as well at the Hurley Lioness for providing bakery, area students who shared their talents for the entertainment, and to all the volunteers who helped in their special way. Joe Walesewicz, Kimball, Wis....
Saturday, March 28 Waiting for Spring Craft Fair, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Iron County Memorial Building, Hurley. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Bessemer Easter EGGstravaganza Hunt, 11 a.m., Bessemer City Hall Auditorium. Alcoholics Anonymous Women’s Group, noon, Salem Lutheran, Ironwood. area74.org. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2 to 5 p.m., Mercer, Wis., School gymnasium. Chess Nuts Chess Club, 4 p.m., Maplewood Steakhouse, Ironwood. Free Supper, 5-6 p.m., Apostolic Lutheran Church, Aurora Street, I...
Friday, March 27 Double Trouble, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Serenity Center, Ironwood. Mercer Food Pantry, noon-1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Wis. Emergencies: 715-476-7655. Alcoholics Anonymous/Al-Anon, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EDT, Ontonagon Village Housing, 100 Cane Court, Ontonagon. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Government Ironwood Carnegie Library Board of Trustees, 1 p.m., library. 906-932-0203. Saturday, March 28...
Thursday, March 26 Downtown Ironwood Development Authority, 8 a.m., Memorial Building, Ironwood. 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, 2 p.m., all welcome, The Inn Bed and Breakfast, Montreal, Wis. 906-663-0308. Iron County Democrats, 4 p.m., Iron County Courthouse, Hurley. ReGeneration Youth, 5:30-6:45 p.m., ages 10-11;...
HURLEY — With the future of the Iron County Mining Impact Committee uncertain following the Feb. 27 announcement by Gogebic Taconite that it was closing the company’s Hurley office, committee Chairwoman Leslie Kolesar thanked the committee for their work. “Right now, with no mine project moving forward, I don’t know when this committee is going to meet again. Maybe it will be six months, maybe it will be a year, maybe it won’t be happening again. So I would like to let everyone know that if this committee doesn’t meet again, it has been my ple...
Wednesday, March 25 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. Mercer Area Play Group, 9:30-11 a.m., all welcome, Mercer, Wis., Public Library. 715-476-2366. Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. DOVE Support Group, noon-2 p.m. 906-932-4990. Iron County Veterans Service Officer, 1-3 p.m., Mercer, Wis., Town Hall. 715-561-2190. “Transition: How to Plan, Implement and Succe...
WAKEFIELD, Mich. - Judith A. Weber, 76, of Ironwood, passed away suddenly Thursday, March 19, 2015, at Gogebic Medical Care Facility in Wakefield after a brief illness. Judy was born Aug. 9, 1938, in Milwaukee, Wis., the daughter of the late Arthur and Ruth (Petermann) Krueger. On Sept. 14, 1957, she married her childhood sweetheart, David Weber. Together for 54 years, they moved North, eventually making their home in Ironwood. She was a devoted wife and mother who had a love of the medical...
HURLEY- The Iron County Comprehensive Planning/Land and Zoning Committee voted to recommend that the Iron County Board of Supervisors approve a temporary moratorium on the creation or development of any Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in the county following a public hearing on the issue Tuesday. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, sometimes referred to as Confined Animal Feeding Operations, are farms with over 1,000 animal units according to County Zoning Administrator Thomas...
HURLEY - With all the success the Hurley football program has had, it's hard to find many firsts. But senior Jordan Moore (5-10, 265) will be the first Midget to play in the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association/Children's Hospital Small School All-Star Football Game at Titan Stadium in Oshkosh, Wis., on July 18 at 2 p.m. "It's just a great honor to be representing Hurley," Moore said. "To be the first one to go and play is a great feeling." Moore, a defensive and offensive tackle, will play...
Tuesday, March 24 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, Tacconelli’s. Woods and Blooms Garden Club, 6:30 p.m., Haines Civic Center, Mercer, Wis. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, Ironwood. area74.org. Narcotics Anonymous, 7 p.m., open meeting, Wesley United Methodist...
Monday, March 23 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. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. All Saints Catholic Academy open house, 6 to 7:30 p.m., Ironwood. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. ET, Ontonagon Village Housing, 100 Cane Court, Ontonagon. area74.org. Methamphetamine ETC, 8 p.m., support group, Woodland Church, Ironwood. 906-285-2813 or methetc.web.com. Government Ironwood...
MARQUETTE, Mich. - George C. Paul, 90, of the D. J. Jacobetti Home for Veterans, Marquette, died Saturday, March 21, 2015, in Marquette. He was born Sept. 10, 1924, in Ironwood, son of the late George and Mary (Hein) Zuchowski. George attended local schools and served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War II from March 8, 1943, until Nov. 28, 1945. George served in three campaigns; Eastern Mandates, Papua and Western Pacific. In 1970, he received a Bachelor of Science degree from Long...
IRONWOOD - Local artists, members of the Range Art Association, have been studying master painters for the upcoming "Paint the Masters" show. Seventeen local artists have been studying famous master painters. Some of the artists being studied include Paul Gauguin, Georgia O'Keefe, Rembrandt, Salvador Dali, Johannas Vermeer, Claude Monet, Cezanne, Winslow Homer, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh. The artists each study a master artist's work and attempt to recreate the original. One of the...
Saturday, March 21 Children’s Story Hour, 10 a.m., Marenisco Public Library. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous Women’s Group, noon, Salem Lutheran, Ironwood. area74.org. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2 to 5 p.m., Mercer, Wis., School gymnasium. Chess Nuts Chess Club, 4 p.m., Maplewood Steakhouse, Ironwood. Sunday, March 22 Senior bingo and lunch, 12:15 p.m., Mercer, Wis., Senior Center. Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Alcohol...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - John H. Suutala, 85, of Vanderhagen Road, Ironwood Township, passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, at home on Friday, March 13, 2015, after a lengthy illness of COPD and chronic pneumonia. John was born Nov. 4, 1929, in Ironwood, son of the late Johannes and Lydia (Teerimaki) Suutala. He served four years in the U.S. Air Force. For three of those years he was stationed near Leicester, England, where he met his beautiful bride of 61 years, Grace "Toni" Cheney....
ASHLAND, Wis. - Dianne M. Hanson, 67, of Saxon, died peacefully Thursday, March 19, 2015, at Memorial Medical Center in Ashland, with her loving family by her side. The former Dianne Bluse was born March 13, 1948, in Ashland, daughter of Elizabeth "Bette" (Gervais) and the late Clayton "Chick" Bluse. She attended grade school in Saxon and graduated from St. Ambrose High School in Ironwood, Mich., in 1966. She then received a teaching certificate from Ashland Co. Normal Teachers College in 1968 a...
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — Hurley's Aiyana Nickel started the track-and-field season with a win in the 200-meter dash at Thursday's Tomahawk Indoor Invitational at UW-Eau Claire. She finished the race in 29.34 seconds. She also placed in the long jump (fourth) and triple jump (seventh). Susan Walesewicz finished seventh in the 1,600 run. The Hurley girls took ninth as Tomahawk won the meet. The Hurley boys finished 10th while Black River Falls won. Kris Bluse led the Midgets with a third-place finish in the high jump. He was also fifth in the 55 h...
Six Iron County students traveled to Madison during the last week in February as part of the delegation from Douglas, Bayfield, Ashland and Iron counties that were in the state capital for the 30th annual Superior Days. The event, which took place Feb. 24 and Feb. 25, allows representatives from the four northern counties to lobby state legislators and officials on issues they feel are important to the northern region. Iron County's delegation - made up of three Hurley students and three Mercer...
HURLEY - The University of Wisconsin's Iron County Extension Office is seeking donations to repair one of the train trestles that span the Montreal River, connecting Ironwood and Hurley, as part of a larger 16-mile trail construction project that would connect the Montreal Wis., ski trails with Sunday Lake in Wakefield. Organizers are looking for $50,000 in donations to add railings to the trestle and decking over the existing wooden beams so that it could be safely traveled on, explained Will...
HURLEY - Neil Klemme, the youth development agent with the University of Wisconsin's Iron County Extension Office, is excited for the arrival of summer - not just because of the warm weather but also because it's time for another 4-H Iron County Summer Youth Camp. This year is going to be a first for Klemme as he has decided to add a special camp for sixth and seventh graders that will run alongside the traditional third- through fifth-grade camp. "It's really my favorite week of the year," said...
WAKEFIELD, Mich. - Rose J. Armata, 92, of Ironwood, died peacefully Sunday, March 15, 2015, at Gogebic Medical Care Facility in Wakefield, with her loving family by her side. The former Rose DaRonco was born March 8, 1923, in Kimball, Wis., daughter of the late John and Regina (Petracco) DaRonco, attended St. Mary's Catholic Grade School in Hurley and graduated with honors from Lincoln High School, Hurley, in June 1941. She was then employed as bookkeeper at Range Beverage Co. in Hurley, head...
Wednesday, March 18 Christian Men of the Northland, 6:30 a.m., Uptown Cafe, Ironwood. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency supplemental food program, 9 to 10 a.m., Pioneer Park Apartments. Mercer Area Play Group, 9:30-11 a.m., all welcome, Mercer, Wis., Public Library. 715-476-2366. Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. DOVE Support Group, noon-2 p.m. 906-932-4990. Kimball Homemakers, 1 p.m., Kimball, Wis., Community Center. Iron County Veterans Service Officer, 1-3 p.m., Mercer, Wis., Tow...
