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Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, Feb. 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. Sunday, Feb. 6 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Mercer Health and Wellness Pickleball, 3-6 p.m., Mercer Community C...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] 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...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Friday, Feb. 4 Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer Senior Center. Double Trouble, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Serenity Center, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Mercer Food Pantry, noon-1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Wis. Emergencies: 715-476-7655. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EST, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org. Government Iron...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Thursday, Feb. 3 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Memorial Building, Ironwood. Bessemer St. Vincent de Paul, financial assistance, 9-10 a.m.; food pantry, 10 a.m. to noon. 906-663-4436. Ironwood St. Vincent de Paul, food pantry and financial assistance, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., located behind Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church. 906-932-4325. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Wakefield City Hall; 1-2 p.m., Watersmeet Township...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Wednesday, Feb. 2 Christian Men of the Northland, 6:30 a.m., Uptown Cafe, Ironwood. Ironwood St. Vincent de Paul, food pantry and financial assistance, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., located behind Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church. 906-932-4325. 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,...
OMA, Wis. — The Gogebic-Iron Area Narcotics Team arrested two individuals on a variety of drug charges after executing a search warrant on Riverside Road in the town of Oma on Jan. 21. George Clark, 35, and Kristi Sordahl, 39, were lodged in the Iron County Jail. They appeared in Iron County Circuit Court before Judge Anthony Stella on Jan. 23. Clark is charged with four counts of delivery of methamphetamine, and one count each of: possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine, keeper of a drug house, possession with intent to deliver m...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Tuesday, Feb. 1 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Memorial Building, Ironwood. Bessemer St. Vincent de Paul, financial assistance, 9-10 a.m.; food pantry, 10 a.m. to noon. 906-663-4436. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Ironwood St. Vincent de Paul, food pantry and financial assistance, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., located behind Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church. 906-932-4325....
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HOUGHTON — As February nears, the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department reported a decrease in the COVID-19 cases rate on Thursday. However, the updated numbers continue to show that the risk of transmission is high. “The good news is that the new case count and case rate per 100,000 population both dropped by more than 10 percent from last week,” the update says. “The bad news is that both are still extremely high and for the eighth week in a row we’ve had more than three people in the weste...
WAKEFIELD, Mich. - Douglas Gene Brady, 54, of Wakefield, passed away unexpectedly Monday, Dec. 13, 2021, due to COVID-19, at U.P. Health System-Marquette, with his loving children at his side. Douglas "Doug" was born on Dec. 14, 1966, at the Divine Infant Hospital in Wakefield, to Ida (Oinas) and Forrest Brady Sr. He graduated from Ewen-Trout Creek High School in 1986. On Oct. 22, 1987, Doug married the love of his life, Kathie Sabec, in Bessemer. They bought a house in Bruce Crossing, and later...
Saturday, Jan. 29 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. Sunday, Jan. 30 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Mercer Health and Wellness Pickleball, 3-6 p.m., Mercer Community Center. Narcotics Anonymous, 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, Wakefield, 706 Putnam St. Monday, Jan. 31 Iron C...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] BESSEMER — Erin Ross, a 4-H supervisor from Michigan State University Extension-Gogebic County, attended the Gogebic County Finance Committee meeting on Wednesday to request $76,000 of the 2021-2022 budget allocation for their programs, which led to criticism from some committee members about the office’s services. Chair Jim Lorenson said the board said $68,000 would be enough. He said that he was not opposed to allocating this amount, but he wants the Gogebic County office to show them the pro...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] 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...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Wednesday, Jan. 26 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. Ironwood St. Vincent de Paul, food pantry and financial assistance, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., located behind Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church. 906-932-4325. Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. DOVE Support Group, noon-2...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Tuesday, Jan. 25 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Memorial Building, Ironwood. Bessemer St. Vincent de Paul, financial assistance, 9-10 a.m.; food pantry, 10 a.m. to noon. 906-663-4436. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Ironwood St. Vincent de Paul, food pantry and financial assistance, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., located behind Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church. 906-932-4325....
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, Jan. 22 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. Sunday, Jan. 23 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Mercer Health and Wellness Pickleball, 3-6 p.m., Mercer Community C...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] 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...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors held a hearing on Tuesday to prepare for applying for funds through the bipartisan deal for broadband infrastructure that was passed in Congress in early November. At the board of supervisors’ meeting in December, Iron County Development Zone Coordinator Kelly Klein said that the bipartisan deal will deliver $65 billion to help with broadband infrastructure development. Klein said that each state will receive $100 million with the opportunity to compete f...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HURLEY — Five high school students from Hurley School District were sworn into the Iron County Board of Supervisors as student representatives at the board’s meeting on Tuesday. The students were introduced to the board by Neil Klemme, 4-H youth development educator with the University of Wisconsin-Madison – Extension Iron County. “The goal of the program is to provide an opportunity for the youth to have a voice in county decision making. Our county is trying to find ways to attract and retain...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Thursday, Jan. 20 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Memorial Building, Ironwood. Bessemer St. Vincent de Paul, financial assistance, 9-10 a.m.; food assistance, 10 a.m. to noon. 906-663-4436. Ironwood St. Vincent de Paul, food pantry and financial assistance, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., located behind Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church. 906-932-4325. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution for seniors, Bergland Lake...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Wednesday, Jan. 19 Christian Men of the Northland, 6:30 a.m., Uptown Cafe, Ironwood. Bessemer St. Vincent de Paul, financial assistance, 9-10 a.m.; food assistance, 10 a.m. to noon. 906-663-4436. 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. Ironwood St. Vincent de...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Tuesday, Jan. 18 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Memorial Building, Ironwood. 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, parking lot, 10:30-11 a.m.; Mill Trace Apartments, Ironwood Township, parking lot, 11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.; Wildwood Apartments, Ironwood Township, community room, 12:30-12:45 p.m....
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HOUGHTON — Just two weeks into the new year, there have already been 1,456 new COVID-19 cases in Baraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Keweenaw and Ontonagon counties in 2022, according to the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department. As of the health department’s most recent update on Wednesday, there have been 1,652 total COVID-19 cases in Baraga County, 2,572 cases in Gogebic, 6,132 cases in Houghton, 409 cases in Keweenaw and 832 cases in Ontonagon, for a total of 11,957 cases in the five counties. Sin...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, Jan. 15 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. Sunday, Jan. 16 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Mercer Health and Wellness Pickleball, 3-6 p.m., Mercer Community C...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Thursday, Jan. 13 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Memorial Building, Ironwood. St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry and Financial Assistance, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., located behind Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. 906-932-4325. 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,...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD - Gogebic-Iron County Airport manager Michael Harma said the airport was recently awarded $159,000 through the new bipartisan infrastructure bill. He said that there's not many details about the grant other than the news release, which talks about runways, taxiways and airport improvement projects. He thinks the money will be poured into one of their projects - either the midfield taxiway, building expansion or new general aviation facility....