Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Tuesday, Nov. 3 Community Pickleball, 9-noon, Patterson Tennis Court, weather permitting. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Golden Dragon. Wakefield Seniors, noon, Wakefield Senior Center. Cribbage, 1 p.m., Mercer, Wis., Public Library. 715-476-2366. Alcoholics Anonymous,...
RHINELANDER, Wis. - Charles Garfield Bartlett, 91, of Erwin Township, Michigan, passed away peacefully on Oct. 23, 2020, at Rennes Health and Rehab in Rhinelander. Charles was born on Oct. 11, 1929, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, son of Belden and Hannah (Fox) Bartlett and was the first of four children. As a young boy, Charles loved growing up on a family farm in Derry, New Hampshire, where he helped tend to chickens and dairy cattle with his two brothers and sister. He attended Pinkerton Academy...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] As Election Day nears on Tuesday the city and county clerks of Gogebic County will be open Saturday, and some on Sunday, to allow for absentee voters to pick up and drop off ballots in person the final weekend before in-person voting is held at the polls. “Clerks are required by law to do a total of 8 hours on either Saturday or Sunday or a combination over both days — the weekend before the Tuesday Nov. 3 election,” said Vicky Finco, clerk for Erwin Township. Should a voter desire, his or her a...
Gogebic County MTA meeting features departing membersning that the total years represented two different stints in charge. "I've enjoyed it most of the time." He said he has appreciated the past couple of years less, owing to the current COVID-19 pandemic and Marenisco's loss of the Ojibway Correctional Facility. Nevertheless, he concluded, "It's been a pleasure to work with you people." Other MTA members who are leaving the group include Wakefield Township Treasurer Joan Dalman, Erwin Township...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Thursday, Oct. 29 Community Pickleball, 9-noon, Patterson Tennis Court, weather permitting. 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,...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Wednesday, Oct. 28 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,...
BESSEMER, Mich. - Anita Joy (Hauta) Milewski, of Bessemer, passed away quietly with loving family at her side, at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota, on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020, at the age of 86. Anita was born on Nov. 9, 1933, to Verner and Elmi (Betty) Hauta in Bessemer Township. She graduated from A.D. Johnston High School in Bessemer in 1951. She worked in the Chicago area before returning to Bessemer, and was united in marriage to Raymond Stanley Milewski on June 25, 1955, at St....
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, Oct. 24 Community Pickleball, 9-noon, Patterson Tennis Court, weather permitting. 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. Community Night Meal Free Supper, 5-6 p.m., Apostolic Lutheran Church, Aurora Street,...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP -- After last week’s board of trustees meeting was canceled due to a possible COVID-19 exposure, Ironwood Township officials are expecting the Oct. 26 meeting to be held remotely. “Next meeting will be a virtual (meeting), we are following the governor’s orders,” Supervisor Jim Simmons said, referring to the state law which Gov. Whitmer signed Friday, allowing government bodies to meet remotely during the pandemic. Information on how to call into the teleconference meeting...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Thursday, Oct. 22 Community Pickleball, 9-noon, Patterson Tennis Court, weather permitting. 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,...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD -- In what will likely be the first of many such votes, the Ironwood Area Schools’ board of education approved the district’s Extended Continuity of Learning Plan Monday. Superintendent Travis Powell said the plan contains a fair amount of overlap with the similar plans the district has passed since the start of the pandemic in March. The document lays out how the district will educate students if they are forced to stop in-person learning again due to the coronavirus pandemic. The big...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Wednesday, Oct. 21 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. Kimball Homemakers, 1 p.m., Community Center. Iron County Veterans Service Officer, 1-3 p.m., Mercer, Wis., Town Hall. 715-561-2190. American...
STEVENS POINT, Wis. - On the beautiful fall morning of Oct. 9, 2020, Dorothy Mae Tibaldo, 84, passed away peacefully at Willow Brooke Point Assisted Living with her family at her side. Dorothy was born to Martin and Jennie Maki on Dec. 3, 1935, in Ironwood, Michigan, where she resided all of her life until moving to central Wisconsin in 2019 to be near her family. She graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in Ironwood in 1953. While working at Joe's Pasty Shop in Ironwood, she met Joseph Ti...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, Oct. 17 Community Pickleball, 9-noon, Patterson Tennis Court, weather permitting. 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, Oct. 18...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Thursday, Oct. 15 Community Pickleball, 9-noon, Patterson Tennis Court, weather permitting. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution for seniors, Bergland Lake Gogebic Senior Center, 9:45-10 a.m. EDT; White Pine Township Hall, 10:20-10:35 a.m. EDT; Ontonagon Holy Family Catholic Church, 11-11:30 a.m. EDT; Mass City Resource Center, 1-1:30 p.m. EDT. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 10:30-11:30 a.m.,...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Ironwood Township officials canceled Monday's board of trustees meeting due to a possible COVID-19 exposure. Along with the cancellation of the meeting, the township offices are temporarily closed until there's more information regarding the situation, according to Township Supervisor Jim Simmons. Simmons said Tuesday he hoped that information would become available in the next day or so. The next township meeting, which is scheduled for Oct. 26, hasn't been canceled yet — wit...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Wednesday, Oct. 14 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. 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. EDT. Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] There are several local township and Gogebic County offices to be decided along with ballot questions and federal offices in the Nov. 3 general election. All ballots across the county will include the contested Drain Commissioner contest with Dan Woods, Democrat, facing Michael Foley, Republican. Incumbent Ramona Collins is a Democrat running unopposed for Gogebic County clerk and register of deeds. She is the current deputy register of deeds to Gerry Pelissero, who is not running for reelection. C...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Tuesday, Oct. 13 Community Pickleball, 9-noon, Patterson Tennis Court, weather permitting. 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, 10:30-11:15 a.m.; Mill Trace Apartments, Ironwood Township, west parking lot, 11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.; Wildwood Apartments, Ironwood Township, community...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] LANSING — Locals are waiting to see whether any of the $500 million for water infrastructure upgrades Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced last week will make it to the region. Whitmer called the MI Clean Water Plan a “significant investment after decades of underinvestment in Michigan’s infrastructure,” in her Oct. 1 announcement of the half a billion dollars in funding. “Since the first day I took office, I have made an unwavering commitment to ensuring that Michiganders have access to...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, Oct. 10 Community Pickleball, 9-noon, Patterson Tennis Court, weather permitting. 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, Oct. 11...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP - Members of the Wakefield Township Board of Trustees received good news on an audit of the fiscal year that ended March 31. CPA Karl "Gus" Ahonen of Makela Pollack and Ahonen, an accounting firm in Ironwood, provided the report, which indicated no problems. "You guys do a great job with your financials, and it's a very pleasant audit to do," said Ahonen. He said the township had a fund balance of $540,539 at the end of the fiscal year,...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Thursday, Oct. 8 Community Pickleball, 9-noon, Patterson Tennis Court, weather permitting. 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,...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] LANSING — Local education officials can breathe a sigh of relief after the state budget Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed last week didn’t contain any of the funding reductions they feared. Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District Superintendent Alan Tulppo and the superintendents of the GOISD member districts had warned a budget that included steep reductions in per-pupil funding could cripple their efforts to provide an education to students in their districts. Instead, the budget for the fis...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Wednesday, Oct. 7 Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood-Hurley Rotary Club, 12:15 p.m., Elk and Hound Restaurant, Ironwood. Iron County Veterans Service Officer, 1-3 p.m., Mercer, Wis., Town Hall. 715-561-2190. Mercer Health and Wellness Pickleball, 3-6 p.m., Mercer Community Center. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Sharon Lutheran Church, Bessemer. area74.org. Alzheimer’s Disease C...
