Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Tuesday, May 14 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Patterson courts or Ironwood Memorial Building. 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. Customer hospitality seminar, 10 a.m., Sharon’s Coffee Company, Hurley. 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 parking lot, 10:30-11:15 a.m.; Mill Trace Ap...
Monday, May 13 Men’s Bible study, 8 a.m., Bessemer Housing Community, community room, 906-667-0469. Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, Wis. 715-561-4450. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution for seniors, GOCAA, 100 S. Mill St., Bessemer, from 9 a.m.-noon and 1-3 p.m.; Wakefield VFW, 9-9:30 a.m.; Sunset Manor Apartments community room, 9:40-9:55 a.m.; Riverview Apartments parking lot, 10-10:15 a.m.; Hillcrest Apartments community room, 10:30-10:45 a.m.; Fairview Apartments c...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, May 11 Work and Play Earth Day, 9 a.m.-noon, Copper Falls State Park, Mellen. 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, May 12...
IRONWOOD, Mich. — Jean Ann Broemer 85, of Ironwood, passed away at Westgate Nursing Center in Ironwood on May 8, 2019. She was born to Walter and Irene (Sereno) Lapachin on June 17, 1933, in Montreal, Wis. She graduated from Hurley High School in 1951 and married Frederick “Buzzy” Broemer in 1958. Jean was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Frederick; brothers, Donald and Ronnie Lapachin; sisters, Florence Casten and Barbara Aspinwall; and her grandson, Tayler Lampart. Jean is survi...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - Members of Iron County Outdoor Recreation Enthusiasts and other supporters of the local non-motorized trails came together Saturday afternoon for a work bee at the Hurley trailhead. Organizers were pleased with the turnout for the work event, with around 20 volunteers coming throughout the day to lend a hand with the various projects. "I'm surprised how many people showed up. There were a lot of events (today) and it was the opening day of...
Monday, May 6 Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, 715-561-4450. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30 p.m., All Saints Lutheran Church, Wakefield. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Sports Hall of Fame, 6 p.m., Luther L. Wright K-12 School, room 205. MECCA Ski Club, 6 p.m., MECCA cabin near the treatment facility, Mercer, Wis. Erwin Community Club, 6:30 p.m., Erwin town hall. Festival...
Saturday, May 4 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, May 5 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Mercer Health and Wellness Pickleball, 3-6 p.m., Mercer Community Center. Gogebic Range Trail Authority, 6 p...
HURLEY - With the snow melted and spring here, Iron County Outdoor Recreation Enthusiasts is planning a work bee at the Hurley trailhead near the Montreal River Saturday. The cleanup will begin at 1 p.m. and will include planting trees, clearing the trail, picking up any litter that accumulated over the winter, starting a native plant garden, staining benches and other projects to beautify and improve the trailhead between the local motorized and non-motorized trails. Organizers ask volunteers...
Monday, April 29 Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, 715-561-4450. Open House, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Northwoods Christian Academy, Hurley, 715-561-2545. Finnish Women’s Auxiliary, 10 a.m., Little Finland. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Iron County Mobile Food Pantry, noon-1:30 p.m., Iron County Recycling-Iron County Forestry Parking Lot, 606-607 3rd Ave. North, Hurley. 715-561-2695. Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30 p.m., All Saints Lutheran Church, Wakefield. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6...
Saturday, April 27 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, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Sunday, April 28 Mercer Senior Games, 11:30 a.m., free lunch at 12:15 p.m., game,s 1-3 p.m. Alcoholics...
Monday, April 22 Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, 715-561-4450. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Beginner Finnish language class, 3:30 p.m., Little Finland, Kimball. Advanced Finnish language class, 4:30 p.m., Little Finland, Kimball. Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30 p.m., All Saints Lutheran Church, Wakefield. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EST, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next...
Saturday, April 20 Easter Egg Hunt, 10-11 a.m., Mercer Public School. 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, April 21 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Mercer Health and Wellness Pickleball, 3-6 p.m., M...
Monday, April 15 Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, Wis. 715-561-4450. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution, seniors, GOCAA, 100 S. Mill St., Bessemer, from 9 a.m.-noon and 1-3 p.m.; Wakefield VFW, 9-9:30 a.m.; Sunset Manor Apartments community room 9:40-9:55 a.m.; Riverview Apartments parking lot 10-10:15 a.m.; Hillcrest Apartments community room 10:30-10:45 a.m.; Fairview Apartments community room 10:50-11 a.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood....
WAKEFIELD — After decades of work with snowmobile trails, the Gogebic Range Trail Authority is expanding its work to support ORV use in the region, according to club president Steve Hamilton. The GRTA recently became part of a Michigan Department of Natural Resources administered ORV Trail Sponsorship Program. This program establishes GRTA as the maintainers of a 12-mile ORV trail from M-64 in Marenisco west to Korpela Road in Wakefield Township, and provides access to ORV trail-permit improvement funds, according to Hamilton. The club p...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, April 13 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 Easter program, noon-1 p.m., Bessemer VFW Post 3673. 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, April 14 Alcoholics...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The process of reimbursing local communities for damaged sustained during a pair of storms last year is under way as the Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun issuing checks to Iron County communities included in the federal disaster declarations. The town of Oma and the city of Montreal should be receiving checks for $5,417 and $3,206 respectively in the coming days for the costs they spent on “protective measures,” according to Iron County Emergency Management Director Stace...
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Evelyn P. Perelli, 96, of Montreal, Wis., passed away on April 8, 2018, at Aspirus Ironwood Hospital. Evelyn was born on July 25, 1922, in Mellen, Wis., to Casper and Theresa (Beyer) Wasieleski. She graduated from Mellen High School. During World War II, she worked for the war effort in Chicago; and after the war, she worked at resorts around Little Bohemia in Manitowish Waters, Wis. She married James Perelli Jr. in 1947 and was a homemaker. She enjoyed the woods, walking, fish...
By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The Michigan State Police Wakefield Post 86 recently had three troopers join its ranks. Stefin Robinson, Paul Maxinoski and Evan Fezatt completed 28 weeks at the MSP's training academy and all three said the training was "intense." "I thought I was in good shape going in, but I'm definitely in better shape now," Fezatt said. F/Lt. Donald Horn, commander of the Wakefield Post, recognized how difficult it is to become a trooper. "For a recru...
Tuesday, April 9 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Patterson courts or Ironwood Memorial Building. 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. Tiny Tot story time, 10 a.m., Wakefield Public Library. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Golden Dragon. Mercer Lioness Blood Drive, noon – 4 p.m., Mercer Community Center, 2648 W. Margaret Street, for appointment, call 7...
BOERNE, Texas - Betty (Gill) Carlson, 98, of Boerne, passed away after a short illness on Sunday, March 31, 2019, with family by her side. Betty was born on Nov. 11, 1920, to the late John Gill and Esther (Newberg) Gill. Betty grew up in Ironwood, Mich., and graduated in 1938 from Luther L. Wright High School. She attended Gogebic Community College and worked for the Ironwood School District prior to her marriage to Eugene Carlson, also of Ironwood, in 1942. Betty and Eugene lived in Montreal an...
Monday, April 8 Men’s Bible study, 8 a.m., Bessemer Housing Community, community room, 906-667-0469. Mercer Tai Chi, 9 a.m., Mercer Community Center. Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, Wis. 715-561-4450. National Finnish American Festival Board of Directors, 10 a.m., Little Finland, Kimball. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30 p.m., All Saints Lutheran Church, Wakefield. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. a...
Saturday, April 6 Men’s Breakfast, 8 a.m., Havenwood Baptist Church, 501 Copper St., Hurley. 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, April 7 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Mercer Health and Wellness Pic...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] BESSEMER — The Bessemer city council voted Monday evening to accept responsibility for a pending $9,222 state grant that would provide surveying funds for the continuation of the Western Gateway Trail. The council also voted to approve a related contract with Coleman Engineering Company of Ironwood, since it is engineering the trail project. If received, the grant will fund final surveying of a planned trail route through land that Pat Steiger of Bessemer has agreed to sell to the state. “This is the eas...
Tuesday is election day in Wisconsin with many candidates across the state running for local offices. In Iron County, the elections are for town offices and school boards, as well as a pair of seats on the Montreal city council. There’s also a referendum on the Mercer ballot concerning the approval of an application for a half percent tax Premiere Resort Area Tax. Approval of the referendum is just one step in the process of creating the new tax, according to Iron County Clerk Mike Saari. The only other items on the ballots here are a pair o...
