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Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] Politicians around the region are reacting to the violence in Washington D.C. Wednesday as a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol to delay the Congressional certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. The proceedings resumed later Wednesday after the Capitol was cleared by law enforcement and was completed early Thursday. “As are so many Wisconsinites and Americans, I am watching these horrifying events unfold in Washington, D.C. in disbelief. The...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY — The Hurley Police Department is embarking on a project to update its policies and procedures, according to reports at the city of Hurley Police, Fire and License Committee meeting on Wednesday. Hurley Chief of Police Chris Colassaco said revisions to administrative and operations protocols are always being conducted on an annual basis but that this year the department contracted with Lexipol, a law enforcement policies and training agency, to do a more thorough revision. “It’s a progr...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Wednesday, Jan. 6 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. 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 Comm...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Tuesday, Jan. 5 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, 6 p.m., Sharon Lutheran Church, Bessemer. area74.org. Alcoholics...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — Area full time care facilities and group homes are now scheduled for two rounds of COVID-19 vaccinations throughout January, according to local health officials. A Monday press release from the Michigan State Police said skilled nursing home residents and staff began receiving vaccinations on Monday through a pharmacy partnership for long-term care programs. A similar announcement from the state of Wisconsin noted that on-site vaccinations started Monday at skilled nursing facilities a...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] MARENISCO — Members of the Marenisco Board of Trustees learned at their regular meeting last week that one of three candidates for police chief is now out of the running. “Jason Roberts (of Ironwood) was hired by Ironwood Public Safety,” said Supervisor Bruce Mahler, who retired as chief at the end of August and then was elected to his current role after former Supervisor Richard Bouvette retired. One of two remaining applicants for the open seat as chief is Jesse Yesney of Bergland, who currently works...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] 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...
WAKEFIELD - Several local food pantries got an early Christmas gift Tuesday as the Michigan State Police's Wakefield Post distributed the goods collected during the post's annual Harvest Gathering food drive. "Just before Christmas, I think the pantries are going to be well supplied for the people who need it," said Lt. Donald Horn, commander of the Wakefield post. The post's food drive, in partnership with Super One, raised over 20,000 pounds of food for food pantries in Ironwood, Bessemer and...
IRONWOOD, Mich. - David W. Morrison, 79, of Ironwood, Michigan, went to be with our Lord on Nov. 19, 2020. David was born on June 20, 1941, in Tula, son of the late Lorenzo and Vernabelle Morrison. David graduated from Bergland High School and attended Michigan Technological University-Trade School in diesel mechanics. David is survived by his wife of 54 years, Mary Morrison; three children, Damon (Cheryl) Morrison, Lisa (Jack) Sweat and Shane (Andrea) Morrison; 16 grandchildren; and 13...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY — The Hurley City Council on Monday heard more updates on the proposed Range View Drive project that could see nearly half of costs reimbursed through the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s Multimodal Local Supplement program. Hurley Street Commissioner Scott Santini, and Jeff Seamandel, a project engineer with MSA Professional Services, the city’s engineering company, were present to update the board on progress to rebuild and widen Range View Drive from 10th Avenue to the west side...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY — The Hurley Police Department will support the Iron County Health Department and Wisconsin National Guard in conducting a public COVID-19 drive-thru testing event at the Hurley Fire Department on Tuesday, Dec. 8. In his report to the Police Fire and License Committee at its Monday meeting, HPD Sgt. Justin Colossaco said that the department provided support for a previous testing event. People will drive through the fire hall truck bay from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for testing in their vehicles a...
TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - Area food pantries say the number of people in need is stable or growing depending on the types of services provided. There has been a steady increase in demand for food and other services since the coronavirus pandemic in spring of 2019 and there does not appear to be signs of any federal relief in the near future, said the Rev. Roger Kolehmainen, program director and manager of Union Station, the food pantry ran by Restoration of the Branc...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Wednesday, Dec. 2 Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency quarterly food commodity distribution for registered families, noon to 2:30 EDT, Community Action Agency, 20141 Hwy M28 in Ewen; 2 p.m.-4 p.m.Ontonagon Community Action Agency. Christian Men of the Northland, 6:6:30 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....
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Tuesday, Dec. 1 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. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Sharon Lutheran Church, Bessemer. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, Ironwood. area74.org....
TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] MARENISCO - With Thanksgiving community events shut down from the pandemic this year a group of volunteer firefighters decided to pick up the torch and deliver meals to people from Marenisco to Ironwood on Thursday. Members of the Marenisco Township Volunteer Fire Department decided recently to step up and deliver meals to people who would otherwise be alone and not have the traditional holiday meal, along with other families who are trying to manage...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved a resolution for a license agreement with the state of Michigan to place emergency management communications equipment on state towers. The Michigan Public Safety Communications Systems co-location license agreement with Gogebic County will allow county 911 to place VHF radio equipment on the state tower site in Bessemer, said Heidi DeRosso, emergency management and 911 coordinator. The tower will provide “interoperability,” a...
HURLEY - Several local groups are partnering together to help provide Christmas gifts for those young people in Iron County in need. Northern Iron County Engaged Residents - along with the city of Hurley and the Iron County Human Services Department - have organized a giving tree where people can find out what gifts to donate. "Children in Iron County need Christmas gifts and this year has been difficult for many families. What are the youth asking for? Jeans, leggings, T-shirts and hats,...
MARENISCO - The Marenisco Township Board of Trustees addressed a list of agenda items at its Monday evening meeting, but the biggest news was that it was the final occasion for Supervisor Richard Bouvette to lead the charge. After nearly a quarter of a century leading the township, Bouvette - who will be 75 in January - wrote in his November newsletter column that he is "ready to transition from a position of some influence to obscurity as a cranky old man." After serving as the superintendent...
PLYMOUTH, Wis. - Joseph F. Radomski, 82, formerly of Gile, passed away on Nov. 10, 2020, at Waterford West in Plymouth. Joe was under hospice care for the last two months and had a good "quality of life" as he neared the closing of his chapter on earth. Joe went to his eternal life in faith and peace. Joe was born July 28, 1938, in Ironwood, Michigan, welcomed into this world by his parents Frank and Helen (Haggerson) Radomski. Joe and his parents moved to the Northside of Milwaukee where he...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] Four years after helping prevent the loss of quality ambulance services in Gogebic County, a special committee continues to explore ways to address increasing costs, cross-border regulations and rural response times. The county had considered running its own ambulance service but it makes more sense to contract, financially speaking, said Jim Lorenson, chair of the county ambulance committee. The committee formed to find immediate and long-term solutions when Beacon Ambulance could not keep up...
BESSEMER — A Wakefield man is in custody after being accused of being involved in a home invasion and several car break-ins in the city of Bessemer last week. Troopers from the Michigan State Police’s Wakefield Post were dispatched to the scene of an alleged home invasion in Bessemer on Nov. 6. A home and a car had both been entered, according to a MSP news release, where two purses and roughly $245 were allegedly stolen. The Gogebic County Sheriff’s Office had received reports of four other car break-ins in Bessemer around this time, accor...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY — The Hurley City Council on Monday approved the Halloween trick-or-treating hours following a recommendation from law enforcement to let the event go forward with safety guidelines rather than cancel this year due to COVID-19. The council set the Halloween trick-or-treating hours for 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31. Guidelines for pandemic trick-or-treating will be posted on the city’s Facebook page, along with the city police department and Iron County Sheriff’s Office Facebook pages. The c...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] WATERSMEET - Nineteen-month-old Camillé McGeshick is still alive today thanks to the quick actions of Lt. Nick Christ of the Lac Vieux Desert Tribal Police, according to Laura Kopsi, a captain and EMT with the Watersmeet Fire Department. On the afternoon of Sept. 2, McGeshick - who suffers from Down Syndrome, along with a congenital heart defect - managed to pull her tracheal breathing tube out in her sleep. Her mother, Celia Brunk, found her...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — Engineering and bidding requests to replace priority water and sanitary sewer infrastructure were approved at the Ironwood City Commission meeting on Monday. The commission unanimously approved authorizing bids for a 2021 water and sanitary sewer infrastructure project, along with the engineering services agreement with Coleman Engineering to conduct surveying, permitting, design, bidding, construction management and inspection not to exceed $339,339. The $2 million preliminary p...
TROUT CREEK, Mich. — Jacob “Jake” William Laitala, 73, passed away on Oct. 5, 2020, at his home in Trout Creek. Jake was born in Ontonagon to Pearl and Emil Laitala on Oct. 15, 1946. He went to school at Trout Creek and married Peggy Yaunke on Aug. 27, 1981, in Paynesville. He worked as a farmer for most of his life and was an avid outdoorsman. He was a veteran of the Vietnam war and served as military police in the U.S. Army. Jake is survived by his wife, Peggy; his three children, Shana Maki, Wayne (Jennifer) Laitala and Nikki Laitala; his b...
