Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRON RIVER, Wis. — A 54-year-old Iron River man was killed when his vehicle collided with a semi tractor-trailer east of Iron River on Wednesday. Dean A. Lusikka was pronounced dead at the scene on U.S. 2, near Crooked Lake Road, according to the Wisconsin State Patrol. The two-vehicle accident occurred at 11:59 a.m. on Wednesday. Police said a westbound pickup truck driven by Lusikka lost control on the slippery highway during “medium to heavy” snowfall throughout Bayfield County. The pickup slid into the eastbound lane of the highway, where...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MARQUETTE - Members of the Gogebic-Iron Area Narcotics Team - as well as representatives of the Michigan State Police and Drug Enforcement Administration - held a press conference with Assistant U.S. Attorney Maarten Vermaat in Marquette Thursday to announce the sentences of seven members of an Ironwood-area drug ring that authorities say was responsible for almost all of the crystal methamphetamine supply in the Ironwood-Hurley area. "The purpose...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The University of Wisconsin Iron County Extension office and the Michigan State Extension office in Bessemer are partnering to offer area teens babysitter training classes beginning in January. The training is based on the curriculum of “operation military kids,” a 4-H program serving military youth with deployed parents, according to Neil Klemme, a youth development agent with the Iron County office. Klemme said the training is a relatively comprehensive program, covering everything from...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER - After much debate, the Bessemer City Council voted 3-2 Monday in favor of seeking a business plan from the medial marijuana facility being developed at the former Big Dollar grocery store. In September, City Manager Michael Uskiewicz announced two business partners from Wisconsin and South Carolina purchased the store and planed to convert the space into a "state-of-the-art facility for producing medical marijuana." Uskiewicz said their pro...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — A weather record fell for the second day in a row in Ironwood Friday as steady rain turned into snow. After 2.45 inches of rain fell for the 24-hour period to 7 a.m. Thursday, another 1.25 inches of precipitation was recorded for the period to Friday morning, including 7 inches of slushy snow. Both the Thursday and Friday precipitation totals set daily records over a 110-year span. That brought the November precipitation total to 4.04 inches, or three times the normal amount for this time of...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] WAKEFIELD - It took approximately an hour for the student volunteers to load all the donations into vehicles Wednesday as the Michigan State Police Wakefield Post distributed 13,771 pounds of donated goods area food banks. The post had been accepting both cash and non-perishable goods donations for the past several weeks, said Post Commander F/Lt. Don Horn - including two donation events at Super One in Ironwood - as part of the state police's...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — The Ironwood Township Board of Trustees agreed Monday to draft a letter of support for a request from the Gogebic Country Club to reduce the speed limit on Country Club Road. “It wouldn’t hurt, I think, for us to include a letter of support,” said Trustee Steve Boyd. “I think their reasoning is very good, and it is dangerous.” According to information at the meeting, the speed limit for the specific section of road is 50 mph. According to a letter from the club, the organizatio...
HURLEY — It wasn’t a big bear, but it sure caused a lot of commotion. A black bear was shot and killed in downtown Hurley on Friday afternoon. It was apparently the same bear that had stolen corn from Krist Oil in an early Tuesday morning caper and had made some dashes down Silver Street in broad daylight. A dispatcher at the Iron County Sheriff’s Department confirmed Friday evening that detective Paul Samardich had shot the bear, which was too close to humans for comfort. There was reportedly concern that the bear might get too close to childr...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] IRONWOOD - A black bear was spotted at Super One Foods in Ironwood Thursday. Gary Jackson, of Ironwood, said he saw the bear sleeping under a semi truck around 12:30 p.m. The local resident said someone told him a bear was spotted sleeping in the Dumpster earlier, so he said he went out back and he saw the bear sleeping again. When it awoke underneath the semi truck, Jackson said the bear was startled and then proceeded to jump the guard rail and r...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] WAKEFIELD - To celebrate the community and school spirit, the Gogebic Miners had a parade and cheered at a pep rally Wednesday during Homecoming Week. On a "beautiful" fall evening, students from Bessemer Schools and Wakefield-Marenisco came together to show their school spirit. With the sound of a police siren, the parade got underway, led by a fleet of fire trucks, ambulances and patrol cars from local law enforcement departments. Close behind, the...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - Ironwood students will soon get a chance to try their hand at hydroponic gardening thanks to the Michigan State Police Wakefield Post after the post donated several pieces of hydroponic equipment to the school district Wednesday. The school will use the equipment to teach students about food production. "We hope to start raising our own fruits and vegetables for snacks for the children," said second grade teacher Michelle Trier, who...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER - To encourage anti-bullying at school, Michigan State Police Trooper Jerry Mazurek visited Washington Elementary in Bessemer. Early in the afternoon, Mazruek talked to Jonelle France's first grade class. Mazurek said bullying comes in two different forms -physical and verbal. To get children involved, Mazurek asked the children to give examples of bullying. "Pushing somebody," a child said. Mazurek said pushing someone is physical bullying....
IRONWOOD - Three people were arrested on drug and gun charges following a Thursday morning raid on a Coolidge Avenue residence. Gogebic-Iron Area Narcotics Team members and the Gogebic-Iron SWAT team members responded before 11 a.m. The names of the three people who were arrested were not included in a short GIANT press release. Officers entered the house with a search warrant, according to GIANT team leader Sgt. Chris Colassaco, of the Hurley Police Department. The three people who were...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER - Two audience members were escorted out of a Bessemer City Council meeting by Michigan State Police troopers Tuesday after exchanging heated comments with another audience member. While discussing a previously denied "medical marijuana dispensary," city council member Linda Nelson said the business is illegal in Michigan. "That's why Mr. (Richard) Duncanson, a licensed medical marijuana care giver, was shutdown," she said. "Medical...
CRYSTAL FALLS — Detectives with the Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team raided a residence on Thursday in Crystal Falls, according to a team news release, seizing drugs and firearms. According to the release, a search of the property — conducted by UPSET detectives, troopers from the Michigan State Police’s Iron Mountain Post and members of the Crystal Falls Police Department — resulted in the confiscation of 106 marijuana plants, over five pounds of processed marijuana and illegal firearms. A Crystal Falls man, 26, was arrested at the...
Tuesday, Sept. 15 Iron-Gogebic Integrated Family Services, 9-10:30 a.m., Iron County Courthouse, Hurley. 906-663-4045 or 715-561-2191. Wisconsin Veterans Employment Services Representative, 9-11:30 a.m., veterans service office, Hurley. 715-392-7808. Ironwood Township clean up, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Township Building, N 10892 Lake Rd, Ironwood. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Blood Pressure Screening, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., with Regional Hospice nurses, Mill Street Garden, Bessemer....
BESSEMER - Heroin use on the Gogebic Range has reached the "epidemic" stage, taking over from meth as the preferred illegal drug of choice, the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners learned Wednesday. Three local law enforcement officers addressed the county board on the deadly problem, which Michigan State Patrol Wakefield Post Commander Lt. Don Horn said will "affect all of us in one way or another." Jerry Mazurek, an MSP trooper, said the heroin comes to the area mostly from Wausau,...
WAKEFIELD - Area residents now have another avenue to dispose of old medication with the Michigan State Police Wakefield Post unveiling a new medicine drop-off box on Friday. The box will be available for residents to use during the post's hours of operation, Mondays through Fridays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., according to trooper Warren Webster. The box offers an easy, anonymous way to dispose of certain prescription medicines, Webster said, adding that while post personnel will monitor the disposal to...
ERWIN TOWNSHIP — Wednesday’s Erwin Township Planning Commission began with township Supervisor Larry Grimsby running the meeting before the commission elected its officers. William Hellen was elected chairman, John Nuce was elected vice chairman and David Pawlak was named secretary. Prior to the meeting, all three officers as well as the two other commissioners — Roger Mussatti and Jim Anderson — were sworn in by Grimsby, which Grimsby told the Daily Globe was a precaution as the township was unable to find record of the oaths being adminis...
HURLEY - Ben Schneider came into Saturday's race with a discrete, even human, bib number of 178, rather than the traditional No. 1 for the defending champion. Schneider, a nine-time defending champion coming in, maybe even felt a bit human just this once, battling an Achilles problem at Saturday's 47th annual Paavo Nurmi Marathon. It certainly didn't help the competition any, though. Schneider, 31, of Minneapolis, won the marathon in 2:42:30. Sure, it was his second-slowest Paavo winning time,...
WAKEFIELD - The Michigan State Police's Wakefield Post has some new faces as the post recently welcomed two new members, fresh from the state police academy's most recent graduating class. Troopers Andrew Tower and Kyle Swanson graduated on July 24 as two of the troopers comprising the state police's 128th Trooper Recruit School. Eighty-six recruits began the training - 62 of which graduated - which lasted 21 weeks and covered a wide range of topics, according to Tower, including training in...
IRON RIVER, Wis. — A logging truck driven by a Hurley man was involved in a 1:36 p.m. Thursday accident that is under investigation by the Iron River Police Department. Police said a 2003 Toyota Tundra was westbound on U.S. 2, near Iron River, driven by Sue Beard, of Wyoming, Ohio. Beard’s vehicle crossed the center line and struck the rear driver’s side wheels of a loaded pulp truck that was eastbound on the highway, operated by David R. Bouillion, of Hurley. Beard’s vehicle went under the rear tires of the pulp truck, spun around and ended u...
HURLEY - On a bright, sunshiny day in downtown Hurley, locals and visitors lined Silver Street for the annual Iron County Heritage Parade on Saturday. Beginning with the national anthem sung by Hurley native Susan Walesewicz, floats,vehicles, people and animals made their way down Silver Street to celebrate Iron County. "The annual Heritage Days Parade was well attended on Saturday with numerous floats, local organizations and the Hurley Alumni Band entertaining the crowd," said Rita Franzoi,...
IRONWOOD - A semi-truck driver knocked down utility lines on Houk Street on Tuesday afternoon. According to an Xcel Energy employee on the scene, a semi truck driver traveling on the street was too tall and snagged the wires, causing two poles to break. Wires ended up on the ground. Electricity, telephone and cable service was interrupted in the area, including three residences on Houk Street. The Xcel Energy employee said the driver left the scene but later found by police. Jim Kilponen, one...
