Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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WAKEFIELD - Plans to move forward with the removal of two condemned buildings was announced Monday night at the Wakefield City Council meeting. The Laundromat along Sunday Lake Street and the property at 111 Bedell will be demolished and removed within the season and city manager Margot Anderson's goal is before the 4th of July. The council approved the calling for bids for equipment for the demolition and removal of these buildings. The council also decided to change the plans of the revolver...
Schools throughout Gogebic County will be safer in the upcoming months after they are equipped with special classroom door locks as part of a Upper Peninsula-wide grant from the Department of Homeland Security. The grant money, which is directed through the Michigan State Police, will install "Nightlock Lockdown Door Barricades for Extreme Emergencies" on the interior of classroom doors that are designed to prevent entry to the room in case of an emergency, such as a school shooting. According...
IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area Schools Board of Education approved a one-day unpaid suspension for school bus driver Jerry Hitter after the bus he was driving was involved in an accident in Negaunee while returning home from the regional basketball tournament in Marquette on March 16. According to Negaunee Police Chief Jay Frusti, Hitter was driving west on U.S. 41 at 8:30 p.m. when he didn’t notice a red light at Baldwin Avenue. Frusti said Hitter accidentally ran the light and was unable to avoid a collision with a green 2009 Dodge Caravan dri...
BESSEMER — The A.D. Johnston library was filled for Monday night’s school board meeting, with the hopes of a new Gogebic Miners (Bessemer-Wakefield-Marenisco) football coach being announced. A committee was put in place to hire a new football coach, which consists of Bessemer’s Athletic Director Tim France, Principal Dan Vander Velden and board representative Mary Beth Trudgeon. Wakefield-Marenisco’s Supreintendent Cathy Shamion and Athletic Director Mark Lane are also on the committee. “We had four applicants. … At this time we are not goi...
BESSEMER — The Bessemer Area Schools are soon going to be more secure as the district has been awarded a grant from the Michigan State Police Department as part of the department’s efforts to support school safety initiatives. Bessemer was one of the 56 public, 15 private and 11 charter schools and five sheriff’s departments across the state to receive a portion of the $4 million available in state grants, according to a Michigan State Police press release announcing the grants on Friday. “The safety of our students and educators is of paramou...
BESSEMER - Area families attended the 10th annual Family Wellness Night at Washington Elementary on Tuesday evening. The event is mostly organized by physical education teacher, Janet Hellman. "I think everybody is enjoying it," said Hellman at the event. Balloons provided by Aspirus Grand View Hospital and Dr. Micheal Gregor Family Dental filled the gymnasium. Head teacher at Washington Elementary, Diana Hansen, said there were many families out for the event, including many new faces. Tables...
KIMBALL, Wis. - Area law enforcement officers and the Hurley Fire Department responded to the scene of a 10 p.m. Friday personal injury accident on U.S. 2, near the Corkscrew liquor store, east of County D. The front end of a pickup truck was demolished, but it was unclear how many vehicles were involved in the crash. An officer at the scene said all of the people involved in the crash were transported to Aspirus Grand View Hospital by Beacon Ambulances, while firefighters and police officers...
IRONWOOD - Area high school students gathered in the gymnasium of Gogebic Community College's Lindquist Center for a Life Quest Program on Monday. The event was not open to the general public due to a lack of space, as witnessed by the bleachers filled with students. The Department of Human Services, DOVE, Inc., the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department, Community Mental Health and others had booths for the students to browse and attain more information about what is available in the communi...
MERCER, Wis. - James J. Lambert, 72, of Mercer, passed away peacefully on Feb. 19, 2015, at home with his family surrounding him. Jim was born Oct. 17, 1942, in Lockport, Ill., the son of Daniel and Alvina (Rodeghero) Lambert. He graduated from Lockport High in 1960. In 1964, Jim married the love of his life, Sharon. In 1967, he attended the police academy and became a police officer on the Lockport Police Department. He served for five years as a patrol officer and was then promoted to...
BESSEMER - Gogebic County Sheriff Peter Matonich was first on the agenda for Bessemer's city council meeting on Monday night. Matonich said the sheriff's department has been adding some new services or is currently in the process of doing so. He said the county still has a very active drug team and that the department also added a new corrections officer in 2014. Gogebic County is currently training officers on a new statewide information system, which allows the county to access statewide...
WAKEFIELD - A faulty transformer at Xcel Energy's Ironwood substation led to the 26-hour power outage in parts of Wakefield on Jan. 23-24, according to city manager Margot Anderson. She said Tuesday the transformer that went down has since been replaced by Xcel. Anderson explained why Wakefield was one of the last communities to be completely restored to power. "When power is not available through Xcel's lines, no city action at the substation can be taken to restore power," she said. She noted...
To the Editor: I support the letter to the editor published Dec. 13, 2014, from Joe Allen; unlike Nancy Warren, who stated in her letter (of Dec. 18, 2014), that 40 years of trapping and hunting does not qualify Joe as an expert in predator/prey relationships. I don’t feel that he would want to be considered an expert anyway. But the information and opinions of Joe and others like him that have spent more time in the outdoors than many of the people that make the “scientific” decisions about our wildlife should not be discounted. Since our f...
GALESBURG (AP) - More than 100 vehicles were involved in pileups on a snowy Michigan interstate on Friday, killing a trucker and igniting a fire and explosion on a semi carrying fireworks, police said. Snow, wind and poor visibility were blamed for the chain reaction of crashes on both sides of Interstate 94 in Kalamazoo County, 150 miles east of Chicago. The interstate wasn't expected to reopen until late Friday or Saturday. "As you can imagine, it's not easy to count vehicles as they pile...
Blowing snow, combined with wind chill readings of 40 below, closed Gogebic Range schools for the second time this week on Wednesday. Visibility was poor and traffic was light on Wednesday morning. Overnight winds of up to 30 mph were reported throughout the area. The sun popped out in Ironwood around 10 a.m. Wednesday, but the downtown temperature still stood at minus 9 around noon and the thermometer wasn't predicted to hit positive numbers until today. At the Luther L. Wright School in...
NEW YORK (AP) - The Waterford crystal ball is ready for its New Year's close-up. The glittering 11,875-pound ball was tested Tuesday ahead of the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, where up to a million revelers are expected to ring in 2015. Workers coiled massive cables as the ball went up and down the flagpole atop 1 Times Square. "It was such a difficult 2014, we're going to have a great celebration to ring in the new year," said Jeffrey Straus, president of the Times Square Alliance...
WATERSMEET - The Ironwood Public Safety Department hazardous materials team broke in equipment for the first time on Wednesday during a semi tractor and trailer accident on U.S. 2 in Watersmeet. Since first receiving the equipment in January, the team hadn't used it yet. "We always hope that we never have to use it," fire officer Brandon Snyder said. "But, we are prepared if we need to." In an accident on black ice, a tanker became detached from the tractor and was punctured, leaking fuel onto...
WATERSMEET - Deputies responded to a semi tractor-trailer accident on Wednesday at 6:20 a.m. and U.S. 2 remained closed through around 5 p.m. The accident occurred near mile marker 59, according to the Gogebic County Sheriff's Department. The tractor detached from the trailer, which was punctured and it leaked about 1,000 gallons of fuel. The rig was loaded with around 8,000 gallons of regular unleaded and diesel fuel. Law enforcement, the Watersmeet Fire Department, Lac Vieux Desert police and...
NEW YORK (AP) - Thousands are celebrating in the heart of Manhattan as they await the lighting of the 85-foot-tall Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center. Performers for Wednesday night's broadcast included Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett, Mariah Carey and Cyndi Lauper. Seventy-year-old Patricia Donnelly, of Greenwich, Connecticut, was there watching the lighting ceremony for the first time in 20 years. She was squeezed into a police-barricaded pen with her significant other, 74-year-old, Joseph...
IRONWOOD - A Tuesday morning raid of a residence in Ironwood's Norrie Location led to five people being taken away in handcuffs in a bust involving heroin and other drugs. The Gogebic-Iron Area Narcotics Team raid at 251 Oak St. occurred around 8 a.m. Interviews were continuing into the afternoon at the Ironwood Public Safety Department office. According to a GIANT press release, a search warrant was executed and three men and two women were arrested. They were incarcerated in the Gogebic...
Though food and other donations often increase throughout the holiday season, many people still go to bed hungry. According to the Food Bank Council of Michigan, "One in seven people in the United States does not know where their next meal is coming from." The Food Bank Council said that they are serving more working poor families than ever before, and half of the people receiving assistance are children and senior citizens. In a study conducted by Feeding America in 2012, Gogebic County...
The Michigan State Police are preparing for an extra safe Thanksgiving holiday this year. From Nov. 26 though 30, the MSP is conducting their largest Operation C.A.R.E. (Combined Accident Reduction Effort) ever. "Operation C.A.R.E. is a nationwide initiative aimed at reducing traffic crashes and fatalities on highways across the country," according to the MSP, and began in 1977. As one of the nation's longest running traffic safety programs, Operation C.A.R.E. is involved in all 50 states, some...
(AP) - Thousands of people rallied late Monday in U.S. cities including Los Angeles and New York to passionately but peacefully protest a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer who killed a black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri. They led marches, waved signs and shouted chants of "Hands Up! Don't Shoot," the slogan that has become a rallying cry in protests over police killings across the country. Activists had been planning to protest even before the nighttime a...
IRONWOOD - A winter advisory warning for lake-effect snow that could total from 12 to 18 inches remained in effect for the Gogebic Range today through noon. Wakefield and Bessemer schools closed early Monday and many evening meetings were postponed because of heavy snowfall that grew worse throughout the day. Ironwood schools were off Monday for deer hunting, but classes were scheduled to resume today, weather permitting. The lake-effect snow followed around 50 inches that fell last week across...
Dear Editor: Thank you to the Michigan State Police from Wakefield barracks, Super One and the National Honor Society students from A.D. Johnston High School in Bessemer for their donations and support during the St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry in Ironwood. Thanks to the students for their help in loading our truck. The food collected will help us feed many people in our community. We are extremely grateful for the many generous people in our area. Our sincere thanks. Tomas Santos The St. Vincent de Paul Society Food Pantry...
