Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] MERCER, Wis. — The MECCA Trails Winterfest was live and in-person on Saturday, for the first time since 2020. Thirty-five people participated in the live events, which included the Flowage 15k skate, the Flowage 15k classic, and the 5k Claire D’ Loon Race. “It was just enough to make it an exciting event and some camaraderie. People enjoyed seeing each other,” said Mike Shouldice, president of the MECCA Trails Association. According to Shouldi...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] IRONWOOD — Volunteers of all ages gathered at the St. Joseph Room at the Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church in Ironwood over the weekend to make and distribute spaghetti dinners for the 47th annual La Rosa spaghetti dinner fundraiser. The event raises money for the church’s religious education programming which includes classes for preschool age children, catechism and confirmation classes, Right of Christian Initiation for Adults classes and numerous retreats offered throughout the year and speakers th...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] MERCER, Wis — The town of Mercer board of supervisors considered appointments to the Mercer Tourism Commission and ongoing issues with tourist rooming houses at its regular meeting on Thursday. Chairman John Sendra presented for approval his recommended appointments to the Mercer Tourism Commission. These appointments were: Brian Weinkopf as a resort owner located on the Turtle Flambeau Flowage, Tom Ziegler as a resort owner not located on the flowage, Tina Pemble as a motel owner, Hank Joustra as a...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] BESSEMER - The Bessemer Recreation Committee is in the process of having stands built for the little libraries that will be placed around the community. The committee discussed options for the stands, which will be built by North Country Welding in Bessemer. Committee member Trevor Jackovich took one of the libraries to the welding shop on Thursday so they could come up with some ideas for the stands. "They thought of either creating a base and burying...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Sheriff Department is interested in purchasing an incident command trailer to act as a mobile command post during prolonging incidents, Sheriff Paul Samardich said to the Iron County Law Enforcement Committee at their meeting on Monday. “Quite often, our search and rescue functions are utilized in the summertime where heat would be an issue for changing people in and out,” Samardich said to the Daily Globe. “We had several incidents in the last few years where somethi...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] BESSEMER — The city of Bessemer is looking to prohibit signage from being placed on public property that is not from a pubic institution. City manager Charly Loper said that it was discovered at the last election that the city did not have an ordinance specifically banning people from placing signs on city property. The city will hold a public hearing during the next planning commission meeting on March 1. After the hearing, the commission can recommend that the city council adopt the ordinance. The c...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD - Ironwood is celebrating the first Friday of the month with the theme of "love your neighbor." There will be a vendor fair, a film screening at the Historic Ironwood Theatre and a collaborative pride fashion show from 5-6 p.m. at Time Again Studios in downtown Ironwood. "Guests are asked to wear their best, in fashion and in solidarity, for what it means to love all and exclude none!" according to the event Facebook page. "The show starts at...
Wakefield — The city of Wakefield planning commission conducted the first reading of an amended dog ordinance that puts tighter restrictions on dog owners, but does not limit the number of animals residents can own, during a brief meeting on Tuesday night. The ordiance will be read again during the commissions next meeting on March 8. It can then be adopted and published in the newspaper. It will take affect 30 days after publication. The planning commission also held the second reading and adoption of the international maintenance code. The c...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] IRONWOOD - Nearly 20 volunteers worked Monday afternoon to shovel out a circular path in Ironwood's snow-filled Downtown City Square to make way for an ice-skating path in time for First Friday. "It was made for this, so we're going to try it out," said city commissioner David Andresen. "Hopefully, have it ready by First Friday if the weather helps us out here. We're all kind of new to this and just getting together to try and make something nice for...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The city of Wakefield is looking into changing some of the names of city streets after a mix-up with similar street names recently lead to a prolonged delay in response by emergency services, according to city manager Robert Brown. Brown said that within the city several of the street names are duplicated, such as Fifth Avenue and, Fifth Street, or are very similar such as Eddy Park Road and Eddy Street. To rename the streets would impose some inconvenience on affected residents. Once a s...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — On Saturday, about 100 people from the western Upper Peninsula and Wisconsin’s northwoods gathered together to mark the end of the Jack Frost Festival by burning their Christmas trees at the “Light Up the Night” party at the Norrie Amateur Sports Club near the Hiawatha statue in Ironwood. Embers rose high into the night sky above the fire. According to the organizers, more than 260 Christmas trees were stacked on the pile when they started...
OMA, Wis. — The Gogebic-Iron Area Narcotics Team arrested two individuals on a variety of drug charges after executing a search warrant on Riverside Road in the town of Oma on Jan. 21. George Clark, 35, and Kristi Sordahl, 39, were lodged in the Iron County Jail. They appeared in Iron County Circuit Court before Judge Anthony Stella on Jan. 23. Clark is charged with four counts of delivery of methamphetamine, and one count each of: possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine, keeper of a drug house, possession with intent to deliver m...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] BESSEMER — Gogebic County Board of Commissioners Chair Jim Lorenson is working with Emergency Management and 911 Coordinator Heidi DeRosso to secure grant funding from the state for first responder training. At the board’s meeting on Wednesday, Lorenson said there are two requirements for the grant: one is that the governmental units have a per capita taxable value of under $15,000, the other is that the training be completed by the end of the fiscal year. Lorenson said it would be wonderful if sta...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HOUGHTON — As February nears, the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department reported a decrease in the COVID-19 cases rate on Thursday. However, the updated numbers continue to show that the risk of transmission is high. “The good news is that the new case count and case rate per 100,000 population both dropped by more than 10 percent from last week,” the update says. “The bad news is that both are still extremely high and for the eighth week in a row we’ve had more than three people in the weste...
IRONWOOD - The Gogebic Community College Board of Trustees heard Tuesday a report from six students that attended the National Council on Student Leadership through the college's TRiO Student Support Services program in Orlando, Florida, this past November. The participants included Alyssa Knight, Amber Dwyer, Brianne Bastman, Emaleah Niemi, Corrin Kelly and Adelya Maxinoski. They were chosen to go through an essay competition. "The essay winners each wrote compelling pieces on the qualities and...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] BESSEMER — Erin Ross, a 4-H supervisor from Michigan State University Extension-Gogebic County, attended the Gogebic County Finance Committee meeting on Wednesday to request $76,000 of the 2021-2022 budget allocation for their programs, which led to criticism from some committee members about the office’s services. Chair Jim Lorenson said the board said $68,000 would be enough. He said that he was not opposed to allocating this amount, but he wants the Gogebic County office to show them the pro...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HURLEY - Residents from Wisconsin's Northwoods had the chance to have their voices heard by one of their elected officials when U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Hazelhurst, visited the Iron County Memorial Building in Hurley on Tuesday. Tiffany said that he comes from Washington, D.C., to various parts of his congressional district two to three times a year to take questions from his constituents and this is his first visit to Hurley as representative. "I...
ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon Area Board of Education elected its officers at the re-scheduled reorganizational meeting Tuesday. Tanya Weisinger was re-elected president of the board. Julie Kolpac was re-elected vice president and Tammy Strasser was re-elected Secretary. The new board treasurer is Natalie Morgan. The board hear that students are in class, in the building, and following protocols from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, although they were expected to be in virtual classroom mode on Wednesday because of expected s...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission authorized the calling for bids for a new water treatment plant after an update on the project from the engineering company that designed the plant at their regular meeting on Monday. Chris Larson of HDR Inc. said they have submitted the completed designs of the water treatment plant for review. Larson presented a floor plan and 3-D renderings of the plant to the commission. He said it will be located on the same property as the old pumping station on Pump Stat...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield Library board is seeking a part-time librarian as well as to fill two vacant board positions. The board announced its board member vacancies last week, and expects to post the librarian position this week. The library is temporarily closed following the resignation of library director Joel Laessig on Jan. 3, and the library board is in the process of restructuring the operation. “We are proposing a part-time librarian due to the fact that a full-time librarian with fri...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — Fans of Billy Joel will have the next best thing to seeing the songwriter in person with the 52nd Street band playing his music in a concert at the Historic Ironwood Theatre on Feb. 10. “This is a full concert show packed with hits from start to finish and features ‘spot on’ performances of the songs that made the ‘piano man’ from Brooklyn one of the top selling and beloved artists of all time. With a grand piano at center stage and a...
ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon County Animal Protection shelter is going green. During the fall spruce-up event held at the facility in October, the idea to recycle materials which were then going into the shelter’s dumpster was discussed, according to a release from Ken Raisanen, who is a cat volunteer at the shelter as well as a member of the Ontonagon Recycling Initiative committee. A proposal to begin recycling pet food containers and empty bottles from sanitizing and cleaning products was brought to the OCAP board. With the board’s appro...
