Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - A renovated downtown war memorial will be dedicated this afternoon by members of the American Legion Post 5. A veterans honor guard will open Festival Ironwood with a flag ceremony at 4 p.m. today at Depot Park. The honor guard will then hold a separate flag raising ceremony at the nearby veterans memorial on the northwest corner of Suffolk and Ayer streets at 4:30 p.m. The ceremony is to mark the completion of the work to remove tall...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission did not act on the city planning commission recommendation to increase the number of available marijuana retail establishment licenses on Monday, with members adding the matter could be revisited after a year or longer. With the likelihood that the businesses that were tenatively approved for city licenses, pending state of Michigan approval, will not start operating in less than six months, the commission hesitated to establish a date to review the q...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Drivers on U.S. 2 and M-28 in Wakefield will find delays as flaggers work to juggle opposing traffic onto one available lane on each road. "We're trying real hard to keep everybody safe," said Mike Fercello, a laborer and flagger with Veteran-Co of Minneapolis. "So we have to make people wait. That's just the way it is." He said that an intersection such as that of U.S. 2 and M-28 is especially difficult to manage as one person has to stand...
By Zachary Marano [email protected] IRONWOOD - Longtime opera fans and new listeners alike gathered in Miners Memorial Heritage Park on Saturday to hear a selection of recordings curated by tenor Miles Mykkanen. Mykkanen, who is also artistic director of the Emberlight Festival, provided commentary and context on 18th- and 19th-century compositions by Mozart and Beethoven. During the event, Mykkanen announced his plans to "make Ironwood a little hub for opera, and it starts today."...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Three passenger airline companies will present their bids to be the next Essential Air Service carrier for the Gogebic-Iron County Airport later this month. The Gogebic-Iron County Airport Board scheduled a special meeting for July 22 to hear proposals from Denver Air, Southern Airways Corporation, and AirChoice One. The meetings will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the airport terminal building to accommodate arrivals and opportunities to view aircraft that may be part of t...
MARENISCO TOWNSHIP - Members of the Marenisco Township Volunteer Fire Department received several layers of MedEvac training in recent weeks, thanks to flight staff who work in the local region. The most exciting component of the training occurred on July 2 when a MedEvac crew landed a helicopter on the old athletic field next to the former Marenisco K-12 School in Marenisco. Pilot Mike Gross told the Globe that the crew members - which included flight nurses Kevin Mittelsteadt and Scott Pupp -...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Members of the Wakefield Volunteer Fire Department worked on Wednesday evening to burn what remained of a city house that already had sustained a winter fire. "It was a total loss to begin with," said Fire Chief Mike Singleton of what had been a one-story house at 108 Ahola Ave., directly north of U.S. 2. He added that the cause of the original fire was believed to be electrical. Although two persons had been living in the home before it...
By Zachary Marano [email protected] IRONWOOD — Art in the Park will return to Miner’s Memorial Heritage Park on Friday as part of the Emberlight Festival. In addition to the art installations in the park, there will be performance art and book club events in the coming weeks. The first performance infusion will be “Miles on Mozart” at site 18 in the park. At the event, Emberlight Festival’s artistic director Miles Mykkanen will play recordings of his favorite classical music as well as highlights from his upcoming recital at the Histo...
By Zachary Marano [email protected] HURLEY - Construction crews started removing the U.S. 51 bridge over U.S. 2 Tuesday to help make way for a new single lane roundabout. The work included removing the road deck from north half of the bridge. All traffic will continueto be directed to the eastbound lanes until the north half of the bridge is dismantled, according to Project Engineer Erik Lundwall. The north half of the bridge covers the former westbound lanes of U.S. 2. "The north half...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP — At their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday evening, members of the Wakefield Township Board of Trustees learned from Supervisor Mandy Lake that shooting noise originating in Wakefield Township has resulted in a complaint from a Wakefield city resident on neighboring property. The problem already had been discussed at a June 28 meeting of the Wakefield City Council, wherein City Manager Robert Brown, Jr. had explained that the matter is out of the city’s jurisdiction. Lake is als...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - A commons area of the nearly completed Pat O'Donnell Civic Center will not only have bay windows overlooking Mt. Zion, the wall will also have a new "Find Your North" sign with the Ironwood logo, which was delivered to the facility last week. "It's beautiful," said Michelle Rigoni-Sivula, civic center manager. "I just think that it's wonderful." The 200 pound sign of metal and wood was built by students of the Northwoods Manufacturing...
By Zachary Marano [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Gogebic County Fair Board met on Monday to discuss business as the first day of the fair is only five weeks away on Aug. 12. Items on the meeting agenda included finding business vendors for the vacant spots at the fair and making the fairgrounds ready for the big event. Fair coordinator Terrtu Anderson said that the fair is low on vendors this year. Many vendors simply do not have enough staffing to attend this year’s fair, she said. Board member Holly Ramme said she knows a ven...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Joy abounded in Wakefield as the community returned to a full slate of Fourth of July events after canceling most of them due to COVID-19 last year. Wakefield's regular July 4 parade, as well as its children's parade, also had been cancelled in 2018 due to thunderstorms. A Saturday Community Picnic in Eddy Park drew a crowd of people who filled the main pavilion and then spread throughout the park lawn and over to the beach area. John and Anna...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] BESSEMER - Bessemer marked the Fourth of July with a slew of activities over the past week, including a big weekend of events, ending with its traditional Thunder of the Mountain fireworks display over Massie Field. The celebrations began with the traditional Poncho's salute at 6 a.m. The salute was followed by a Sunday worship service in Bluff Valley Park at 9 a.m. Families gathered later in Massie Field for games, which included sack races and a...
HURLEY — Iron County sales tax is up and it may be due to online shopping, or at least its ability to track purchaser origin for tax purposes, according to reports at the county board of supervisors meeting on Tuesday. The monthly sales tax for June was $230,834, according to the report from county clerk Michael Saari. That is a $66,992 or 29% increase over the June 2020 total of $231,834. Every month of 2021 so far has a double-digit increase over the previous year. “That is really good,” Saari said. County Board Chair Joseph Pinardi said he a...
WAKEFIELD - Thursday evening's 45th Annual Hometown Variety Show was loaded with local talent, including several musicians, a living history performer, a 45-year-old comedy act, and - for the first time - fire spinners. The nearly two-hour show, which normally takes place in the gym of the Wakefield-Marenisco K-12 School, instead was held this year outside of the building, facing Sunday Lake. Denise Haas, known as "Big D," acted as emcee for the show, which started with the audience reciting...
IRONWOOD — Summer art classes will return this month at the Downtown Art Place. The programs will provide participants with opportunities to learn new skills from artists from the local studio. According to a news release from the DAP, classes will be held from July 26 to Aug. 12. This year’s events will kick off with “Ceramics with Candace” at the DAP Clay Studio on July 26. The complete summer classroom schedule can be found on the DAP website. The website says the classes are open to all ages, but children under the age of 10 must be acco...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors decided 5-7 against a resolution declaring the county a Second Amendment sanctuary at its Tuesday meeting. The resolution should have been a discussion item but was added as an action item on the agenda, said board chair Joseph Pinardi. A discussion would have been preferable to consider possible revisions that might have made the resolution more acceptable, he said. Pinardi said he was a gun owner but didn’t see the need for the resolution. He, alo...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] BESSEMER - The city of Bessemer paid homage to area veterans with its annual Tree of Honor ceremony on Wednesday evening. Each year, the Fourth of July committee holds the event to pay tribute to area veterans by having their names read during the ceremony and placed on a plaque by the Tree of Honor, a spruce tree, which is located in a small park on Sophie Street. The tree was lit up with small red, white and blue lights during the ceremony. The...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — Work on Ironwood’s $2 million water and sewer project involving several areas of the city could be completed by the end of July, according to the project engineer at the city commission meeting on Monday. The city commission 5-0 approved a $22,326 change order for Jake’s Excavating and Landscaping, LLC, the project contractor. The change included $9,108 for the water line portion and $13,218 for the sewer line portion. “We’ve run into some things, many of them very routine, that we n...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] RAMSAY - The Gogebic Miners girl's softball team will be playing at Ramsay Field next year. The Bessemer Township board voted 4-0 on Monday, to allow the school district to use its field for home games starting in spring of 2022. Township Supervisor Jeff Randall said he was on "cloud nine" when superintendent of Bessemer Area Schools Dan Niemi and a couple school board members approached him recently to request use of the field. "I thought it was a...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The band that started the monthly First Friday live-stream performances nearly a year ago will be the first to welcome back live music from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 2 at the Ironwood Downtown City Square. The Kalamazoo-based Myron Elkins and the Dying Breed came to Ironwood in September 2020, intending to perform their first Upper Peninsula appearance before a First Friday audience. Revised COVID-19 rules on gatherings made the band the first live-stream First Friday performance witho...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD — After discussing limited progress on a sensitive situation regarding Plymouth Lake, members of the Wakefield City Council voted Monday evening to send the issue back to the Planning Commission for further discussion. The action related to a report from City Manager Robert Brown Jr., who explained limited progress made in a June 18 meeting, in which he met with Plymouth Lake property owners Harry Butler and Rod Ritter, as well as several other city and local trail officials. It had been h...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — A shoreland restoration project to improve navigation on three miles of the Montreal River from Norrie Park is now in the final project agreement phases, according to reports at the Downtown Ironwood Development Authority meeting on Thursday. Tom Bergman, director of community development for the city of Ironwood said, the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund Board has granted final approval of the $150,500 proposed project to include $25,200 in city matching funds and an additional $...
