Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By KIM E. STROM [email protected] BESSEMER - The Bessemer City Council heard a report Monday on the upcoming major sewer and water project for 2021. The $21.4 million project will be overseen by the architectural and engineering firm C2AE and will begin May of 2021. Darren Pionk, project manager for C2AE, said they are hoping to do the work in small segments and are trying to time the work to accommodate another project on U.S. 2. According to Pionk, they are a bit behind schedule but...
IRONWOOD — The local teen wanted on a felony warrant has been taken into custody, the Ironwood Public Safety Department has announced on Facebook Sunday. Haze Mitchell-Gray Reese, 18, agreed to turn himself into local law enforcement and the Gogebic County Sheriff’s Department took him into custody at approximately 12:30 Sunday, according to IPSD Sgt. Matt Sterbenz. Reese had been wanted on felony charges of breaking and entering a building and receiving and concealing stolen property, according to a post on the IPSD’s Facebook page Frida...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] MERCER, Wis. - The Mercer Public Library will host a photography presentation of Hokkaido, Japan, at 4:30 p.m. today, in the adjoining community center and the program is free and open to the public. Gary and Ginny Theisen, part-year residents of Mercer, and longtime supporters and volunteers with the library, will offer a photo presentation of Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. The couple were on the island in February, and the talk will be a...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - The members and supporters of Ironwood's Northwind Natural Food Co-op gathered at Cold Iron Brewing Sunday for the co-op's 40th anniversary celebration. "We're celebrating 40 years, we've had numerous locations. We've had (the present) location 20 years," co-op board president Jackie Powers said, referencing the store's location on South Suffolk Street. "We're kind of an anchor store for downtown Ironwood." However, she said the co-op is...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] IRONWOOD - Former Bessemer resident Miles Mykkanen brought urban flair to the Historic Ironwood Theatre on Saturday night, and the packed audience could not have been warmer. The show, which was laced throughout by Mykkanen's infectious enthusiasm, was based on the work of 23 different composers and included a review of the young artist's history, with particular attention to the past year, during which he won prestigious honors as a classic tenor singer i...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — A portion of North Moore Street near Bluff Valley Park in Bessemer will be temporarily closed Tuesday for some sewer work. The location of the work also means cars won’t be able to access Bluff Valley Park Tuesday, according to city manager Charly Loper. “(People) can walk in from State Street, but the parking area will be very difficult to get to,” Loper said, referring to the park. The city project is designed to repair a part of the sewer that was damaged in the June 2018 storm,...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - Jim Kaufman achieved many goals in life before following through on his passion for astronomy. He was an aerospace engineer. He earned a private pilot's license. He retired before age 55. Kaufman said his fascination with the sky and the universe was fueled by a childhood immersed in science and science fiction. Growing up in the Flats of Ironwood, he recalls chasing what he thought was a UFO flying north at night with his friends. "When...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] IRONWOOD - Filmmaker Dirk Wierenga of Grand Haven began a 1,000-mile journey in March to bring national awareness to what rural areas, like those in the Upper Peninsula, have to offer. He plans to shoot a documentary entitled "Route 2 Elsewhere" and write an accompanying book. He spoke with the Daily Globe in Ironwood Friday about the project. The route - much of it along U.S. 2 - begins in Sault Ste. Marie and ends in Williston, N.D. Wierenga said...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — An Ironwood man will serve over 7 years in prison on a drug charge after he was sentenced in Gogebic County Circuit Court. Donald Pierre Jett, 52, was sentenced to at least 87 months in prison for possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine Wednesday. The potential maximum sentence for the charge is 30 years, as Jett was found to be a habitual offender — which extends the 20-year maximum sentence the charge carries. Jett pleaded guilty to the charge in July as part of plea agr...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Public Safety Department announced Wednesday night that several local law enforcement agencies executed a search warrant in Ironwood earlier that day in connection to a series of local thefts. An IPSD spokesperson said the department received “numerous” reports from citizens about vehicles and garages being broken into recently and items stolen. The Michigan State Police received an “actionable tip that they shared with the Public Safety Department,” the spokesper...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY, Wis. - The Hurley Education Foundation added $20,508 to its budget thanks to a community that puts students before profits. For the past nine years the Cash for Kids program of Midland Services, Inc., has allowed the customer-owners of the cooperative business organization to forego their annual percentage of cash and equity profits to several area school districts, said Trent Allen, general manager of Midland Services Inc., which brands...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] BESSEMER - Promoting the downtown area and helping local businesses to succeed was the focus of discussion during the meeting of the Bessemer Downtown Development Authority Thursday evening. City Manager Charly Loper began the meeting with a presentation of what the organization has been doing throughout the year. The state requires two presentations a year. From providing facade funding to helping local business pop up shops to beautification projects a...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] BESSEMER — In the county administrator’s report to the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday, Juliane Giackino said she is working with legislators to finally resolve a six-year-old pension fund issue. As a member of the five county Western Upper Michigan Manpower Consortium with Houghton Keweena, Iron and Ontonagon counties, a $330,000 shortfall in 2013 has grown to $970,000 for the county owned pension program in 2019, Giackino said following the meeting. In June 2013, the state man...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] RAMSAY - Now that Bessemer Township officials have decided to tear down the Ramsay post office building, customers are waiting to hear whether there will be a local post office again. The U.S. Postal Service closed the facility in March due to structural damage and safety concerns. Bessemer Township owns the building. Township officials and residents want service restored in another building in Ramsay, Township Supervisor Jeff Randall said in a phone...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY, Wis. — A Wisconsin senator is trying again to address the issue of border towns not being able to watch some Green Bay Packer games when local stations in neighboring states air other games instead. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., re-introduced S.2454, the “Go Pack Go Act” that requires cable, satellite and other video providers to offer Wisconsin subscribers access to programming from broadcast television stations in a Wisconsin media market. “Every Packers fan across our state should be able...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - While the Ontonagon Village Council has been considering the question of an ordinance to allow the licensing of marijuana facilities and businesses in the village or adopting an ordinance to prohibit them, the crowd at Monday's council meeting left no doubt about what they wanted. Speaker after speaker called on the council to opt-out of permission for such business in Ontonagon. Tim Guzek, a former Ontonagon police chief and officer, and county...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] MONTREAL - The Montreal City Council discussed the progress of resolving water system issues within the city at its meeting Tuesday. The rehabilitation of pumps and reopening of well No. 5 are on the docket next for repair. According to Mayor Erik Guenard, the total well rehabilitation project will cost the city approximately $123,000. "That's a conservative estimate," said Guenard in a phone interview post meeting. "We're looking at replacing...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY, Wis. — The Hurley City Council on Tuesday added vaping to the juvenile tobacco use ban and revised three gaming ordinances. The council 5-0 approved amending the city ordinance prohibiting individuals under the age of 18 from purchasing or possessing tobacco and nicotine products to include vaping paraphernalia. Aldermen Jay Aijala was not present. There was no discussion on the ordinance but the language noted it had been possible for juveniles to legally purchase some alternative n...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] RAMSAY - The Bessemer Township board heard a report Monday on the ongoing project to improve Memorial Park, including the addition of a swimming area along the Black River. The board also discussed progress regarding digging of the new swimming hole. Supervisor Jeff Randall said parts of the project were held off until fall so water levels would be lower. "It is close to being dug out," he said. The swimming hole is projected to be 60 feet by 260 feet...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission on Monday approved an Industrial Facilities Tax Exemption for Waupaca Foundry, Inc., which opened in July at the New Ironwood Industrial Park. The 3-0 approval with commissioners Joseph Cayer and Kim Corcoran not present, will remove 50 percent off the millage rate equal to about 11 mills as a tax break for the company. The commissioners said the company has a positive impact on the city’s economy with a $4.3 million investment for an existing facility at...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield City Council on Monday renewed a five-year state trunkline maintenance contract with the Michigan Department of Transportation. The approval was addressed via the passage of Resolution 265, which covers the maintenance period of Oct. 1, 2019 through Sept. 30, 2024. The state defines a trunkline highway as “a road, highway or freeway under the jurisdiction of the department, and usually designated with an M, US, or I preceding the route number.” State trunklines in this regio...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — Three speakers from different backgrounds and circumstances regarding suicide all shared a similar message that depression is not a dead end and that help is there for anyone who reaches out. “We want to make sure that we are tearing down that shroud, and that it’s not shameful or a sign of weakness if you’re suffering from depression to reach out for help,” said Pat Gallinagh, president of the Gogebic Range Suicide Prevention Council, the event co-sponsor of the sixth annual Break the...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - The cool weather proved perfect for around 135 mountain bike riders who participated in the Copper Peak Trails Fest on Saturday in Ironwood. With 7-mile sport race and 16-mile expert race courses navigating the Black River and ascending nearly 600 feet to the Copper Peak ski flying jump, the riders would have overheated in hot weather, said Paul Anderson, race director. The downhill ride was fast and winding with jumps and bridges, he...
