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Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP —The United States Peace Corps is 59-years-old this week and Peace Corps Volunteers around the world are celebrating its founding. Here in Ironwood Township, Virginia Kretschmar — who volunteered with the Peace Corps from 1987 to 1989 — has organized a dinner for the last six years as a reunion of local volunteers. This year’s dinner will be held on Saturday at 6 p.m. at the Elk & Hound. Anyone interested in learning more about the Peace Corps is also welcome to attend. During the dinne...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The Regional Hospice Services has been raising funds and bringing the community together through its annual polar plunge for the last 14 years. The annual event has people of all ages raising money to jump into freezing cold water. Jumpers range in age from 9 to 93, with 40 committed jumpers expected to participate this year. “Our goal is to raise awareness as to what we have to offer and of course to raise funds,” said Matt Agee, volunteer coordinator for Regional Hospice Services. Registrat...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Members of the Wakefield Township Board of Trustees voted Tuesday evening to approve their 2020-21 fiscal year budget, which included projected revenues of $224,520. The vote included approval of a 4.63 millage, which Supervisor John Cox said was unchanged from the previous year. "Our projected revenue has gone up substantially from last year, largely due to Northern National Gas Company taxes," said Cox, who is also the board chair. State...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — The 50-50 prize from the Ironwood Class of 2020’s fundraiser this weekend is still unclaimed. The winning ticket at the senior class’ spaghetti and chicken dinner fundraiser Sunday at the Elk and Hound was Ticket No. 890698. The person with the winning ticket can contact the Ironwood school to claim their prize. The winners of the other raffles held during the dinner can be found on the Ironwood Area Schools’ Facebook page....
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] BESSEMER — The Bessemer City Council voted Monday evening to file a letter of intent with the state’s Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund, which the city expects to provide funding in relation to the required replacement of lead components within the city’s private water lines. The action follows a Jan. 20 vote by the council to accept the terms of the Escanaba office of C2AE, which will handle the private property component of the 2021 Bessemer utility project. The 2021 project, which will be funde...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Seventh graders from Bessemer's A.D. Johnston Middle School recently attended a snowshoeing and winter survival field trip at Wolverine Nordic Trails in Ironwood Township. The field trip was led by Brian Doughty of Michigan Tech as one of MTU's winter field trip offerings. The trip began at the chalet where Doughty presented the students with a scenario where the students were on a plane that crashed in Canada during the winter. In the scenario, all of the people on the...
BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Road Commission announced Monday that spring weight restrictions will take effect for county roads as of noon Thursday. A 5-ton limit will be enforced on all local county roads, according to the announcement, due to the minimal surface support and susceptibility of frost heave on the local roads — including the gravel roads. On the primary county road system, the 35% reduction in axle loading required by Michigan’s frost laws will be in place. This allows trucks to remain at normal weight on the major routes throu...
MONTREAL, Wis. - The difference in weather from last year's event was reflected in the turnout, as almost 60 people came out to the second annual Hygge Hike at the Montreal Ski Trails Saturday. "Last year, there was a 30-below wind chill; this year, I think it's 37 (degrees) today," said Rebecca Holm, one of the Northern Iron County Engaged Residents members who helped organize the hike. "A huge difference that brought more people - we went from having five participants last year to having...
KIMBALL, Wis. - The line stretched out the door and into the parking lot of the Kimball Community Center at one point, as residents came out to support the Kimball Volunteer Fire Department's annual turkey dinner Sunday. Organizers were pleased with the turnout, estimating at least 700 people bought tickets to the dinner, either showing up in person, placing take-out orders or having meals delivered. "Even with the line out to the sidewalk there were still open seats, so there was a good flow,"...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Members of the Split Rock Trail Association welcome local residents to participate in a candlelight snowshoe walk on March 8 at 7 p.m. in Wakefield. People wishing to participate in the "Under the Super Moon" snowshoe event should report to the SRTA trail access site by turning north at the caution light on Putnam Street in Wakefield, and then traveling eight-tenths of a mile to the access site on the left of the road. A related social event,...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — The litigation filed by several local governmental entities seeking to force their insurance companies to cover the tax money lost in former township treasurer Jyl Olson-DeRosso's embezzlement will continue after a judge ruled there wasn't enough evidence for a summary disposition last week in Gogebic County Circuit Court. Ontonagon County District Judge Janis Burgess, who is hearing the case, ruled against granting the plaintiffs' request for summary disposition as she found there w...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — The search for a new administrator of the Gogebic Conservation District is expected to get underway in the near future, following the death of Jim Finley earlier this month. “He did a huge job for us, and will be difficult to replace,” said James Wojcik, the chair of the conservation district. Finley died Feb. 13 of complications from COPD at Aspirus Ironwood Hospital, according to his obituary. Wojcik said the district is finalizing the job description for the administrator posit...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - Iron County's board room was packed Thursday night as Wisconsin Department of Transportation representatives provided an update on a pair of planned projects in Iron County, including the construction of a roundabout at the U.S. 2/U.S. 51 intersection. Andy Dana, with the engineering firm Ayres Associates, provided some background for the roundabout project for those who may have missed the previous public meeting in August. "The reason why...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - Other than a potential light snow Friday morning, the weather looks to be warm and sunny for the next several days. Ironwood could have scattered and isolated snow showers early Friday, but it should wind up around noon, said Taylor Prislovsky, meteorologist, the National Weather Service in Marquette. Most of the snow will be in the eastern Upper Peninsula at that point, he said. "It should just be a dusting," Prislovsky said of the...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — The members of Ironwood Masonic Lodge No. 389 are inviting the community to show off their snowman-making skills next week. The lodge is sponsoring a build a snowman contest as part of the city’s monthly First Friday activities March 6. “It’s just so the kids can get out and have some fun,” said Jeff Nielsen, who currently leads the lodge. The event is scheduled to take place from 4 to 7 p.m. at Ironwood’s Depot Park, according to organizers and is open to anyone under the age of 15....
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Carol E. Johnson, 83, of Ironwood passed away on Feb. 20, 2020, at her home in Ironwood. She was born on Jan. 17, 1937, in Ironwood, daughter of Axel and Laura (Foss) Jacobson. She attended Central Grade School and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in 1954. On June 2, 1956, Carol was married to Richard "Dick" Johnson at Grace Lutheran Church in Ironwood by the late Rev. John Kendall. Dick preceded her in death in 2006. She was employed by Cohodas Paoli Warehouse...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] BESSEMER - The Bessemer City Council held a forum to find common ground and possible solutions among marijuana growers and those who complain about the odor of unfiltered processing. "This gets us moving in the right direction together," said Terry Kryshak, council member and mayor pro temp. "We don't have to keep pointing fingers." Charly Loper, city manager, said the meeting was a good way for people with varying opinions and experiences with...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced Tuesday that Ironwood's proposed Downtown City Square project to create recreational and community space from a vacant lot was officially approved. The Michigan Strategic Fund Board approved $1.47 million in Community Development Block Grant funds under the public facilities improvements category for the project. MEDC had tentatively approved the project for funding but the final...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors set the salaries for the county’s three elected officials for the next four years Tuesday. The resolution approved Tuesday sets the salaries for the clerk, treasurer and register of deeds offices through the year 2024. Clerk Mike Saari said the figures included an increase to offset the raises other county employees got in 2017 and 2018, so the elected officials got the same increase as everyone else. “I took what every other employee received (in raise...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The Upper Peninsula Honor Flight brought the monuments and memorials of Washington to the veteran residents of Gogebic Medical Care Facility on Tuesday. Heidi Brown, registered nurse and director of activities for the full time care center in Wakefield, said the U.P. Honor Flight use one of the documentary videos they make of each flight as a guided tour of the actual one-day veteran flights they make twice a year. "For many reasons...
