Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Pat O’Donnell Civic Center Board will be exploring possibilities with the construction of the new facility that is scheduled to start this summer. The discussion started with a special meeting on Jan. 14, said Jim Collins, board chair. The board scheduled the special meeting to approve the purchase of a commercial skate sharpener that won’t require highly trained operators to sharpen skates, he said. The agenda also included the construction of the permanent facility to provide an op...
LANSING — State Rep. Greg Markkanen, R-Hancock, voted in favor of a plan his office said would help efforts to expand rural access to high-speed broadband internet in the Upper Peninsula Wednesday. “Families and businesses across the Upper Peninsula need access to secure, reliable and affordable internet service,” Markkanen said in a statement. “The world today revolves around technology, and high-speed internet connection has become essential for everyday life. Expanding internet access to underserved areas will help students complete schoolwo...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Garland City Chamber Players will be celebrating the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven all year, including this Sunday’s 3 p.m. performance in the second-floor mezzanine of the Historic Ironwood Theatre. The chamber group will be performing Beethoven’s “Violin Sonata No. 4.” The 1801 piece known as the German composer’s Opus 23, came just a year after completing his first symphony. “We’ll be doing Beethoven every time,” said Andrew McInnes, a violinist with the chamber, rega...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — Area elementary students will soon join siblings and parents and sometimes grandparents in saying they learned to ski on the mild slopes of the conveniently located Mt. Zion. Gogebic Community College has operated a ski instruction program for elementary students ever since the school took over operation of the hill in 1968, said Jim Vander Spoel, director of the Ski Area Management Program and Mt. Zion Operations. Youth ski programs p...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - The members of the Ironwood Chamber of Commerce gathered at the Aurora Club Tuesday to celebrate the contributions a chosen few make to the community at the chamber's annual awards banquet. "The 2020 Ironwood Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet was an outstanding success, both in terms of the number of chamber members that came - we had over 120 - as well for the true worthiness of the award winners," said chamber director Michael Meyer....
BY JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon County Board of Commissioners Tuesday learned that boilers at the Ontonagon County Sheriff Department do not meet the requirement to provide the heat necessary for the building. One boiler is down, Jeff Miller of Automated Comfort Controls told the board. He said the 35-year-old boiler is outdated and inefficient and there are some parts no longer made. The second boiler is also in bad shape. After a discussion, the board decided to accept the quote of $64,449 for two boilers that w...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - There is a social side to snowshoeing if you ask the people who supported the Superior Snowshoe Walk events for the past 10 years. Around 50 area residents gathered at Manny's Restaurant in Ironwood on Wednesday evening for the third of 10 weekly snow shoe events at area trails with a sponsored social following. Manny's hosted the Cottonwood Tree Walk this week and moving forward other events are organized by different groups and...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] BESSEMER - A Wakefield man said the life-saving efforts of a law enforcement officer has given him a new outlook on life. Bryon Flohaug, a 51-year-old Wakefield electrical contractor employee with a wife and son, wanted to attend the Gogebic County Commission meeting Wednesday, where the commissioners joined the Gogebic County Sheriff's Office in honoring the deputy who is credited with saving his life. "If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be here," he...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — A Lac du Flambeau man will spend more than two decades in prison for his role in the 2017 slaying of a childhood friend, Wayne Valliere Jr. Curtis A. Wolfe, 28, was sentenced in Iron County Court Wednesday to 20 years in prison and 10 years of extended supervision after his release for being a party to the crime of second degree reckless homicide, followed by 5 years in prison and 3 years of extended supervision for being a party to the crime of hiding a corpse for his role in the m...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - The Red Bull 400 is returning to Copper Peak for a third year in 2020. The company announced this year's race schedule Tuesday, with the Ironwood Township ski flying hill set to host its competition May 16. Billed as the world's steepest 400-meter race; the Red Bull 400 features competitors starting at the base of Copper Peak's landing hill, racing up it before attempting to be the first to conquer the structure itself. This year's event at Copper Peak will be the third race...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - Although not as prominent here, the concern for feline immunodeficiency virus and feline leukemia in this area is real and increasing, according to H.O.P.E. Animal Shelter in Ironwood. There are currently two cats at H.O.P.E. with feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) and the numbers of cats with feline leukemia average one to two cases annually for each disease, said Kathy Zumbrock, assistant manager of H.O.P.E. The shelter policy now...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] MARENISCO — The Marenisco Township Board of Trustees is making progress on a new, proposed ordinance that will prohibit recreational marijuana enterprise in the township. According to Township Supervisor Richard Bouvette on Tuesday, board members have reviewed a similar ordinance from Bergland. “Mr. Bucknell will adapt it,” said Bouvette, regarding Township Attorney Jim Bucknell, who also wrote the board’s original ordinance that would have allowed recreational marijuana enterprise. The board rescind...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - As part of the first business of a brand new year, members of the Wakefield-Marenisco Board of Education voted Monday evening to elect their officers. President Brad Dalbec noted that the process was "painless" in that no changes in positions occurred. Along with Dalbec, the following members were re-elected unanimously: Vice-President Micki Sorensen, Treasurer Marsha Vestich and Secretary Stacie Rooni. Persons elected abstained from voting for...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY, Wis. — Dedicating school property after people became a question of policy and direction at the Monday meeting of the Hurley School District Board of Education. Kevin Genisot, school district administrator, said the agenda item related to a school library dedication and had to do with the process first requiring a request letter to the school board. The school district would then form a review committee to include community to form a recommendation. “It is ultimately up to the school board...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area Schools’ board of education held its organizational meeting Monday, selecting a new person to chair meetings. Amanda Sprague replaces Steve Thomas as board chair, with Clancey Byrne replacing Sprague as president pro-tem. Marilyn Nezworski will continue to serve as treasurer and Caroyln Mieloszyk remains the board secretary. Along with electing officers, the board: —Adopted its schedule of meeting dates for the year. —Designated Gogebic Range Bank as the deposit...
GILE, Wis. - Ice fishing enthusiasts from as far away as Green Bay came to the Gile Flowage Saturday for the third annual Ice Fishing Jamboree. Organized by the Bank Club, the tournament had anglers competing to catch the largest pike, walleye, crappie and perch. Joe Smoczyk, one of the tournament's organizers, said the 52 anglers participating was down from last year but Saturday's snowstorm probably kept some people off the ice. The weather also likely kept the fish from biting aggressively,...
IRONWOOD — The first draft with architectural renderings of the Downtown City Square Project was presented at the Ironwood City Commission meeting Monday. Mike Foley, a project manager with Coleman Engineering, said the draft completed last week was the result of stakeholder meetings of local residents, city staff and engineers who all provided input for the project design. The two-phase project has not been finalized but it is close, he said. “There have been many iterations but this is what is boils down to,” Foley said. A complete desig...
HURLEY — A woman is dead after a Sunday morning snowmobile crash in Hurley. Iron County Dispatch received reports of a snowmobile operator being unresponsive after her snowmobile went off the trail outside of Hurley at approximately 1:52 a.m. Sunday, Iron County Sheriff Paul Samardich said in a news release. Officers with the Hurley Police Department and deputies with the Iron County Sheriff’s Department immediately responded, according to Samardich, along with Beacon Ambulance and Hurley Snowmobile Rescue. Officers located the scene of the...
BESSEMER - A snowstorm that lingered through the weekend dropped a solid base on local ski hills, which also were busy with other activities such as live music and the annual Yooperfest at Big Snow Resort's Blackjack location in Bessemer. The annual event on Saturday featured busy slopes outside, as well as an indoor art show. Even the artists addressed the theme, dressing in plaid items and/or displaying Yooper crafts such as woodworking and handmade outerwear. Deb Harvey of Wakefield was...
BESSEMER - The Monday evening meeting of the Bessemer Area Board of Education resulted in a lot of people in new positions, including a new position of dean of students/head teacher at A.D. Johnston Junior and Senior High School shared by two teachers. After a unanimous vote by the board, Richard Matrella now will assume that role for grades nine through 12, and Mark Movrich will assume the same role for grades seven and eight. Both men also will retain their current teaching positions at the sc...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - It may have been close to a week, but Aspirus Ironwood Hospital and Clinic welcomed its first baby of the new year - and new decade - into the world Jan. 6. Adria Lea Owen was born at 2:44 p.m., to Brittany and Jordan Owen, weighing 7 pounds, 13 ounces and measuring 19.5 inches at birth. The couple had Adria Lea at Aspirus Ironwood because it was the closest birthing center to the family's home in Tipler, Wisconsin - near Iron River,...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — The Gogebic Range Solid Waste Management Authority decided to keep its board leadership in place at its meeting Thursday. The Authority’s board approved keeping the chair, vice-chair and secretary-treasurer positions held by the same members for 2020. Jeff Randall will remain chair. He is the Bessemer Township representative. Mandy Lake will remain as vice chair. She represents Wakefield Township. Marlene Saari, representing Ironwood Township, will remain as secretary-treasurer....
