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Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - Fans of the 1970s supergroup ABBA were treated to the timeless, uplifting music, dancing and colorful costumes of the real thing as the "ABBA Mania" tour made a stop at the Historic Ironwood Theatre on Thursday. The ABBA performers included Amy Edwards as Anni-Frid Lyngstad; Kirbi Long as Agnetha Faltskog; James Allen as Bjorn Ulvaeus, and Jeff Pike as Benny Andersson. The four have been part of several tours over seven years with the 20...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Gogebic Community College Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved the creation of an Upper Peninsula Certified Nurse Aide Academy (UP CNA). The decision will provide a full-time trainer for the program focusing on the Houghton campus, said Glen Ackerman-Behr, director of workforce development at GCC. There are opportunities for CNA training in Ironwood but there is more demand in the Houghton County area, he said. In Gogebic County the CNA training is offered at GCC, through the G...
MERCER, Wis. - Luis Segura-Martel was named the winner of the annual Mercer School Spelling Bee on Tuesday, according to an announcement. Segura-Martel and fellow seventh-graders, Laken Walker, second alternate, and Adrienne Konneker, third alternate, will travel to Ashland on Feb. 5 to participate in the CESA No. 12 Regional Spelling Bee, according to Sheri Kopka, interim school district administrator....
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER - The trial of an Ironwood man facing several counts of criminal sexual conduct continued in Gogebic County Circuit Court Wednesday. Jeremy James Richards, 42, is charged with four counts of first degree criminal sexual conduct-personal injury and one count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm-strangulation. Each of the criminal sexual conduct charges carries a potential life sentence as the maximum punishment. The charges stem fr...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - At a special meeting on Tuesday evening, the Wakefield Planning Commission voted to recommend that a three-year lease for the Split Rock Trail Association be submitted to the City Council for review. The council is expected to consider the lease at its next meeting on Feb. 10, after which the lease will be returned to SRTA members for final review. Termed as a "surface use lease," the agreement refers to about 10 acres of land in the Section...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] EWEN — Work on a fabrication laboratory at the Ewen-Trout Creek School District is moving fast as the ETC board heard at their regular January meeting. Superintendent Dave Radovich reported thatDon Sidlowski of the Northwoods Economic Development Coalition will present to the staff and board on Friday to talk philosophies and procedures for having a Fab Lab and MakerSpace as part of the ETC curriculum. Radovich noted that instructor Nina Fiorucci will be attending training this summer for the FabLab and D...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - A redesign of the Lindquist Student Conference Center will not include the existing swimming pool, following a decision of the Gogebic Community College Board of Trustees on Tuesday. The Trustees 5-2 approved the administration's recommendation to close the pool permanently and to authorize the college to research options to develop the space for future use. "If we were to repurpose the space, a number of academic programs could...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — The members of the Ironwood Township Board of Trustees want to run their road work plan by the Gogebic County Road Commission before formally adopting it, but the consensus Monday was they should seek to maximize the available funding. The board discussed four general options the township received from the road commission — completing milling work on roughly 0.35 miles of Sunset Road east of Section 12 at a cost of roughly $75,000, repaving 0.25 miles of Mountain View Road fro...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield City Council received good news on Monday evening in the way of a “clean audit” from CPA Karl “Gus” Ahonen of Ironwood. According to City Manager Rob Brown on Tuesday, the city has no deficits to file with the state, and Ahonen reported no other problems either. The CPA’s report shows that the general fund balance at the end of the previous fiscal year on June 30, 2019 was $535,464 and that the city paid $156,000 in “extra” pension contributions to the state’s Municipal Employe...
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...
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...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] IRONWOOD - A smokin' good time was had by all at Saturday's "Light Up The Night" party next to Jake Randa Memorial Field in Ironwood. Winter weather both helped and hurt the event by offering mild temperatures, on one hand, while also leaving a fresh layer of dense snow on the pile of about 250 Christmas trees that gradually went up in flames with the help of an attentive fire-keeping team. Members of Ironwood's Norrie Amateur Sports Club, Inc. offered the...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] SAXON, Wis. - The turnout was very good for the Saxon-Gurney Fire Department's largest fundraiser event on Sunday, according to Fire Chief Stacy Ofstad. The annual roast beef dinner at the Saxon Community Center had a steady stream of guests coming from surrounding communities for the painstakingly prepared dinner and a bar, but also for a gun auction, raffle and door prizes. "We usually do about 260 (people) but I think we're going to be over that...
IRONWOOD — The Historic Ironwood Theatre will be the place to be at the end of the month for fans of the Swedish group ABBA, as the iconic downtown Ironwood location hosts “ABBA Mania.” “‘ABBA Mania’ has been selling out theaters and concert halls internationally for the past decade. The show has toured the world in its quest to bring the music of the Swedish ‘supergroup’ to their millions of fans, old and new,” a theater spokesperson said. “If you’re looking for an excuse to celebrate, reminisce or simply be entertained by the music that con...
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...
