Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] MERCER, Wis. — The Mercer Town Board of Supervisors on Thursday addressed the issue of the growing number of vacation rental units without permits. There are at least three residential homes in the community are being used as tourist rooming houses, said John Sendra, town board chair during his report to the supervisors. The owners are advertising as vacation rentals through online rental agencies such as AirBnB and VRBO but as far as the city is aware, no one is paying lodging or other taxes a...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY, MERCER, Wis. — If an Iron County grant application is approved the town of Mercer and city of Hurley may receive subsidized public transportation services sometime in 2020, according to officials. Bay Area Rural Transit (BART), based in Ashland, is a subsidized public transit system that operates at minimal cost to passengers. BART also provides accommodations for physical accessibility to the disabled. Cally Bucknell, director of the Iron County Department of Human Services, and Trista O...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Downtown Ironwood Development Authority on Thursday started the discussion of developing a downtown comprehensive plan. The First Impressions program of Michigan State University Extension, where visitors reported on observations and experiences after visiting the city, is an opportunity to list ideas to prioritize in a comprehensive blueprint plan, said Tom Bergman, director of the Ironwood Community Development office. The downtown plan would be consistent with the city c...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] WASHINGTON D.C. — Gogebic County is one of four Upper Peninsula counties sharing close to $100,000 in funding for expanded telemedicine services, Sen. Debbie Stabenow announced Thursday. Ortele Health received a $99,978 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide telehealth treatment for opioid misuse and general medical care in Gogebic, Mackinac, Luce and Marquette counties in the U.P., and two counties downstate. “Michigan families in rural communities often lack access to hea...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY, Wis. — Staff of the Aging and Disability Resource Center of the North (ADRC) looks to move into the former Veterans of Foreign Wars building in Hurley by the end of the month, according to a report at the Hurley Senior Center, Inc. Board of Directors meeting Thursday. The Hurley Senior Center staff has functioned as the county aging unit but is now a separate entity, said Trista Olson, director of the Senior Center. Senior Center staff are now contracted with the Iron County ADRC office in...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] IRONWOOD - To meet state requirements and keep up with the technical age, the Gogebic-Iron Wastewater Treatment Facility will soon be upgrading their SQL data logging system. SQL stands for structural query language. According to plant manager Jeff Wasley, the upgrade has been paid for, but the facility is waiting on the integrator to finish his part in order to proceed. "We have to change the way we do our data logging. The old software, called General...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY, Wis. - What started as a pre-Thanksgiving meal fun run among friends has grown into an annual community charitable event. The fifth Trot-4-Food is set for Thanksgiving, with same-day registration starting a half-hour before the 8 a.m. start on Thursday, Nov. 28, at the Iron County Health Department, 502 Copper Street, Hurley. Participants can choose between the 1.5-mile or 4-mile walk, run, trot and have the health department to warm up befo...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture for designating 43 counties — including seven Upper Peninsula counties — as primary natural disaster areas Tuesday. Along with these primary areas, Gogebic and Ontonagon counties were included as contiguous counties as they border primary counties. The designation makes assistance available to agriculture producers in those counties impacted by adverse weather conditions, a governor’s spokesperson said in a news release...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The Board of Education for the Wakefield-Marenisco K-12 School had a busy Monday meeting agenda that included three presentations in the school's life skills room. Don Sidlowski promoted a school-based fab lab, Russ Maki recalled the school's 1960 football state championship, and student Alex Sheehan offered his senior project. Based on a slide show pitch from Sidlowski, of Three Lakes, Wis., the board later voted to approve a contract for him...
KIM E. STROM [email protected] IRONWOOD - One of the key things to remember when considering the difference between the warning signs of Alzheimer's and normal, age-related memory problems, is what is normal for the person. "Cognitive problems can vary from person to person," said Sundi Tayor with the Greater Michigan Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. The third in a series of four main programs, Taylor gave a presentation on the 10 warning signs of Alzheimer's at the Ironwood...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] BESSEMER — Three youths face charges after stealing a pickup truck in Ashland and leading law enforcement on a high speed chase that ended in Marenisco on Saturday morning. A 14-year-old girl, a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy, allegedly stole a 2017 Chevrolet Silverado from a private owner in the city of Ashland Wisconsin at about 7:40 a.m., according to a news release from Ashland Police Department on Tuesday. The vehicle was reportedly unlocked with the keys left inside at the time of t...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - Ironwood Township resident Todd Maki hasn't found a lot of opportunities to use his background working with giraffe since moving to the Northwoods. So he went to Africa. Maki plans to offer a presentation about his trip and the conservation efforts he volunteered with at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Cold Iron brewery. In late October, Maki traveled to Uganda for roughly two weeks to help the Giraffe Conservation Foundation relocate a group o...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - Hurley School District is getting good marks from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction but it's just a snapshot report and the work is to constantly improve, according to reports at the Hurley Public School Board meeting on Monday. "The results are overall and the scores don't fluctuate much, but the report card helps us with the goal of constantly looking for ways to improve," said Kevin Genisot, school district administrator....
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] MARENISCO — Despite one opposing vote, the Marenisco Township Board of Trustees voted Monday evening to rescind an ordinance that would have allowed recreational marijuana enterprise within the township. The action followed the Nov. 5 election, in which Marenisco citizens voted 146-64 against the ordinance after having petitioned to get the matter on the ballot. The board had passed the ordinance on June 17 after a related public hearing in the spring. Trustee Dave Hagen voted against rescinding the o...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Organizers said a beginner skijoring class was to introduce more people to a winter silent sport that is gaining popularity as a way for people of various fitness levels to exercise and enjoy the outdoors with their dogs. Skijoring is a sport involving being towed by a dog or a horse via harness while on skis. Sandra Tocko offered the free dry-land clinic to around 15 people, most of them with dogs, at Wolverine Nordic Ski...
Monday, Nov. 18 Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution for seniors, GOCAA, 100 S. Mill St., Bessemer, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.; Wakefield VFW, 9-9:30 a.m.; Sunset Manor Apartments community room, 9:45-10 a.m.; Riverview Apartments parking lot, 10:15-10:30 a.m.; Hillcrest Apartments community room, noon-12:15 p.m.; Fairview Apartments community room, 12:30-12:45 p.m. Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, Wis. 715-561-4450. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood.... Full story
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - Many of the Historic Ironwood Theatre's volunteers gathered at the theater Sunday night for a volunteer appreciation party to recognize their efforts in helping the downtown Ironwood institution continue to operate. "The theater wouldn't exist without the volunteers. Financially, the theater isn't able to pay a full-time operations manager, an office manager - we really could use four or five full-time people here," said theater board...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — A winter season of events is set to highlight the Upper Peninsula winters that make this region special. “We’re hoping for Mr. Jack Frost to come and keep us cold so that the snow stays,” said Michael Meyer, director of the Ironwood Area Chamber of Commerce. “This is probably one of few places that just can’t wait until it gets cold.” The holiday tree lighting Friday at the Historic Ironwood Depot and Museum Thursday was an early kick off to a winter season of activities running throu...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors approved an option agreement Tuesday that gives Enbridge Inc. the ability to purchase an easement on Iron County land if the company moves forward with a plan to reroute its Line 5 pipeline. “It’s an agreement we would make with the county, where, if the day comes where we actually do build the pipeline, we would exercise that option and then we would negotiate an easement — a perpetual easement — with the county for that pipeline to exist on the Iron C...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] IRONWOOD - On Thursday evening, Bill Erickson took part in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writers Month) at the Ironwood Carnegie Library by giving a presentation on the basics of writing. There are several elements that make a story, said Erickson. If the story is missing any of them, then it's called an experiment, not a story. First it must have a setting, then a time frame, a narrative form of which there are 11 to choose from, he said. Than it has to...
WAKEFIELD - Veterans were honored guests and participants in a Veterans Day program last Monday at the Wakefield-Marenisco K-12 School in Wakefield. The program, for which Richard Bolen was master of ceremonies, began with a karate tribute by Ruk Betlewski of Ironwood. It was called "A Salute to Soldiers." Second- and third-grade students sang the national anthem, as well as "This Flag We Fly." Commander Eddo Maki of the Wakefield American Legion was the guest speaker. The Wakefield-Marenisco...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] BESSEMER - During the regular meeting of the city of Bessemer's Downtown Development Authority, expanding the pop-up shop program was a main focus of interest. The pop-up shop program offers many benefits to new and expanding shop owners. It provides up to six months of free rent at a downtown district location of choice and 1:1 matching funds for improvements to the building, according to the city's website. "It would be nice to offer some sort of...
