Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY — After 20 years of teaching an Iron County hunter safety course for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, instructor David Vuorenmaa said the lack of hunting accidents in the area shows that the mandated class has helped hunters with prevention. “We’ve had a very successful rate, and have never had any serious injuries,” Vuorenmaa said of the spring and fall classes. “We’ve taught hundreds of kids so far.” The DNR requires all individuals born after Jan. 1, 1988 to successfully...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - The future of the Lindquist Student Conference Center was the topic of a workshop for Gogebic Community College Board of Trustees on Tuesday. The Lindquist Center is one component, but a priority component of the plan that GCC is trying to come up with that will support the college, students and the community for the next 25 years, said GCC President George McNulty. This is a major facility development project that is in exploration mode...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Awkward Stage Drama Club is not just practicing to put on a play or two. The club is working toward a much bigger goal - an anti-bullying campaign. The club is comprised of sixth through 12th graders who are learning that there are two sides to every story. Through alternative fairy tales, the kids learn to consider the point of view of the often infamous bullies. Currently the group is working to put on "Beanstalk," another version of an...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — When the village of Ontonagon was named by former Gov. Rick Synder a Rising Tide Community, a key to development was revitalization of the village’s Downtown Development Authority. The original Ontonagon DDA plan was approved in the 1980s and expires in 2020. The DDA worked with a Rising Tide Fellow in Ontonagon to amend the plan for another 30 years. John Iacoangeli of Beckett and Raeder answered questions about the new plan at a public meeting of the village council Monday. He said the plan ident...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Michigan State Police Post and Super One Foods joined efforts Monday to help stock local food pantries for those in need. The Stuff a Goose food drive began Monday and ends Oct. 24. From now until then, donations can be made either by purchasing a $5 dollar bag filled with $10 worth of groceries at Super One, or by donating non-perishable food items to the Michigan State Police Post in Wakefield Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m....
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The Wakefield City Council voted Monday evening to approve Resolution No. 266, in relation to granting tax-exempt status to the Forward Wakefield Development Corporation for a three-year period. According to city manager Rob Brown, the resolution now will be sent to the State Tax Commission for final determination. The council's unanimous vote occurred after three members of Forward Wakefield presented a slide show regarding their goals during...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — A trio of judges with the Michigan State Court of Appeals recently overturned the conviction of local girl for messages she sent on social media. The girl was one of four girls in a Snapchat group that included fantasies about killing a 13-year-old boy they didn’t like, as well as his gold fish and his dog — if he had one. The boy had picked on some members of the Snapchat group, according to the opinion. One of the girls — identified in the opinion as JP - due to being a minor — was cha...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] BESSEMER - A 50th anniversary celebration of Ironwood's Copper Peak ski-flying hill was well-received on Saturday evening, with about 125 people enjoying the event at Powderhorn Mountain Resort's Caribou Lodge in Bessemer. Dubbed as "Copper Peak Goes Gold," the semiformal event began with a social, a pop-up shop and a silent auction, for which items were artfully displayed in the lobby and illuminated by glittering gold snowflake lights. Afterward,...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY, Wis. - "Work Bee" volunteers said a little snow and drizzle wasn't going to keep them from spending a Sunday afternoon improving the Hurley Non-motorized Trailhead. Members of the Iron County Outdoor Recreation Enthusiasts and its sister organization, Friends of the Iron-Bell Trail in Michigan, met along the paved path where the two trails meet going over the Montreal River. The work was to pick up litter, put benches, bike racks and picnic...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] MERCER, Wis. — The annual “Soup N Samich Ride with Vets for Vets” was held at Schomberg Park on Saturday, for maybe the last time as the event will move to Hurley September next year. For over 15 years a camping and trail ride for recreational sport-utility and all-terrain vehicles among a small group of veterans, families and friends was more or less invitation only, said organizer Curt Myers of Hurley. The event usually raised a few hundred dollars for a veterans-related charity along with some f...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] BESSEMER - Just outside the old tennis court at Bluff Valley Park in Bessemer where now lays a full skatepark, is what's called a pump track. A pump track is a series of hills and banked turns designed for bikers. "It's called a pump track because essentially you enter it with the speed you're comfortable with and its features are made so you can carry that speed through the whole thing without peddling. Riders 'pump' down on the hills to gain speed and...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] MERCER, Wis. - The Hurley School's field biology class was in Mercer Thursday for a day of land and water conservation at Little Turtle Flowage and MECCA Trailhead. Diane O'Krongly, who teaches field biology at Hurley High School, said this class spends three hours a week helping clear the school property of buckthorn. It's an active class and that is why she requested the field trip to learn more about the importance of a diverse woodlands. "This...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The western Upper Peninsula will experience a large low pressure front this weekend but not with the same severity as in Minnesota and North Dakota. The center of the system brought the worst weather on Thursday and Friday to western Minnesota, the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Southern Manitoba, said Steve Gohde, the observing program leader and hydrologist at the National Weather Service office in Duluth. Some of the cold air from that system is moving north east and the G...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - A group of Little Girl's Point residents and others who use the Oman's Creek boat launch gathered at Gogebic Community College Thursday to talk with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources about plans to provide a more long-term fix to the issue of sediment build up at the creek's mouth. "We recognize this site as one of the most important Lake Superior boat access sites in the Western U.P. - if not the entire U.P.," said Eric Cadeau...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] RAMSAY — The Gogebic Range Water Authority Board on Thursday discussed the challenges of possibly absorbing replacement costs for residential lines if they are contaminated with lead from the municipal water system. In his report, Chuck Lawson of C2AE — the water authority’s engineering firm — said the Michigan Court of Claims on Thursday rejected a legal challenge to Michigan’s Lead and Copper Rule that requires cities and municipal water systems to remove lead or galvanized water lines, including...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] BESSEMER - To be given a Quilt of Valor is an honor because it is not a gift, said Pauline Borgmen of the organization Quilts of Valor Foundation, it is an award that is earned, she said. Two veterans were awarded the quilts on Thursday as part of a celebration of 100 years of service of three different local entities: The Washington Elementary School in Bessemer, the Bessemer American Legion Post 27/American Legion Auxiliary Unit 27, and the Bessemer...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners 4-0 approved a resolution in support of reinstating a vetoed item from the Michigan annual budget that would have reimbursed the county for pension fund dollars. Commissioners Joe Bonovetz, James Lorenson and George Peterson III were not present. Rich Rossway, director of constituent services for State Rep. Greg Markkanen, R-Hancock, was present to update the commission on the progress of reintroducing the bill that Markkanen introduced in the ho...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Department of Human Services is now taking application for the 2019-20 Wisconsin Home Energy Assistance Program by appointment only. New applicants must apply in person and must set up an appointment to do so. Otherwise applicants may apply in person, over the phone or have an application mailed to them, according to program manager Diane Schmidtke. Applications will be accepted now through May 15. Not all households will be eligible. There is a formula that takes into account i...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — “Share the Joy” is the theme of this year’s St. Nicholas Project in Ontonagon County. The project is a coalition of organizations, formed in 1987, to make sure that every family in Ontonagon County has food and every child has a gift for Christmas. Although it seems Christmas is far off, the deadline for signing up to be helped by the project is near. Those who want help from the project for the holidays must complete an application by Oct. 18. Application forms are in nearly every busines...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - Johnny Appleseed made a stop at Gogebic Community College on Tuesday. The Gogebic Community College Board of Trustees were on campus bright and early to plant seven apple trees inside the circular walkway just east of the Rutger Erickson Academic building and north of the parking lot near the Jacob Solin Center for business education. Each of the seven trustees - chair, John Lupino, chair, Eric Fitting, Thomas Brown, Robert Burchell, Tim...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] MONTREAL - The city of Montreal adopted a resolution to borrow $130,000 from the state of Wisconsin's trust fund to finance a water infrastructure project at Tuesday's regular meeting of the common council. The loan would be payable in 10 years from March 2020 at a rate of 3.2% annual interest. The funds will be used to repair Well No. 5 and Well No. 3, and for injection port and tower mixer repair and engineering costs. If there are remaining funds,...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The next time Curtis A. Wolfe appears in Iron County court, it is expected to be the beginning of his trial on charges related to the murder of a Lac du Flambeau man north of Mercer in December 2017, after a judge ruled on a variety of procedural issues Tuesday. Wolfe, 28, is charged with being a party to the crime of first degree intentional homicide and being a party to the crime of hiding a corpse for his alleged role in the death of Wayne M. Valliere Jr., whose body was found Jan. 1...
