Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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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....
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...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - The annual tree lighting was a memorable start to the holiday season on Thursday at Depot Park. Guests said the tree lighting capped an enjoyable evening of socializing, refreshments, choral music and thoughtful remarks. "It's a good way to start our Christmas season and to take in a little bit of Ironwood in the eventing," said Tom Schoeller of Wakefield. Schoeller was present with his wife, Mary Davern, and said the two have always want...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — The state of Michigan won’t be designating the Ontonagon Area Schools as a “financially distressed” district, a designation the state puts on districts that have fund balances less than 5% of their budgets. The district’s business manager, Linda Karttunen, Monday presented the results of the 2018-19 audit to the district’s board of education. The audit showed a general fund balance of $163,605 as of June 30, 2019. That puts the fund balance at 5.21 % — above the 5% threshold and enough for th...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] ERWIN TOWNSHIP - This week's storms brought enough snow to the Gogebic Range that local winter sport enthusiasts were able to get out and enjoy some of the area's trails with two weeks of November still on the calendar. Roughly 18 inches of snow fell at ABR Trails in Erwin Township, according to co-owner Angela Santini, which was enough to open 43 kilometers of cross country ski trails on the property Wednesday. The open trails featured a mix of...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD- Members of the Wakefield Planning Commission contemplated a potential skateboard area near Eddy Park at their Tuesday evening meeting. The discussion followed a presentation by Christopher Tweiten, a social studies teacher at the Wakefield-Marenisco K-12 School. "Not all kids participate in team sports," said Tweiten, who said he believes that, just as organized sports are a "positive" element of any community, so too can activities such as skat...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY, Wis. — The Hurley School District hired staff and faculty following a special School Board meeting on Monday. Following an executive session to discuss personnel information the school board accepted the resignation of part time school office secretary Holly Swartz, and hired Stephanie Gwyn for the position. The board then hired Cole Kivisto as a substitute teacher; Louis Laguna as a substitute custodian, and Randy King as a volunteer coach. The special meeting was required to fill the s...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — After months of work the Pat O’Donnell Civic Center could be ready for skaters on Thursday evening, according to city officials. Bill Nyman, maintenance manager for the Civic Center, and Ethan Roehm, maintenance worker, started making ice on Monday and expect to have a skate-able sheet of ice by Thursday. “When we get done with the ice I believe we have the Ice Crystals (Figure Skating Club) scheduled that night,” Nyman said. The ice wil...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MERCER, Wis. — Work is expected to resume at Action Floor Systems today after the company halted production for a day following a fire Monday at its Mercer facility. Company president Tom Abendroth said the company made the decision as a precaution and much of the work should be able to proceed as normal. “We made choice not to run production today and just made sure we went through everything and everything was in good, working order,” Abendroth told the Daily Globe Tuesday. Iron County Dispa...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield City Council voted Monday evening to authorize not more than $31,200 to purchase geographic information systems software from mPower Innovations in Iron Mountain. The vote followed a slideshow presentation by Jason Brown, the company CEO. Brown, whose company has been in business for 25 years and has customers in 34 states, said his company mission is to lower cost and complexity in relation to mapping utilities. Among his clients are about 20 towns, townships or counties in t...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The 100th anniversary Veterans Day program at Luther L. Wright High School on Monday was highlighted by cadets of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Program performing several flag exercises from presenting colors, to marching exercises and a folding ceremony. Col. Sandra Keefer (U.S. Army retired), the senior Army instructor for the JROTC program, said the new assistant instructor Sgt. 1st Class Sean Hall started on Monday. The two a...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MERCER, Wis. - Firefighters from several area departments responded to reports of a fire at Action Floors in Mercer Monday afternoon. Iron County Dispatch received the initial reports of the fire at approximately 2:36 p.m. at the facility just south of Mercer on U.S. 51. Among those responding to the scene were the Mercer, Sherman-Springstead and Oma volunteer fire departments, as well as the Mercer Area Ambulance. Reports on the scene indicate...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission held its first meeting since the Nov. 5 election, where all five members were re-elected. The meeting started with the commission accepting the city clerk’s report of the Gogebic County Board of Canvassers that certified the election results on Nov. 6. The candidates took the oath of office. Annette Burchell remains mayor as the candidate who received the most votes, with Kim Corcoran named mayor pro tem with the second high vote total. Joseph Cayer, Jim Mil...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] IRONWOOD - The burial of World War II prisoner of war Walter J. Kellett's in an Ironwood cemetery Oct. 5 caught Steve Kwiecinski's eye. An historian living in Virginia, Minn., Kwiecinski didn't know Kellett, but he knew his story well. Kellett was forced to walk what's known as the Bataan Death March which was "65 miles of hell on Earth," Kwiecinski told the Daily Globe. Kwiecinski has been leading a tour of the march every year since 2007. After...
