Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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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...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] BESSEMER — Three organization are combining patriotic events Wednesday to celebrate 100 years of serving the Bessemer community. Washington Elementary School, American Legion Post 27/American Legion Auxiliary Unit 27, and Bessemer Womens Club are each 100-years-old in 2019 and each will hold an event on Wednesday, Oct. 10 to celebrate a patriotic theme together at the Bessemer City Hall auditorium. The all-ages open house event is free and open to the public. “Activists through the decades, the...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] BESSEMER - Discussion at Monday's Bessemer city council meeting centered on the issue of whether the city is in compliance with the American with Disabilities Act with regard to the city hall. Councilman Louis Miskovich provided several letters from residents who are disabled and cannot use most of the facilities at the building - including paying utility bills, voting and attending city meetings. According to Miskovich, the city may be in compliance...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area Historical Society is having its annual banquet Thursday at the Olde Suffolk Ale House at 125 South Suffolk Street. This year's speaker will be Percy Smith. Smith retired 16 years ago as the superintendent of the Ironwood Area Schools. He will be giving a presentation on the history of the districtthroughout the years, said historical society board member Sandy Sharp. Smith said he will also be speaking about how state and local politics have affected the schools. He s...
IRONWOOD - Walter Kellett is now at eternal rest in the family plot at Riverside Cemetery in Ironwood. The 12,500-mile journey came 77 years after military historians say Kellett died at the Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp in the Philippines on July 19, 1942. The last mile of his journey was a drizzly cool morning drive in a funeral coach from the McKevitt-Patrick Funeral Home to the cemetery, where people gathered along the route to pay respects. The hearse entered the cemetery gate underneath...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — The hardy few who braved the cold, wet, windy weather Saturday morning got the chance to preview the future path of the North Country Trail on Little Girl’s Points and enjoy one of the best views of fall leaves in the county as the Ni-Miikanaake chapter hosted a hike to the Montreal Gorge. The small group hiked along Lake Road from the Superior Falls parking lot for a short distance before heading off road and along a muddy all-terrain vehicle trail to the cliffs above the Montreal River. Saturday’s hike was the final group...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Hiawatha renovation was officially concluded Friday with a rededication ceremony and ribbon-cutting by the Ironwood Area Chamber of Commerce, which owns the 50-foot statue on Burma Road. "About 50 years ago I stood and watched the statue being put in place," said Ironwood City Commission member Rick Semo. "It was an amazing sight. For years Hiawatha has overlooked the town and has been a symbol of this area." Semo said the...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - First Friday October could have doubled as the feast of flannel as people filled Aurora Street to take part in "Plaidurday". Hundreds of people in all colors and combinations of plaid shirts, coats, hats and other apparel filled Aurora between Lowell and Suffolk streets as photographers and videographers clicked away from rooftops and camera drones zoomed above. It was part of an effort to get all of the Upper Peninsula communities to...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MERCER, Wis. — The town of Mercer has a new postmaster after Niki Bock was sworn in Friday afternoon in front of the town’s post office. As postmaster, Bock will oversee the general operations of the post office. “I do everything from throw mail to take customer complaints,” she said after the brief ceremony. Anything (the customers) need … help with. I pretty much oversee everything.” Bock, who is from Hurley, said she started her seven-year career with the U.S. Postal Service as a mail carrie...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The surviving sister and nephew of Walter Kellett, a soldier who died in the Philippines during World War II, were present Thursday to see his recently identified remains arrive at Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee, and sent on to Ironwood where he will be buried Saturday. “It means a lot being here,” said Staff Sgt. T.J. Maleport, the U.P. team leader for Army funeral honors. “Lately, we’ve had a number of transfers for repatriat...
