Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The work to open the Pat O’Donnell Civic Center for the winter season is nearly complete and the temporarily domed facility could be open to skaters within two weeks, according to reports at the board meeting Monday. “It’s up,” said board chair Jim Collins in his report. “The glass is up, the netting is up, the bleachers are up and the changing rooms are done.” The floor is re-installed and cleaned, the main hallway has lighting and ceiling tiles and the concession stands are ready, he...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] IRONWOOD - The year 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the Ironwood Area Historical Society. To celebrate, and as a dual purpose to also raise funds for the depot building's roof repair, the society has rolled out brand new calendars featuring historic photographs and dates of interest. The Historical Society has been raising funds for a new roof for about two years. The estimated cost is between $50,000 and $60,000, according to Gary Harrington, the Soc...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] LANSING — Among the nearly $1 million in wildlife habitat grants the Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced last week is funding for deer habitat work in the Upper Peninsula. A portion of those funds will go towards ongoing efforts to improve deer habitat in the western and central U.P. A total of $996,900 in funding will be split between 11 conservation organizations, governmental units, landowners and non-profits around the state, according to the DNR's announcement. The money will b...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] WATERSMEET - Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong made history as the first man to step foot onto the moon. Frank Kuchevar of Watersmeet remembers it well. He was laying on the floor at home with his young son at the time watching it on television. "It was very satisfying and emotional," he said in an interview with the Daily Globe on Saturday. "I actually teared up. It was a tremendous feat. All the people that worked on it and put it...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] HURLEY - More than 100 people took part in Little Finland's community stew dinner on Sunday in Hurley. Kala Mojakka and beef stew with Finn pie (bread) was on the menu along with an assortment of desserts. Kala Mojakka is not Finnish for fish stew. It actually translates to "fish, more Jacob." According to Finnish teacher, Seija Jarvenpaa, kala means fish. As for the the rest of the name, the story has it that in the lumber camps in the area there was a...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — As city committees and staff continue to review information from a recent “First Impressions” report, officials said it’s possible that Ironwood may be part of a first-ever winter visitor study. The First Impressions study is conducted by Michigan State University’s Extension Community, Food and Environment Institute, and looks at community food systems, entrepreneurship, finance and homeownership, government and public policy, land use, leadership, natural resource management and touri...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] MERCER, Wis. — A groundwater study of 11 Northwest Wisconsin counties looked at naturally-occurring minerals and raises awareness on the importance of testing unregulated wells. “It’s important to focus on northwest Wisconsin because there has not been a lot of focus here,” said Kelsey Prihoda, researcher and Great Waters Research Collaborative program manager for the Lake Superior Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulat...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] IRONWOOD - Thanks to the hard work of Sharlene Shaffer, president of the Northern Lights Quilting Guild, and organizers from the Ironwood Wesley United Church and the UMW (United Methodist Women), Willa Lavamaki of Superior, Wis. will go home Friday in pansy paradise and the church will have funds to help repay its roof renovation loan. Pansy paradise is the name of the queen-sized quilt that was crafted by Shaffer and donated to the church to put in a...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] IRONWOOD— At their regular meeting on Tuesday evening, members of the Gogebic County chapter of the Michigan Townships Association received two sides of the story in relation to state Senate Bill 431, which, if passed, would favor state power in relation to where gravel pits may open. “MTA is completely opposed to it,” said District 1 Rep. Mary Segalin, who relayed that the association is urging citizens to write letters supporting that viewpoint to state senators and representatives. Segalin was speak...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] Halloween may be the spookiest night of the year, but it didn't scare kids of all ages from coming out to enjoy the fun, and neither did the chilly weather. Hundreds of children were treated to a sweet Halloween by local folks willing to brave the cold to make sure they had a fun and safe holiday. The fun started early at the Gogebic Medical Care Facility in Wakefield where residents and staff dressed up to hand out candy. "It's been a long-standing...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - Curtis A. Wolfe, 28, of Lac du Flambeau, appeared in Iron County Court Thursday and pleaded to his role in the 2017 murder of a Lac du Flambeau man. Wolfe entered no-contest pleas to being a party to the crime of second degree reckless homicide by omission, being a party to the crime of hiding a corpse, being a felon in possession of a weapon, and being the party to a crime of harboring or aiding a felon. "I have reviewed the criminal...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — Kick off November by attending First Friday events tonight from 5 to 7:30 p.m. in downtown Ironwood. The Nov. 1 event is to be known as “Furry Friday” as H.O.P.E. Animal Shelter will bring shelter animals to promote awareness of the need for forever homes from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. The animals will be on Aurora Street, including dogs on the lot next to Mattson’s TV and Appliance, and cats at the entrance to the Historic Ironwood Theatre. The Historic Ironwood Theater is screening “Young...
By KIM E. STROM [email protected] IRONWOOD - All mammographies help detect breast cancer before it is big enough to feel and before symptoms are obvious, but the benefits of having a 3-dimensional mammography as opposed to having a 2-D image taken of the breast is a lot like having a CAT scan as opposed to an X-ray, said Aspirus Ironwood staff radiologist Dr. John Pietila, Wednesday in an interview with the Daily Globe. The technology is fairly new to Aspirus Ironwood with the hospital h...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] MARENISCO— Another blow occurred to Marenisco Township this week when it was refused an injunction from a state court to prevent the current process of filling in sewer lagoons at the former Ojibway Correctional Facility off of M-64. Township Supervisor Richard Bouvette reported the news late Tuesday evening, adding that he was not surprised by the action. “They’re almost done out there, so I guess it doesn’t really matter whether we get the injunction or not,” he said. Bouvette had said in prior con...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — A Hurley man was sentenced to more than three years in prison in Iron County Court Tuesday. Andrew R. Zaleski, 39, was sentenced to a total of 3.5 years in prison for three felonies he pleaded no contest to in August. He was sentenced to two years in prison and two years of extended supervision for felony bail jumping, two years in prison and two years of extended supervision for false imprisonment and 18 months in prison and two years of extended supervision for stalking. Judge Gary Carls...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] MARENISCO - Members of the Wakefield-Marenisco Board of Education learned Monday night that the good news outweighs the bad in relation to an audit of the fiscal year ending on June 30. According to Gus Ahonen, CPA, of Makela, Pollack, and Ahonen, PLLC, of Ironwood, the district had a pension liability of $5,659,153 net, as well as $1,492,314 net in other retiree liabilities at the end of the fiscal year. He added, however, that these figures actually...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — The woman who started the fire above the Pines Cafe in August pleaded guilty to committing arson in Gogebic County Circuit Court Tuesday. Hykesha Deshay Martin, 24, pleaded guilty to first degree arson, a felony which carries a potential life sentence. During the hearing, she testified she didn’t remember exactly how the fire started but that it began after she poured lighter fluid on the bed in her husband’s apartment above the restaurant. “I don’t really recall exactly what happened,...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Gogebic Community College Board of Trustees has begun to consider full-time coaches as a way to build sustainable sports programs with strong recruiting and more support for students. The trustees on Tuesday approved 6-0 to change the volleyball coach job description to full time to help fill a vacant position that has cancelled the 2019-20 season. Board Vice-chair William Malloy was not present. “This is the most functional way to ensure our volleyball team is moving forward and...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Ironwood City Commission on Monday 4-0 approved items related to city welcome signage along the U.S. 2 corridor, and for the proposed Ironwood City Square Project. Commissioner Joseph Cayer was not present at the meeting with an excused absence. Tom Bergman, city community development director, said the Michigan Economic Development Corporation requires that qualifications for engineering and design services, along with a budget, be p...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Members of the Wakefield City Council learned Monday night that the Michigan Department of Transportation is considering converting U.S. 2 to a three-lane design for several blocks east of Sunday Lake Street. There are currently two lanes in this part of U.S. 2. City Manager Robert Brown said that the section under consideration would stretch just over a mile from the main street to E. Pierce Street, which is next to the Regal Country Inn. He...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — The Ironwood Township Board of Trustees approved additional work on the township gym Monday. The board approved spending $11,493 on a pair of projects in the township hall’s gym that will piggy-back on the ongoing repairs to the building. “I don’t think we’re going to have more of a golden opportunity than this, to do some renovations to the gym,” Supervisor Jim Simmons said, referring to the work still being done to repair the gym roof after it was damaged due to last winter...
