Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Editor’s note: This is the first story in a three-part series explaining the ambulance millage request that will be on the Gogebic County ballot in the Nov. 6 election. By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — While Michigan’s November mid-term elections feature many races on the state and national level, a millage question is crucial to Gogebic County voters. Voters are being asked to approve one mill over the next three years for ambulance services. For the first year, the mill would raise $523,548 countywide. Without the millage...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - Record rainfall for the 24-hour period to 7 a.m. Wednesday has sent Ironwood's 2018 precipitation total to nearly 11 inches above average. A total of 2.33 inches fell at the Gogebic-Iron Wastewater Treatment Plant off Cloverland Drive, setting an Oct. 10 record covering the past 117 years. At 2:20 a.m. Wednesday, wastewater that had not received full treatment was being released into the Montreal River to prevent sewage backups into homes. A...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — It appears Gogebic County will receive a $650,000 fire and rescue vehicle for the Gogebic-Iron Airport at a cost of $8,125. The county board of supervisors on Wednesday approved a resolution authorizing a funding application for the vehicle. Airport manager Mike Harma noted a federal grant will cover most of the costs of the 1,500-gallon fire truck. Iron and Gogebic counties will split the local $16,250 match. County board member Joe Bonovetz, of Bessemer, said an emergency exercise in t...
BESSEMER — Gogebic County Emergency Government Coordinator Jim Loeper told the county board of supervisors Wednesday there were high water issues throughout the county, including possible flooding of the Presque Isle River in the Marenisco area. While Loeper said the greatest threat of flooding may have passed, as people left the 5 p.m. county board meeting it was pouring heavily outside the courthouse in Bessemer, where side streets that are under construction had flooded. Loeper said countywide rainfall from the past few days totaled 4 i...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — Additional charges have been filed against one of the men accused of participating in the murder a Lac du Flambeau man in Mercer on Dec. 22. Assistant Attorney General Richard Dufour, lead special prosecutor, filed an additional 14 counts against Evan T. Oungst, 28, in Iron County Circuit Court Friday. Oungst is already charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse in connection to the shooting death of Wayne M. Valliere Jr. On Friday, Oungst w...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — Additional threat counts have been filed against an 81-year-old Kimball, Wis., man who has been bound over for trial on a charge of making a terroristic threat at the Marshfield Clinic in Mercer on Aug. 2. On Tuesday, Robert “Barrel Bob” Gollubske was also charged with threatening to blow up both the Iron County Courthouse in Hurley in 2013 and the Northwoods Paving (Mathy Construction) asphalt plant in Kimball in 2016. The courthouse threat count was refiled after having been previ...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — The secretary of the Ontonagon Housing Commission filed suit in Ontonagon County Circuit Court Monday, against one village councilman, one member of the Village Housing Commission, one resident of the village housing and the Housing Commission itself. Sue Lockhart, a 23-year employee and secretary of the commission, who has resigned from the position effective Oct. 18, has filed a three-count suit of defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, against village council trustee Tony S...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] WAKEFIELD — Residents looking to travel east from Wakefield will have to continue taking the detour around Lake Gogebic if they want to use M-28, as the Jackson Creek bridge project isn’t expected to be finished this month. “While we can’t give a definite date for reopening to traffic, we are confident the project will be completed this construction season,” said Dan Weingarten, a Michigan Department of Transportation spokesman. “We will let the public know as soon as a solid timeline is establis...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The city of Ironwood must pay $170,000 as its share of the costs regarding the 2012 gasification plant clean-up project by the Environmental Protection Agency. The consent decree with the EPA for claims under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act relating to the gas plant site was approved Monday by the city commission on a 3-0 vote. Joe Cayer Jr. and Kim Corcoran were absent. Mayor Annette Burchell and City Clerk Karen Gullan were authorized to sign the a...
ONTONAGON - Monday was celebrated as Ontonagon Day by the state in a proclamation presented to the Ontonagon Village Council Monday by state Rep. Scott Dianda, D-Calumet. Dianda said the proclamation, which was offered at the Capitol in Lansing by Dianda and state Sen. Tom Casperson, D-Escanaba, marks the 175th year of the village of Ontonagon. Dianda, read from the proclamation which noted the village was founded on May 2, 1842, at the mouth of the Ontonagon River by James K. Paul. He said the...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] UPSON, Wis. - The first Oktoberfest at Whitecap Mountains Resort in Upson featured a crisp, colorful Saturday with participants arriving in rows of cars or all-terrain vehicles. A large, white tent greeted them with jukebox music and enticing aromas of picnic-style foods, along with hot and cold beverages. Gina Secord, of Odanah, was ushering her daughter, Kaylin, and her niece, Audrey Nelis-Stone, to a hay ride after some rowdy playtime in a bounce house....
IRONWOOD - With the mid-term elections only a month away, the Gogebic County Democratic Party has opened an Aurora Street office next to the Bake Superior business, which is in the former Ronnie's Camera Shop. Members of the party met Friday to usher in the office, talk about supporting candidates and enjoy some snacks and refreshments with anyone who wanted to visit. State Rep. 110th District candidate Ken Summers, of Baraga, who has been a fixture in the county for the past several months,...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — As part of the city of Ironwood’s Plaidurday festivities, Ironwood Masonic Lodge No. 389 held an open house Friday. The lodge has been holding the open houses every First Friday, according to Andy Tait, as an informational event where the public can stop in and find out what the organization is all about. “We’ve actually had pretty decent turnout,” said Tait, who currently leads the lodge. “We usually have two or three people come in, kind of poke their nose in and see what’s goin...
LANSING — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has authorized additional money to cover up to $7.4 million in matching funds Upper Peninsula grant recipients are required to pay under the Federal Emergency Management Agency public assistance program. June floods caused significant damage to portions of Gogebic, Houghton and Menominee counties. A preliminary damage assessment determined that public agencies in the three counties sustained nearly $30 million in damages that are eligible for public assistance relief. Local agencies must match 25 percent o...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - Sandy Morin believes in miracles and she has seen that miracle in her journey with cancer. One of Morin's passions is quilting. She belongs to quilt groups and often they have quilting retreats, where like- minded sewers spend a weekend looking at different patterns and styles of quilts and exchanging information. In December 2016, she was helping to ready the area for such a retreat, and helped to move a large television. By the next day her...
By STEVE NEWMAN [email protected] MARENISCO — Waupaca Foundry, a company subsidiary based in Waupaca, Wis., held a job fair Friday that continues today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Marenisco Town Hall, with the possibility of locating a plant on the Gogebic Range. According to Donna Kenney, of Marenisco Township, the company approached the township about a job fair two to three weeks ago. According to Richard Bouvette, township supervisor, Waupaca’s interest in locating in the area is “extremely serious” and they are “looking for a via...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] OMA, Wis. - The Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association is teaching kids across the region about the forest industry with a two-day Log-a-Load for kids symposium. Day one, on Thursday, saw 408 school kids arrive from schools across northern Wisconsin and the western Upper Peninsula take in a series of learning stations set up in the woods north of Pine Lake in Oma. Today will see 588 more kids come through, according to Tara Krall, Iron County...
MERCER, Wis. — The 16th annual Pumpkin Run ATV/UTV Rally kicked off Thursday and runs through the weekend in Iron County. More than 200 riders have registered for the event, held to promote riding in Iron County — “the ultimate ATV and UTV adventure,” according to Beth Wetzler, executive director of the Mercer Area Chamber of Commerce. A three-day poker run, ATV, UTV and lawn tractor pulls, a Great Pumpkin Parade through downtown Mercer, and a wrap-up party on Saturday night are some of the rally’s highlights. There are also two poker run...
