Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — Volunteers will span Ontonagon county from May 4 to May 18 in the annual Ontonagon County Cancer Association Fund Drive. The Ontonagon Association, which is independent and not associated with any state or national entity, was formed to provide financial assistance to Ontonagon County cancer patients. Cancer patients are eligible to receive financial help with travel to cancer appointments and any other cancer bills not covered by insurance. It also helps provide cancer mammograms and prostate b...
By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected] IRONWOOD - GCC Cosmetology unveiled its branding strategy at a Thursday afternoon celebration held at Gogebic Community College. Invitees gathered around students holding balloons as instructors Nicole Hocking and Laura Erickson ripped off a plastic covering to reveal the program's new name, "The Cosmetology Academy - Creative Careers." Erickson, instructor at the academy, said the cosmetology program has never had a brand. "It was time to give us our...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - The nine singers and performers in Hurley's Silver Express are finishing up their final rehearsals in the coming days as they prepare for the concerts and subsequent spring tour. The group of five seniors, four freshman and one sophomore will perform shows at 7 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday in the Hurley K-12 School's auditorium. The shows promise a, "Huge variety of music, from oldies to what's on the radio today," co-director Roy...
ONTONAGON — A Ewen man who claimed the “laws of nature” decree that “he did not need a license to hunt deer, was found guilty of just that in an Ontonagon jury trial Thursday. Ronald Ehinger, 68, was charged with two counts of taking an antlered deer with 8 points or more. Ehinger demanded a jury trial and a 6 person jury heard the case Thursday morning before Judge Janis Burgess. It took the jury ten minutes to find the Ewen man guilty. A sentencing date will be set. In addition to fines and court costs, Ehinger will be liable for restitu...
By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected] IRONWOOD - Attendees of the iGuardian parent program listened to Special Agent Todd Wilton, with the Department of Homeland Security, discuss tips on internet safety Wednesday night at Gogebic Community College. Maija Grace, from Wakefield, came to the event to learn about the dangers of social media. "I just want to learn what signs as a parent I need to look out for," she said. She said her kids do have cellphones and use the internet to game...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The Hurley and Mercer students in Iron County's Woods and Waters program had a chance to see some of the commercial uses of the trees in the Northwoods as they toured some of the local timber companies Wednesday. The tours were designed to give students an idea of what happens to the trees after they are logged. “It dawned on me last year ... where we had our tour of the logging aspect of (the timber industry),” said Iron County conse...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] BESSEMER — More than a dozen local citizens gathered Tuesday evening at A.D. Johnston Junior andHigh School in Bessemer for an informational session on a continuing millage proposed by the Bessemer Area Board of Education. Superintendent Dave Wineburner led the session, which consisted of him narrating a related slide show and then opening the floor to questions. The event in the school’s multipurpose room was offered as a venue in which to explain why the board is asking for residents to support a 2.0...
By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected] IRONWOOD - Elementary students at Luther L. Wright K-12 School gathered in the gymnasium on Monday to hear a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security talk about how to be safer while online. Stationed in Sault Ste. Marie, Agent Todd Wilton told the Daily Globe, with more than 750,000 registered sex offenders in Michigan, educating students to be aware of danger signs can protect them from internet predators. "It is mind-blowing how many...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] BESSEMER — The Bessemer city council voted Monday evening to pass an ordinance to prohibit zoning in relation to the enterprise of recreational marijuana. The unanimous vote followed the second reading of Ordinance No. 372, as well as a public hearing in which no comments were offered. The council already had voted previously to prohibit marijuana enterprise, but city manager Charly Loper then had recommended also passing a separate, related zoning ordinance on the basis of legal opinion. In another u...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — Ontonagon County Equalization Director, Ann Marie Husar had some good news for the Ontonagon County Board Tuesday. Husar said the valuation of Ontonagon County in 2018 has risen by 2.5% over the previous year and the taxable value has increased by 3%. Husar gave the board the value change in each of the categories in the county, noting that Commercial Property has increased by 4.49% and residential real property by 3.04%. Husar cited the new Dollar General in Ontonagon as part of the reason for t...
IRONWOOD - The Gogebic Community College Foundation threw a party Monday to benefit the college. The 10th annual Taste of the Gogebic Range drew a crowd Monday evening filling the David G. Lindquist Student Center lounge. A ticket for the event gave the attendee a set of coupons good for samplings of food and beverages at tables set up around the room, offering fare from area restaurants and caterers. "It's a fun event and we're excited for another good turnout," said foundation director Kelly...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] RAMSAY - The U.S. Post Office in Ramsay has been locked for more than five weeks, since regional postal authorities in Grand Rapids posted a notice of closure on March 8. On Monday morning, a pair of pigeons peered out of the front window having likely entered via an exposed region directly under the collapsed roof. Speaking by phone afterwards from Grand Rapids, postal spokesperson Sabrina Todd said she would inform local authorities of the situation. As...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — Ironwood Area Schools may soon be paying less on some of its bonds as the district’s board of education approved a resolution explore refinancing its older bonds Monday. The measure would be for two of the district’s bond measures — a $1,655,000 measure from 2002 and a $1.4 million measure from 2009 — and is designed to save the district money by getting a lower rate. Superintendent Travis Powell said the district would only proceed with refinancing the bonds if it was determine...
By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected] BESSEMER - Kids waited for the countdown before scrambling to load their baskets with eggs during Bessemer's annual Easter egg hunt held at the VFW on Saturday. In a matter of minutes, more than 2,000 plastic eggs were in the hands of children who pried them apart hoping to find a ticket and win a prize bucket. Bridgette Strebe, a third grader in Ironwood, said she helped her little brother find one of the special eggs. "I kinda directed him where to...
By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected] WAKEFIELD - People hit the slopes at Indianhead Mountain on Saturday trying to squeeze in a few more runs before the ski resort closed for the season. B.J. Westfahl, from Fox Point, Wis., said he and his family traveled about five hours to ski the final weekend. "It's nice to get the last run in before winter ends," he said. Westfahl said the snowfall this week kind of "pushed" them "over the edge" which helped their decision to make the trek a...
By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected] HURLEY — The smell of sizzling butter and frying flapjacks filled the Iron County Memorial Building during the Hurley Lion’s Club annual pancake breakfast on Sunday. Jerry Pisani, club president, said they have been doing the pancake fundraiser for “way over 20 years.” “The revenue we receive from this is mostly donated to 4-H Summer Youth Camp in Manitowish Waters,” he said. With roughly about 200 people expected to come to the event, Pisani said it is a lot of work to set everything up. Student...
By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected] IRONWOOD — Braving blizzard conditions, Tristan McIntosh and fellow band members of the Linda Ronstadt Experience drove from Minneapolis, Minn. to perform Friday night at the Historic Ironwood The winter storm tuned a four hour drive into a nine hour route though a national park with no cell phone reception, but McIntosh said despite feeling a little nervous at times, she felt drawn to the HIT. “I don’t know what kind of magic is in this old aweso...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — Iron County employees likely won’t have to use their own vehicles when traveling out of the area for work, after the Iron County Board of Supervisors’ finance committee recommended purchasing two county vehicles Thursday. The two Jeep Cherokee Latitudes are expected to cost roughly $22,098 a piece, according information presented at the meeting. Based on information presented at previous committee meetings, the purchase is expected to be less than the county spends paying for mileage each...
WAKEFIELD — After decades of work with snowmobile trails, the Gogebic Range Trail Authority is expanding its work to support ORV use in the region, according to club president Steve Hamilton. The GRTA recently became part of a Michigan Department of Natural Resources administered ORV Trail Sponsorship Program. This program establishes GRTA as the maintainers of a 12-mile ORV trail from M-64 in Marenisco west to Korpela Road in Wakefield Township, and provides access to ORV trail-permit improvement funds, according to Hamilton. The club p...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The process of reimbursing local communities for damaged sustained during a pair of storms last year is under way as the Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun issuing checks to Iron County communities included in the federal disaster declarations. The town of Oma and the city of Montreal should be receiving checks for $5,417 and $3,206 respectively in the coming days for the costs they spent on “protective measures,” according to Iron County Emergency Management Director Stace...
By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected] BESSEMER - The Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency has made changes to its monthly delivery of groceries through its Commodity Supplemental Food Program. Linda Cossi, CSFP coordinator, said, more pick-up locations plus the convenience of a "drive-through" system will allow for more efficient food distribution. "Like in Ontonagon," she said, "We'll park our truck in the Catholic church parking lot. People will drive up - we'll put the box in...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] BESSEMER — Members of Bessemer’s Downtown Development Authority learned Thursday that they received an $8,000 grant from the Western Upper Peninsula Planning and Development Region. City manager Charly Loper said the funds, which include an additional $2,000 required match from the DDA, will be applied to creating videos aimed at marketing the city as a great place in which to work and live. “We are going to be focusing on six short videos of people who work here,” said Loper, who added that attenti...
