Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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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...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — Iron County won’t be able to officially award the contract until federal officials sign off, but the county’s forestry committee recommended a contractor for building Saxon Harbor’s campground Wednesday so everything will be ready once federal approval comes through. Four companies submitted bids to rebuild the harbor’s campground — which was destroyed in the July 2016 storm — with Snow Country Contracting’s bid of $1,802,873 coming in as the low bid. “The bids were, across the board, very...
ONTONAGON - Michigan Trails and Recreation Alliance of Land and the Environment received a grant for $363,630 to complete upcoming trail projects. Linda Schulz, secretary and special project coordinator for MI-TRALE, said the money will be used to replace an "old iron beam bridge" that collapsed in 2013 and a couple other projects scheduled for 2019. "We were there one and the next day we were there to finish up our project and the bridge fell in overnight," she said. Schulz said MI-TRALE has be...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — The dredging of the Ontonagon Harbor is expected to be done after the Fourth of July. EDC member Pat Tucker told the Economic Development Corporation Board Wednesday that the dredging company officials have received the contract from the Army Corps of Engineers to perform the dredging and the project manager told Tucker he will be coming to Ontonagon at the end of April or early May to look over the area. The manager had slated a visit for March when the area received a big snowstorm and it was pos...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The City of Wakefield addressed its first "rain event" of the year by discharging an excess of diluted raw sewage into designated ditch lines between Sunday and Monday. According to city manager Bob Brown, the action was necessary in order to minimize sewer water back-up into the basements of some Wakefield homes and businesses. "The pumps were fully functional prior to that," said Brown at Monday's meeting of the Wakefield city council. "We...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] RAMSAY - A Tuesday evening public session on a continuing millage proposed by the Bessemer board of education closed early after nobody showed up during the first 15 minutes. The Q & A meeting was offered so the general public could learn details about why the board is asking citizens to vote for a levy of 2.05 mills at a May 7 election. Superintendent Dave Wineburner said the lack of attendance probably suggested that local residents realize the...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — It’s a situation no one wants to be in, but Ironwood Township officials are preparing to move forward following township supervisor Steve Boyd’s death. Boyd died early Thursday morning following a battle with cancer. The township board has 45 days from last Friday to appoint a person to fill the vacant supervisor position, which township officials said translates to May 19. “They have to take the oath prior to that (date),” said treasurer Maria Graser. If the board doesn’t a...
By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The Michigan State Police Wakefield Post 86 recently had three troopers join its ranks. Stefin Robinson, Paul Maxinoski and Evan Fezatt completed 28 weeks at the MSP's training academy and all three said the training was "intense." "I thought I was in good shape going in, but I'm definitely in better shape now," Fezatt said. F/Lt. Donald Horn, commander of the Wakefield Post, recognized how difficult it is to become a trooper. "For a recru...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Given the proximity to the township’s existing system, the Ironwood Township Board of Trustees agreed to take over responsibility of a water line Tuesday. Located on Country Club Road, the line will be under the roadway to tie in the Gogebic County Country Club and Elk & Hound restaurant into the township’s system. The property is currently part of the city of Ironwood’s water system. Ironwood Utilities Manager Bob Tervonen said the property is at the end of the city’s...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield city council voted Monday evening to appoint Dale White to a seat left vacant when former member Pat Mann resigned, effective Feb. 28. White has been a member of the planning commission for a decade and is in his third term as the chair. After mayor John Granato declared White the best candidate, he and members Kay Wiita and Jim Anderson voted for the appointment and mayor pro tempore Amy Tarro voted against it. When White interviewed for the job by phone last Saturday, he t...
WAKEFIELD - The family of John M. Pachmayer aimed to have 100 people at his 100th birthday last Saturday, and that objective was likely achieved. The celebration began with a social time in the bar area of Wakefield VFW Post 9084, where friends, family members and associates gathered as immediate family transported Pachmayer around the room in his wheelchair. Pachmayer was born on April 8, 1919 to the late Charles and Anna Pachmayer in Ironwood and lived mainly in this region throughout his... Full story
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] KIMBALL, Wis. - The Penokee Range 4-H Livestock Club held its annual Spring Fun Frolic at the Kimball Community Center Saturday. Although the rain meant some plans had to changed so outside events could move inside, organizers were pleased to see the community come support the club. "We had a very good turnout today," said Carol Alonen, the club's general leader. She said the rain meant the petting zoo was reduced in size and several large boxes of...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - State Rep. Greg Markkanen, R-Houghton, and former state senator Tom Casperson were on hand Saturday to address questions from constituents at Wakefield VFW Post 9084. Markkanen, who was elected to his post last November, told the Globe that one of the main concerns expressed to him Saturday is the area's weak economy, particularly in the wake of Marenisco's Ojibway Correctional Facility closing at the end of last year. "I put in an appropriatio...
GRAND RAPIDS — Federal Department of Justice officials announced the sentences of a downstate Michigan man in a wild fish trafficking case last week. John Cross and John Cross Fisheries Inc., of Kalamazoo, were sentenced for trafficking in illegally transporting and selling lake trout, according to a department news release, and Cross Fisheries was also sentenced for making false records about whitefish purchases. Cross was ordered to serve 12 months in prison intermittently over the course of a five-year probation, according to the release, w...
