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Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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SAXON, Wis. - Alena and Kyle Luoma, of Saxon, wanted to do something nice for the region's youth and help support gun safety and all-terrain vehicle education classes. The owners of Luoma's Saxon Pub decided to conducr a 50-50 raffle to raise money to help David Vuorenmaa's efforts with Hurley Area Safety Education. He's the outfit's lead instructor, working with both gun safety and ATV classes. When it came time for the drawing, a ticket purchased by Luomas in the name of the Pub was drawn and...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — Iron County residents once again have the chance to purchase a variety of native plants for their properties, as the Iron County Land and Water Conservation Department is holding its annual native plant sale. The department is selling a variety of trees, shrubs, grasses and wildflowers that naturally grow in Iron County, with orders due by Feb. 22. “By planting natives, they are already acclimated to our soil conditions, our growing season and sunlight conditions. So they’re better adapt...
IRONWOOD - Eighty-five people participated in the seventh annual Mark Fitting Memorial snowshoe walk Wednesday evening. It was the start of the region's weekly Wednesday night Superior Snowshoe walks. "We had another good turnout," said organizer Sam Davey afterwards. "Conditions were great." This week's walk started and ended at the Michigan Information Center on U.S. 2 on a trail that begins in the parking lot and heads south along the Montreal River to Riverside Cemetery and back. The annual...
IRONWOOD — A sexual assault victim services federal grant has been awarded to DOVE, Inc., by the Victims of Crime Act to be used for services to sexual assault victims in Gogebic County. According to Jeanine Winkowski, executive director of DOVE, “With this grant DOVE will be able to enhance the victim services in Gogebic County by hiring a full-time sexual assault victim advocate and a full-time sexual assault response team coordinator.” She said $67,000 has been received in the grant for nine months. She said the grant will increase in Octob...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] As of Dec. 6 last year, it became legal in Michigan to possess and use recreational marijuana within designated guidelines. The new freedom occurred despite 10 of the Upper Peninsula’s 15 counties voting no on Proposal 1 during the mid-term elections on Nov. 6. Only Marquette, Houghton, Keweenaw, Chippewa and Alger counties joined many downstate locales in approving the measure. Fifty-six percent of Michigan’s voters said yes, but county totals were sometimes close, as in Gogebic, where 3,377 said no and...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — After postponing action for several meetings, the Ironwood Township board of trustees passed the township’s 2019 budget at a special meeting Thursday. Based on discussions over the past few meetings, the passed budget cuts several proposed line items — including raises for the three elected officials who work in the township offices. The original proposed budget had included a $1,123 increase in salaries for the township supervisor, treasurer and clerk. These raises — which w...
BESSEMER — As the new year is ushered in, Gogebic County is looking for a new medical examiner. At a committee meeting early this month, the county board of commissioners learned that Charlie Iknayan, the medical examiner, had suffered a stroke earlier in the year and will be retiring. He is not renewing his medical license effective Feb. 1, 2019. According to minutes of the December committee meeting, the county is shipping its autopsies to Dickinson County at a cost of more than what Iknayan was charging the county. The cost of an autopsy i...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The Gogebic Range Trail Authority began grooming Friday's fresh snow to form the base of its snowmobile trails Friday. "We are entering our third season, running with a 100 percent all-volunteer staff," said GRTA president Steve Hamilton. "We're the only club in the western Upper Peninsula to operate like this." As is typical with early season conditions, club members faced a mixed bag of weather as they prepared to trail-groom in earnest ov...
Editor's note: In the past several days, the Daily Globe has been counting down the top five stories of 2018. The fifth and final story today is about the Dec. 1 closing of the Ojibway Correctional Facility in Marenisco. Number 2 was the Feb. 21 downtown Ironwood fire. Number 3 was the Ironwood Township embezzlement case. Number 4 centered on events surrounding the murder of Wayne Valliere, Jr. in the Mercer, Wis., area a year ago. Number 5 addressed the recently passed three-year ambulance...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Superior Snowshoe walks kick off Tuesday with the Mark Fitting Annual Memorial Walk at the Michigan Information Center on U.S. 2. The walks will take place Wednesdays through March 13, starting at 6:30 p.m. This year’s schedule of walks is: —Jan. 2, Mark Fitting Annual Memorial Walk, sponsored by Pit Stop. —Jan. 9, Bessemer walk at Iron Belle trailhead behind city hall, sponsored by Bessemer VFW. —Jan. 16, Cottonwood tree walk, sponsored by Manny’s Restaurant. —Jan. 23, Gogebic C...
After 14 years in the Michigan legislature, six in the House and eight in the Senate, Tom Casperso, R-Escanaba, is moving on due to term limits. His time in the Senate ended with a string of appropriations for western Upper Peninsula projects, including $10 million for Copper Peak and Pine Mountain, $2 million for Gogebic Community College, $1.5 million to assist Waupaca Foundry and $1 million for Michigan DNR jobs for the area. In a sense, the main catalyst to be able to get new development and investment in the area was the Michigan...
HURLEY - The 6 to 8 inches of heavy snow that fell on Friday on the Gogebic Range improved conditions for all outdoor activities. Area motels and gas stations benefitted from the snow that also blanketed Minnesota and the Upper Peninsula. The Hurley Area Chamber of Commerce said the White Thunder Riders had three snowmobile trail groomers running on Friday and two would operate overnight. Trail conditions were fair to good in northern Iron County. Trails 3 and 13 south, from the Hogsback east/so...
Editor's note: The Daily Globe is counting down the Gogebic Range's top five stories of 2018 each day through Monday, New Year's Eve. The editorial department staff sat down and came up with its annual list, naming a fatal fire in the early morning hours of Feb. 20 in downtown Ironwood as the second-place story of the year. Feb. 21, 2018. City Commissioner Jim Mildren later said it was the day he "thought we might lose our downtown," as a fire left three dead and two buildings destroyed. The Ironwood Public Safety Department responded to...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — There were smiling faces on Ironwood City Commissioners Wednesday as they discussed economic developments in the late year that will benefit the area. “A number of things came our way,” city manager Scott Erickson said as he began listing some of the recent accomplishments, including $10 million for Copper Peak, $1.5 million from the state to assist Waupaca Foundry, Inc., in locating in city’s industrial park, $280,000 for the Miners Memorial Heritage Park mountain bike trail, $2 million...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] BESSEMER - Anna Talaska was sworn in as Gogebic County Probate Judge Thursday afternoon at the courthouse in Bessemer. Gogebic County Circuit Court Judge Michael Pope presided over the investiture in a courtroom filled with Talaska's family, friends and colleagues. From the bench, Pope welcomed the assembled to the a joyous occasion and spoke highly of Talaska's skills as an attorney and sense of justice. County clerk Gerry Pelissero administer the...
Editor’s note:The Daily Globe is counting down the Gogebic Range’s top five stories of 2018 each day through Monday, New Year’s Eve. The editorial department staff sat down and came up with its annual list, naming the Ironwood Township treasurer’s embezzlement case as the third-place story of the year. By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] Former township treasurer Jyl Olson-DeRosso was charged with 10 felony counts last year related to forgery and embezzlement stemming from her time in office. In 2018, township residents learned her f...
IRONWOOD - More colleges and universities are embracing eSports, or online video gaming, across North America and Gogebic Community College is no exception. This year, GCC has 17 players on its eSports team. The number also includes students attending the Copper Country Center in Houghton who can fully participate in the program, according to director of admission Kim Zechovich. The Gogebic Samsons eSports team is competing at a high level, said Jim Halverson, IT faculty member and team coach....
Editor's note: The Daily Globe is counting down the top five stories of 2018. Today's story, number 4, is about the events surrounding the murder of Wayne Valliere Jr. in the Mercer, Wis., area a year ago. Number 5 was the ambulance millage that was passed for three years in Gogebic County. --- By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] As 2019 approaches, the Lac du Flambeau tribal community continues to deal with a holiday horror of a year ago. The body of 25-year-old tribal member Wayne M....
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] IRONWOOD — As U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, returns to Washington for his second term representing Michigan’s First District in January, he’s hoping to shine a light on the good that Congress has done and he hopes will continue. While Washington gets low marks in the public eye for being highly partisan and having a lack of civility, Bergman sees things a little differently. “The one thing I feel bad for the American people is they don’t seem to see the bipartisan work that is done on a dai...
