Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — City manager Scott Erickson told city commissioners Monday an additional $220,000 grant has been approved for Ironwood’s blight fight. The funds will again come through the Michigan State Housing Development Authority. Erickson said it’s hoped 10 to 12 houses will be demolished in 2019 in continuation of the Hardest Hit grant program that has resulted in dozens of eyesores being eliminated throughout the city. Bids are sought for area firms to tear down the structures. In other busin...
ONTONAGON — Christmas in Ontonagon starts Thursday with a Christmas Concert at the Christian Center at 6 p.m. On Friday, two youth dances are slated, one for grades 6-7-8, and another for the high school students. Judging of the business and residential lighting contest has started, but business and home owners have until Thursday to register. On Saturday, the activity gets in full swing with a grand opening of the U.P. North Café and open houses at several businesses. A Christmas craft fair will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Ontonagon Ar...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - It was fitting that the Warren Miller tribute movie "The Face of Winter" on Saturday kicked off a week of Jack Frost Festival events, as sticky snow was falling across the Gogebic Range. The tribute to the man who made winter magic on film was released in October, directed by Chris Patterson. It premiered Saturday night on the big screen at the Historic Ironwood Theatre. Miller, using a movie formula of skiers riding big mountains on plenty...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - Supporters of the effort to develop non-motorized trails in Iron County are looking to raise the money needed to continue their efforts, with a fundraiser planned in early December. Iron County Outdoor Recreation Enthusiasts will hold a fundraising dinner Dec. 2 at Sharon's Coffee Company in Hurley. ICORE treasurer Bob Traczyk said the event, from 3:30 to 6 p.m., will feature a menu of salad, pizza, pasta and dessert. There will also be a...
By RALPH ANSAMI ransami@yourdailyglobe ODANAH, Wis. — The National Traffic Safety Board has released a preliminary report of the Oct. 29 helicopter crash that killed the pilot, who was on pipeline patrol for Enbridge Energy near Odanah. Dean Bass, 64, of Ontario, Canada, died in the crash. The flight departed that day from the Gogebic-Iron County Airport around 1 p.m. for routine pipeline patrol, en route to Superior, Wis. The helicopter struck trees and terrain before coming to rest in an upright position. A post-crash fire then consumed m...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] While many larger stores started offering their bargains Thursday night, several local retailers reported successful Black Friday sales. “We were slammed starting at 8 a.m., and this is probably the first time it’s let up,” Hobby Wheel owner Eric Fitting said at around 3 p.m. Fitting said it was probably the best Black Friday the store has seen in 15 years, which he attributed to not only a healthy economy, but also the recent snowstorms. “Anytime we have snow, it seems like business picks up,” Fi...
The Iron County Fire Association will host its annual Christmas for Kids toy drive on Saturday, Dec. 8, from 8 a.m. to noon. All fire stations in Iron County will be open that day to receive donations for Iron County kids in need, said Iron County Emergency Services Director Stacey Ofstad. “We want to help out area kids in need and see that every kid has a great Christmas,” said Ofstad. “We don’t want any kid waking up on Christmas morning without a present.” Officials aren’t just collecting unwrapped toys, but other items for kids, as we...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] Iron County’s unemployment rate improved to 4.2 percent in October from 4.6 percent in September. That wasn’t enough to pull the county out of the second worst job numbers in Wisconsin, however. Only Menominee County, at 4.4 percent, posted higher jobless numbers of the 72 counties in the state. A year ago, Iron County was also at 4.2 percent. Ashland County continues to make real strides, improving from 3.1 percent in September to 2.8 percent in October, according to the Wisconsin Department of Wor...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - The 4-year-olds in Ironwood's Great Start Readiness Program will have a new home next week when they return to classes Monday as the program completes its transition from the George N. Sleight School to Luther L. Wright K-12 School. "We have green lights from the state, this is a go. Monday is for real," Superintendent Travis Powell said Wednesday. "The children will be dropped off in our bus lane like the rest of our students." Those...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - Donors reported longer wait times than past events Wednesday as the community turned out to the Ironwood Memorial Building to participate in the American Red Cross blood drive. "(It went) fantastic," blood drive coordinator Betsy Slabaugh said. "We didn't expect (the turnout.) We had a full list (of appointments) but still people walked in a lot." The drive - sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of the Ironwood Area - had a goal of collecting 58...
HURLEY — Voters in the Hurley School District will decide on April 2 whether the Midget mascot will remain. The school board Monday approved wording for a referendum that will ask: “Should the Hurley School District’s mascot symbol and name be changed?” School board president Joe Simonich, of Kimball, originally asked if it’s time for a name change. The board this week voted unanimously to proceed with the binding referendum on April 2. If a majority of yes votes are received, the board will begin a process to come up with a new name. Two...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - The 4.5-inch snowfall that fell for the 24-hour period to 7 a.m. Tuesday in Ironwood has been typical for the month. With more than a week left in November, Ironwood has received 31 inches of snow this month and there was 14 inches on the ground Tuesday at the National Weather Service station site at the Gogebic-Iron Wastewater Treatment Plant on the Montreal River. Typical monthly snowfall through Nov. 20 is 13.3 inches. Snow continued to...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - Even though it's not Thanksgiving yet, some Ironwood students got a head start on the holiday festivities as they made several pumpkin pies Tuesday. Rebecca Sim, who is filling in for Carolyn Warren while she's on maternity leave, had her class of first graders work together to make the pumpkin pie filling. The students took turns adding the flour, sugar, eggs and other ingredients before the filling was poured into four pie crusts...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD — Members of the Wakefield-Marenisco board of education learned at Monday how the district supports students classified as homeless. According to superintendent Jason Gustafson, the Wakefield-Marenisco K-12 School has 11 such students. He said they fit the definition simply because they live with relatives or friends, rather than with immediate family. Gustafson said if children were living with parents in the Eddy Park Campground, they also would be classified as homeless, as would kids a...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] Today is the Daily Globe's 99th birthday, and therefore begins it's 100th year of publication. Readers will find the notation Vol. 100, No. 1 on the bottom of Page 1. The Daily Globe is planning several events leading up to its 100th birthday on Nov. 20, 2019, according to publisher Sue Mizell. "We're looking forward to a big year and some exciting things this year and beyond," Mizell said. Co-owner Gary Stevenson, of Sheridan, Wyo., said he was exc...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Ironwood Area Schools continues to improve its financial situation, with the board of education passing a budget amendment Monday. The amendment is part of the district's efforts to grow its fund balance - efforts which appear to be succeeding. "The work we've been doing to reduce our spending so far this year, combined with an increased per-pupil amount and stable enrollment ... has resulted in an estimated fund balance at the end...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] The folks at Santa's Headquarters are back at it again looking to ensure each child in Gogebic County has a good Christmas. It's about children and families, according to Ashley Dennis of the Michigan State University-Extension office in Bessemer. "We want to help families that need a little extra help providing Christmas to their children." This is the 13th annual Santa's Headquarters, an organization run by an ad hoc committee of a dozen or so...
By STEVE NEWMAN [email protected] HURLEY - Crafters and those who appreciate their work flooded the Hurley K-12 School commons for the Hurley Booster Club Craft Fair on Saturday. The annual show, has become a tradition during this time of the year. Vendors were in good spirits as they displayed the results of their hard work. Susan and John Kopacz, from Hurley, brought stained glass creations. She cuts the glass pieces by hand and solders them together to form special designs. John was...
MASS CITY — A 16-year-old youth is dead after an accidental gun discharge in a Mass City home Friday. According to the Ontonagon County Sheriff’s Department the department responded to a possible shooting accident in a Mass City home Friday at 3:08 p.m. A Sheriff Department release said an investigation revealed a 13-year-old male and a 16-year-old male were at the 13-year-old’s residence when the 13-year-old was loading a rifle and the weapon fired striking the 16-year-old in the back. A 14-year-old male was at the residence and called 911,...
BESSEMER - Three lanes or four? The Michigan Department of Transportation is planning to reconstruct U.S. 2 across the city of Bessemer in 2021 and city officials have planned a public hearing on the issue of how many lanes there should be when it's done. The hearing will be held Monday, Nov. 26, at 6 p.m. in the city hall auditorium. There are currently four lanes of traffic through the city, but MDOT officials have pitched the idea of three lanes - one for eastbound traffic, one for westbound...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican-controlled House passed a bill Friday to drop legal protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states, reopening a lengthy battle over the predator species. Long despised by farmers and ranchers, wolves were shot, trapped and poisoned out of existence in most of the U.S. by the mid-20th century. Since securing protection in the 1970s, wolves have bounced back in the western Great Lakes states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, as well as in the Northern R...
BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners this week went on record as supporting the purchase of land from Pat Steiger for the next phase of the Iron Belle Trail. The non-motorized trail will extend from Bessemer to Ramsay. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources sought the letter of support from the county. The land will be purchased from Steiger Timber Operations. More than $1.1 million has been raised for the $1.4 million trail project and the remaining $300,000 is expected to come through in December from a MDNR Trust F...
