Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Several Ontonagon County townships, the village of Ontonagon, school boards and county board feature races Tuesday. The Ontonagon County Board of Commissioners has a write-in race for commissioners of the fifth and fourth districts. Gray Webber resigned in the fifth district for health reasons, but not until the filing date to get on the ballot had passed. Bryan Hamilton (no party affiliation) and Marlene Broemer (Democrat) have filed as write-ins for the seat. Hamilton has been serving on the board by commission appointment. In District 4,...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Once again the community has come together to support several food banks across the Gogebic Range, donating 31,810 pounds of food to the Michigan State Police Wakefield Post's annual food drive. "I'm very, very happy. The community stepped up and was very generous. They made all this possible," said post commander First Lt. Don Horn. The donations were collected over the past two weeks, according to Horn, and distributed Thursday to...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] BESSEMER - Members of the Bessemer parks and recreation commission were grateful to learn Thursday of new trail links that connect to an existing path behind the city's Bluff Valley Park. With the help of a photo slide show, Kelden Witt, of Bessemer, reported about the new trail work he has accomplished since the city council approved the project last July. Witt said he has nearly accomplished his goal to create new entry and exit trails that connect with...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] Wakefield-Marenisco School and All Saints Academy in Ironwood are among 188 public and private schools in the state to share $25 million in grants to upgrade door locks and other security features in the wake of mass shootings in other states. Gov. Rick Snyder said the grants are part of a “proactive approach” to help prevent tragedies in schools. W-M received $25,000 and All Saints was given $10,200. Michigan State Police received 407 applications requesting $69 million — far more than the $25 m...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] LONGUEUIL, Quebec — Highland Copper has secured one of the permits needed to develop its mine in the northern part of Gogebic County. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s resource division issued an amended wetland, lakes and streams permit for the company’s Copperwood project in northern Ironwood and Wakefield townships, the company announced Tuesday. “The receipt of the Wetlands Permit is a significant milestone in obtaining all permits required for the development of the Copperw...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] IRONWOOD - While the Historic Ironwood Theatre's seventh annual HIT Idol performances will be another melding of top local, young talent and a nationally renowned vocal performer, this year's offering has a best-of-the-best feel. As in year's past, it's still a two-night affair. Friday will bring another blast of local youth to the stage to perform many styles of vocal selections, and Saturday has another headliner from the American Idol television...
By RALPH ANSAMI ransami@yourdailyglobe MELLEN, Wis. — Family members and friends of Jody Lynn Newberry, the 54-year-old Bergland woman who has been missing since May 29, are urging hunters to keep an eye out for any clues about her disappearance. With the media spotlight focusing on the case of 13-year-old Jayme Closs, who is missing from Barron, Wis., after her parents were murdered, the Newberry family has posted an online messages asking hunters to look for any type of a clue that might be related to the missing Bergland woman. Last week, h...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] ODANAH, Wis. - The National Transportation Safety Board said the pilot of a helicopter was killed in a crash reported early Tuesday in the Birch Hill area of the Bad River Indian Reservation. The pilot was identified as Dean Bass, 64, of Ontario, Canada. Numerous agencies had been looking for the Enbridge Energy helicopter since it failed to arrive at the Duluth International Airport Monday evening for a brief stop before heading to its destination in...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — An Ironwood man will have to serve two and a half years in prison after being sentenced in Gogebic County Circuit Court Tuesday. Michael David Zupan, 32, was sentenced to between six months and 10 years in prison for each of two counts of receiving and concealing stolen firearms. He was also sentenced to two years in prison for possessing a firearm while committing a felony. “The materials that were stolen here weren’t just TVs, appliances and other things of a personal nature, they...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] BESSEMER — Voters in the Bessemer School District will face a busy ballot on Tuesday as part of a larger general election ballot full of federal, state and local candidates and issues. There are six candidates running for five seats on the Bessemer School Board in what is two separate races, as well as a district-wide question about renewing a millage limited to 18 mills levied on non-homesteads for another 10 years to provide funds for operating purposes — a move generally known as a Headlee ame...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The wait is over. For the first time since the end of May, drivers on M-28 could use the bridge over Jackson Creek Monday afternoon. The bridge east of Wakefield had been expected to reopen Wednesday after the Michigan Department of Transportation announced Friday it was pushing back the prior target date of the weekend due to "rainy weather and saturated ground conditions." However, according to MDOT spokesman Dan Weingarten, work...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - Edwin Hokans was a shop teacher at the Ontonagon School in the 1930s when he and his wife, Esther, decided to build a cabin on their property one and one-half miles outside of Ontonagon. One cabin led to another and eventually a motel was added, with the complex known as Hokans Cabins and Motel. Since that time, with its location on Lake Superior, the cabins have changed hands many times. All the owners since Edwin Hokans Sr. gathered at the...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — An 81-year-old Kimball, Wis., man appeared in court Monday morning on two threat counts and an additional count of making a terroristic threat. Robert “Barrel Bob” Gollubske is 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. Iron County Judge Patrick Madden advised Gollubske to seek representation through the public defender’s office. Gollubske said he had sought to contact...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - A "Fun Frolic" at the Wakefield-Marenisco K-12 School packed the gym Saturday as fuzzy animals, skeletons, mummies, superheroes, and even a pint-sized policeman ran to and fro with pumpkin-faced bags, collecting candy and memories while making lots of noise. The event, which was bursting with joy, featured a central area circled in chairs, where tiny witches, goblins, etc. could play safely in a munchkin-sized acrylic house or shoot balls into...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER - Screams echoed off the slopes of Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort this weekend as the ski hill and the Awkward Stage Drama Club partnered to host A Haunting at the Hill. "(A haunted house) has always been something (we've considered), and all of us thought it would be a really fun thing to do. And so we decided to try and go for it this year," said Cathy Flory, who oversees marketing and special events for Powderhorn. "And then (we) found...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — The audience at the Historic Ironwood Theatre had a chance to go back in time and experience a silent movie the way it was intended Saturday, watching “The Man Who Laughs” with Andrew Rogers accompanying the film on the theatre’s Barton organ. “This is great to see, (there’s) a nice little crowd here for the movie and Andrew always does such a nice job accompanying it,” said Bruce Greenhill, the theatre’s operations manager. “A lot of new faces tonight, which is good. (We had) a bit of...
WAKEFIELD — The reopening of the M-28 bridge over Jackson Creek east of Wakefield has been further delayed. The detour was planned to be lifted Oct. 27, but the bridge is now expected to be reopened to traffic on Oct. 31, weather permitting. Access is being maintained to businesses and residences along M-28. Eastbound traffic is detoured onto U.S.2 at Wakefield, then north onto M-64 and back to M-28. The route is reversed for westbound traffic. The length of the detour is 33.5 miles. Michigan Department of Transportation is investing $3.9 m...
Unemployment numbers reached nearly 30-year low levels in Gogebic and Ontonagon counties in September, according to the Michigan Bureau of Labor Market information. In Gogebic County, the September jobless rate was 4 percent, down from 4.4 percent in August. One year ago, the September rate was 5.4 percent. According to the bureau’s statistics, the size of the civilian labor force in the county fell from 6,075 in August to 6,025 in September. Total employment in Gogebic County was also down. Twenty-five fewer people were employed in S...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] HURLEY - Kathy Santini will celebrate her fifth anniversary next month. It's been five years since a mammogram revealed she had breast cancer. Santini said she'd been getting mammograms annually "for years," and the one in November of 2013 showed she had ductal carcinoma in situ, which she said means the cancer had not spread beyond the spot in which it was found. "If you have to get cancer," she said, "that's the kind to get." She said breast cancer did...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - The inspection of the city of Ironwood's water tank on Mt. Zion found no issues and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality gave the go-ahead to begin refilling the tank. That's the good news. The bad news is the process of draining the water tank so it can be inspected is likely the cause of numerous water leaks throughout the city Wednesday and Thursday. "We have guys trying to take a peek in the tank and trying to put it back...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WATERSMEET - A Wednesday evening town meeting on Gogebic County's proposed ambulance millage drew several dozen people to the Watersmeet Community Center. The nearly two-hour session was led by Jim Lorenson and Jim Loeper, members of the Gogebic County ambulance committee. The Nov. 6 election ballot will ask county residents to vote yes or no on raising taxes for three years on all Gogebic property by no more than one mill, or $1 of state taxable...
