Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners Wednesday adopted a resolution in support of the Gogebic Range Bank’s plans to develop the former Body Shop property in the Bessemer Industrial Park into office space. The Gogebic County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority received an application to develop the parcel that is considered “functionally obsolete.” Rudy Grbavcich, chairman of the GCBRA, and Neil Beckman, representing the bank, discussed the plans with the county board on Wednesday. Beckma...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - A public announcement of the construction and development of a $300 million advanced biofuels plant at the site of the closed paper mill in Ontonagon is "expected shortly," Pat Tucker told the Ontonagon County Economic Development Corporation Wednesday. He indicated SynSel Energy's closing on the funds - which are already secured - is in the process now of being transferred into the appropriate accounts. He said the process has been "moving slowly...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — On Tuesday morning, just before 7 a.m., an automobile driven by 64-year-old Kim Wright, of Bessemer, was struck on U.S. 2 while pulling out from Grandview Lane, near Aspirus Hospital. The car was pushed on top of a snowbank on its roof, with the driver’s side taking the brunt of the damage. The vehicle was struck by a van driven by a 34-year-old female, Deztany Breese, from Wakefield, heading west on the highway. A witness to the accident, who was trailing the van heading west on...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners Wednesday discussed a letter from Watersmeet Supervisor Mike Rogers requesting the road commission locate its operations in Marenisco. Rogers said a central location in the county would be better than building new facilities in the Ironwood Industrial Park, as has been proposed. “The idea that a new building would be built on the far western part of the county doesn’t make a lot of sense in terms of logistics,” Rogers wrote. He said Marenis...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - At its first meeting of the year Monday, the Wakefield City Council received good and bad financial news, based on an audit of the 2016-17 fiscal year. Certified Public Accountant Karl "Gus" Ahonen said that the city has a total net pension liability of $2,379,511, a situation that many other cities and counties also face in varying degrees. In addition, he said the council should hire an actuary to update the city's "other post-employment...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — Iron County is looking for a company to clear sections of Oronto and Parker creeks at Saxon Harbor this spring, after the Iron County Forestry and Parks Committee approved going out for bids on the project Tuesday. The project will involve removing debris and sediment from Oronto Creek between the marina’s boat lift and Parker Creek, as well as Parker Creek from the confluence with Oronto to Lake Superior. The work is necessary to restore the flow of the creeks to their condition before th...
A winter storm watch for northern Wisconsin and the Gogebic Range is in effect from late this afternoon through Thursday. The National Weather Service predicts the storm could dump from 3 to 5 inches of snow tonight and another 8 to 12 inches on Thursday. There could be a period of freezing rain and sleet when the snow begins. Ice accumulations are possible. The band of snow was expected to produce accumulations of 4 to 7 inches for portions of east central Minnesota and areas of northwest Wisconsin, according to the NWS office in Duluth....
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — Two Wakefield residents were arrested on felony drug charges Monday, following a Gogebic Iron Area Narcotics Team investigation. Paul Robert Rooni is charged with conspiracy to deliver a Schedule 2 narcotic and maintaining a drug house, according to a GIANT press release Monday. Jessica Ann Boggetto is charged with possession with intent to deliver a Schedule 2 controlled substance, possession of a Schedule 2 controlled substance and maintaining a drug house, according to the release. Ac...
IRONWOOD - Enjoy it while it lasts. After a brutal first week of January, warmer than normal temperatures returned over the weekend to the Gogebic Range. No one was complaining about the bright Monday sunshine and upper 20s temperatures. The high of 25 degrees for the 24-hour period to 7 a.m. Monday at the Gogebic-Iron Wastewater Treatment Plant on the Montreal River was 5 degrees above the normal long-term high. The low of 12 for the period was well above the daily average of 4 degrees over...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] RAMSAY - In a turn of bad news for the new year, the Bessemer Township board passed a resolution to buy a transfer switch, costing $8,500, to operate the pumps in Anvil. The 600 amp, 480 volt, 3 phase transfer switch recently stopped working and a temporary bypass is currently running while the new switch is procured and installed. The township did receive some sugar with their spice though, as the state cut the township a check for $17,708 in...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — While Iron County District Attorney Matt Tingstad said he expects to file a criminal complaint with formal charges sometime next week, a bond hearing was held Friday for one of the suspects authorities say was involved in the death of a missing Lac du Flambeau man. Iron County Judge Patrick Madden granted the prosecution’s request and ordered bond set at $1 million for Richard F. A. Allen, 27. According to the probable cause statement in the case, Allen is suspected of first degree int...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - The eighth annual Sisu Ski Fest started 90 minutes late to accommodate cold weather and heavy wintry conditions, but for Ellen Weber, who has raced every Sisu except the year it was cancelled, the delayed start resulted in a much better race because it was not so brutally cold, like last years race. Weber said she races and works the registration desk, despite making the trek to Ironwood from the suburbs of Chicago. For Bridget Wendt, art...
MERCER, Wis. — An Iowa man was killed in a snowmobile accident in the town of Mercer Friday. The Iron County Sheriff’s Department received a report of a snowmobile accident on Trail 9 in Mercer at 1:55 p.m., according to a department news release. The 56-year-old snowmobiler was unresponsive when first responders arrived on the scene, Sheriff Tony Furyk said in the release, and was later pronounced dead. A preliminary investigation showed the man’s snowmobile left the trail and hit a tree, according to the release. While Wisconsin Depar...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Katie and Justin Brownell brought the area's first baby of 2018 in with a bang. Sweet little Makenna Rae was not scheduled to arrive until Jan. 4, but she decided to arrive two days early at Aspirus Ironwood Hospital. Makenna was born at 1:32 p.m. on Jan. 2, weighing in with a fighting weight of 6 pounds, 10 ounces. She stretched the tape at 19.5 inches. The Brownells, from Ironwood, married in 2015 and got to work right away with the...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Herb Levin, the former Daily Globe publisher and vice-president who often greeted employees with, “Top of the morning to you,” has died. Levin was living in Port Charlotte when he died on Dec. 21. Memorial services will be held in March at the National Cemetery in Sarasota, with full military honors. A native of Sault Ste. Marie, Levin headed the Daily Globe from 1977 to 1989, after Elmer Tryon retired. “I liked Herb. He was always willing to get around and meet the adverti...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - With the SISU cross country ski marathon scheduled for today, along with professional snowmobile racing at the fairgrounds track, downtown Ironwood kicked off the city events on Friday night with another First Friday celebration. The continuing first Friday of the month event downtown focused on a theme of retro ski or snowmobile wear. At the fittingly named Cold Iron Brewing, Gary Engstrom drew attention with his retro ski jumping gear,...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER - An Ironwood man pleaded guilty to drug charges in Gogebic County Circuit Court Thursday. Colton Samuel Carl Fontecchio, 23, pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine and operating while impaired as part of a plea agreement that will have two additional misdemeanors dismissed at sentencing. The agreement also calls for a county jail cap in the case, which would limit Fontecchio's sentence to less than one year. The possession charge...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD — Gogebic County Sheriff’s Department deputy Adam Zak received word on Dec. 26 that area businesses were receiving bad checks from a business account that did not exist. The checks to Forslund’s and Steiger’s hardware stores in the hundreds of dollars each were primarily used for construction equipment. Most of the equipment has been returned to the stores after it was recovered at an area motel. The Ironwood Public Safety Department and sheriff’s department obtained a vehicle descripti...
IRONWOOD — The SISU Ski Fest has announced a 90-minute delay in the start of all Saturday cross country ski events, including the 31-kilometer SISU, the 15-k Heikki Lunta and the 5-k Hauska Hiihto Fun Ski. Weather forecasts call for below zero temperatures on Saturday, with a warming trend forecast for the early morning. With the 90-minute delay, temperatures are forecast to be around 5-below at the start of the 31k at 10:20 a.m., and 5 above by the end of all races at 3:30 p.m. Winds are forecast to be mild and from the south. According to r...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The Powerball drawing was estimated to have a winning purse around 440 million at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday. A crowd moved through Stempihars in Bessemer between 4:30 and 5 p.m., where about 30 tickets were sold. Between 5 and 5:20 p.m., only 3-4 customers bought Powerball tickets, although one customer did buy three scratch tickets. Cigarettes appeared to be the hot ticket for the after five crowd. Deb Fergus, paying for fuel for the Gogebic...
