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Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By JEAN NORDINE [email protected] BRUCE CROSSING - A number of new road signs were installed along U.S. 45 south of Bruce Crossing Thursday. Although the old signs are still readable, MDOT says that while a sign may be very visible during the day, they lose their ability over time to reflect light back to drivers' eyes, making them less visible when the information they contain is most crucial. According to State Transportation Director Kirk T. Steudie, "Time, weather, and other...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] Voters in four townships in Gogebic County will be asked on Tuesday, Aug. 7, to renew millages to fund township operations. The Aug. 7 election is a primary election in Michigan for local, state and federal offices, but there are also a number of ballot proposals, including millage renewals for “general township operating purposes” in Erwin Township, Marenisco Township, Wakefield Township and Watersmeet Township. Wakefield Township is asking to renew its 3 mills for four years. One mill tra...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] The 16-day Iron County Heritage Festival begins this weekend - Friday actually - with a passel of activities. The festival is an annual effort by the Iron County Development Zone to market events across the county, said director Kelly Klein. "The whole idea is to be an umbrella for a lot of different things going on and to show people there are things to do," said Klein. "It goes across the county and seems to work really well." The events are popul...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — Those attending Festival Ironwood Saturday may have seen volunteers manning a booth on behalf of Ironwood Area Schools, including superintendent Travis Powell who was there to meet residents and gather feedback on the district. “It was wonderful, I got to meet a lot of folks from the community — a lot of parents, a lot of … alumni — and I heard a lot of great things about Ironwood Area Schools,” Powell said, Saturday. “It was very affirming; knowing there is a lot of strength, (th...
By JEAN NORDINE [email protected] MARENISCO - When Makayla Mahler, 2017 graduate of Wakefield/Marenisco high school, began powerlifting she "went from a 120 pound college freshman to a 160 pound beast, all muscle!" according to her grandfather Bruce Mahler. "Her transformation has been nothing but spectacular. She has put on 40 pounds of well defined muscle." Mahler has been diligently training since the fall of 2017 to complete in the female middleweight class at the "Twin Ports RAW...
By JEAN NORDINE [email protected] IRONWOOD - A disc golf course has recently opened at Norrie Park in Ironwood. The city's parks and recreation committee had approved the design for the disc course earlier this month and the donated baskets from Tom Winsce were delivered this past week. City volunteers did the installation and golfers have been utilizing the nine-basket course for the past few days. In disc golf - also called Frisbee Golf or sometimes Frolf - players tee off from a...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — Two additional blocks will be getting an infrastructure upgrade, after the Ironwood City Commission approved expanding the city’s Phase 4 water and sewer project Monday. The change adds Francis Street, between Lowell and Lawrence streets; and Lawrence Street, between Francis Street and Coolidge Avenue, to the project. “As noted at the last meeting, the main part of the project is wrapping up. There’s some final costs that are being calculated and final work that is getting done,” City Ma...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — An Ironwood Township man is facing several felonies after he allegedly hit a Gogebic County Sheriff’s Department deputy this weekend at the scene of an accident. Ryan Gregory Alessandroni, 35, was arraigned on felony charges of fleeing a police officer-4th degree, assaulting an officer and failing to use due care when passing a stationary emergency vehicle causing injury. He is also charged with operating while intoxicated, a misdemeanor. Gogebic County Prosecutor Nick Jacobs said Joshua...
By JEAN NORDINE [email protected] IRONWOOD - Michigan State Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba, met with 25 representatives from local municipalities and area businesses at Gogebic Community College Monday evening to discuss what can be done to sway the Department of Corrections from closing the Ojibway Correctional Facility in Marenisco. Thirty prisons remain open in the state after the closure of the West Shoreline Correctional Facility in Muskegon earlier this year, but there is a...
By JEAN NORDINE [email protected] BESSEMER - A newly installed "Book Trail" along the Iron Belle Trail allows people to enjoy a book while taking a stroll along the trail. There are 16 stops on the trail with a different pages from a book displayed. Other books will be featured throughout the summer with "Hold This" the initial one. "Hold This" is a children's book written by Carloyn Cory Scoppettone and illustrated by Priscilla Alpaugh. The book is about a little girl named Mika who...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — Building off Ironwood’s “Find Your North” slogan and new logo, the city commission approved a new marketing plan for the city Monday. Community Development Director Tom Bergman said a variety of projects were identified several years ago during the city’s comprehensive planning process — including the creation of a marketing plan. Monday’s plan builds off a one-year plan Bergman said was developed roughly two years ago. “The EDC took this as one of their main projects about a year ago, a...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - The dance floor under the big top was full Saturday night as Xtra played a variety of classic rock hits to close out Festival Ironwood's Saturday activities. The local band was joined by Fino Roverato - an Ironwood native who went on to perform with Frankie Valli, Jay and the Americans, the Smothers Brothers, Three Dogs Night and other famous acts. Roverato delighted the hometown crowd with his guitar solos in his first visit back to the...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - For the 63rd time, some of the area's best artists put their talents on display as part of the Range Art Association's annual art show. "We had comments today from people who visited and said they had no idea there were such good artists in our area," association treasurer Gerry Traczyk said. "And this is just a small sampling of the artists in the area." Traczyk said she was pleased with this year's show, which was open Friday through...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — An Ironwood man is facing charges after allegedly hitting a Gogebic County Sheriff’s Department deputy with his car while trying to drive through the scene of an earlier accident. The deputy — whose name hasn’t been released by the department — was directing traffic at approximately 9:30 p.m. Saturday at the scene of an accident on Vanderhagen Road, near Sunset Road in Ironwood Township. The Ironwood man, 35, was allegedly attempting to drive around the wrecker at the scene, according to the GCSD, when he struck the deputy i...
HURLEY — A $250,000 cash bond was set Thursday in Iron County Court for a Superior man who is charged in a fatal March 27 accident on U.S. 2 in Saxon. Jesse Gasper, 34, faces five charges in the early morning logging truck-car accident on U.S. 2 that claimed the life of former Ironwood resident Amanda Schiiller, 31. She was a passenger in the car driven by Gasper, who was injured in the crash. Iron County District Attorney Matthew Tingstad requested the high bond, which was approved by Iron County Judge Patrick Madden. Gasper was arrested in N...
IRONWOOD - While the rain somewhat impacted turnout, Festival Ironwood continued largely as planned Friday. "Crowds are down a little bit, but again, we made some adjustments," Festival Ironwood co-chair Keith Johnson told the Daily Globe. "We put some stuff - kids activities - under the big top, moved that slide in ... and the obstacle course and it worked out well. Despite the weather, the vendors were very pleased with the people." Other than the bounce house, petting zoo and bike parade,...
MADISON, Wis. — As expected, Gov. Scott Walker is asking the federal government to help parts of the state recover from the mid-June rainstorms that caused widespread flooding in several counties, including Iron County. Walker sent a letter to President Donald Trump Friday asking for a federal disaster declaration for Ashland, Bayfield, Iron, Burnett, Clark and Douglas counties. “Federal damage assessments showed more than $13.1 million in damage to public infrastructure in northwestern Wisconsin. This is an area that is still recovering fro...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — For the first time in over a decade, the Ironwood Area Schools has a school nurse on staff, after the district’s board of education approved hiring Dawn Vernetti at Monday’s meeting. “It’s really important to have a school nurse because there are children with specific medical needs. When children are at school, we’re responsible for them. We need to know if there are specific things we need to monitor, or whether they have allergies or certain conditions like diabetes that needs to be m...
By JEAN NORDINE [email protected] IRONWOOD - As part of the 2018 Festival Ironwood, Thursday night the Downtown Art Place held a reception and talk for "Promises," a Paul Castagna retrospective, honoring the late local artist. Wine and hors d'oeuvres were served as the public enjoyed learning more about the artist, while viewing 40 of his pieces. Born in 1946 in Ashland, Wis., to second generation Italian and Corsican parents, Castagna started painting as a teenager. After finishing...
HURLEY — An increase in school lunch prices was approved Monday by the Hurley School Board for the 2018-’19 school year. The increases are from 10 to 25 cents in breakfast and lunch prices. The new price set-up will be: Pre-kindergarten breakfast: $1.35; grade 6-12 breakfast: $1.55; adult breakfast: $2.25; pre-K-grade 5 lunch: $2.50; grade 6-12 lunch: $2.75 and adult lunch: $4. School board members were told a policy is being implemented in which students whose parents owe money to the district’s food service account are not offered the ala c...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - Those enjoying Festival Ironwood activities over the next several days may notice a new feature in Depot Park, as the city workers installed a Little Free Library in front of the Old Depot Building that houses the Ironwood Chamber of Commerce and Ironwood Historical Society Monday. The little library, a replica of the depot building behind it, uses the "take a penny, leave a penny" concept honor system to spread literacy in communities. U...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] MELLEN, Wis. - More than six weeks after a Bergland woman was reported missing, her family is still seeking information as to what happened to her. Jody Lynn Newberry, 54, went missing at a music festival near Mellen, Wis., on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. Her family continues to use Facebook, hundreds of posters and other media outlets to try to stir up some tips that may be helpful in solving her May 26 disappearance, but has been unsuccessful....
By JEAN NORDINE [email protected] IRONWOOD — Connie Hicks and Kim Zekovich, representing Gogebic Community College, were on hand to answer questions for those who took part in the Schneider Trucking job fair held at Michigan Works Wednesday. The college has held Commercial Drivers License classes for the past two years and will begin their third class this fall semester with Hicks as the lead instructor. One of the trucks they use for instructing is parked in the old K-Mart lot across from Cloverland Cinema. The semi sports an a...
