Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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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...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - The public had a chance to express its opinions on Highland Copper's effort to develop a mine in northern Gogebic County at a Michigan Department of Environmental Quality public hearing Tuesday, with most speakers expressing support for the project. The hearing, held at Gogebic Community College, was a required part of the process to obtain a MDEQ permit for the company's Copperwood Project near Lake Superior in Ironwood and Wakefield...
By JEAN NORDINE jnordine@yourdailyglobe WATERSMEET - Taking place this week is the 2018 Healing Circle Run. It is a prayer for healing for the Ojibwa Anishnaabeg communities and is similar to a relay. The run is an opportunity for people to come together to pray for healing for themselves, their families, their community, their nation, Akii, and all their relatives. There is a Ojibwa teaching on healing that says, "For a nation to heal, it must begin with the individual. As a person heals, then...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — Qualifying residents will soon be able to use their SNAP benefits to purchase food at area farmers markets. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which Gogebic Range Farmers Market Association president Darrin Kimbler said was formerly known as food stamps, is a federal program serving low-income residents. Kimbler said the Depot Park Farmers and Artisans Markets and Ironwood Township Farmers Market will be accepting SNAP benefits as soon as the machines are delivered — which he...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area Schools has a new K-12 principal after the district’s board of education voted to hire Melissa Nigh Monday. Nigh was a principal in Mellen, Wis., from 2008-13, according to Ironwood superintendent Travis Powell, before joining the faculty at Northland College in Ashland. “Her main role there was helping train pre-service teachers. So in my former capacity as an elementary principal, I worked closely with Mrs. Nigh in a couple of different capacities,” Powell told th...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — Hurley School District administrator Chris Patritto said Monday the district will receive $85,000 more in state aid than he previously projected. That means taxpayers may be getting a break on the levy for the 2018-’19 school year. It’s possible the levy could decrease from $9.35 to $8.96 per $1,000 of assessed value, he said. The school board adopted a preliminary budget of about $7.2 million that includes around $2.5 million in state aid. The budget will be down by about $241,000. Years...
By JEAN NORDINE [email protected] BESSEMER — During Monday nights Bessemer City Council meeting the council agreed that Ordinance No. 366, Medical Marijuana as a home occupation, should include the prohibiting of future small scale growing operations from operating 1000 feet of parks, playgrounds, and/or churches. However the passing of the ordinance was tabled until further information can be obtain concerning EPA standards regarding such an occupation. In other business: —The council passed a resolution to support the Ojibway Cor...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - A solemn line of people waved flags and bowed their heads as the hearse holding the casket of Ontonagon native Lowell Earl Valley was carried through Ontonagon to his final resting place at Holy Family Cemetery Saturday. Navy Fireman Second Class Valley, was killed December 7, 1941 when his ship, the Oklahoma, was torpedoed at Pearl Harbor. It took 77 years and several graves, before his remains were identified and sent home to Ontonagon. A full...
RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY - Senior citizens who can no longer bicycle will be given the opportunity to ride the trails with a new bike that was on display Saturday at Cary Park in Hurley. The bike was demonstrated at the Iron County Outdoor Recreation Enthusiasts event at the park. On an 85-degree day with only slight breezes, bicyclists went out in intervals on the non-motorized trails. It was a fundraiser for ICORE, but Enni Gregas, of the Friends of the Iron Belle Trail,...
By JEAN NORDINE [email protected] The big top tent is being set up today for the 27th annual Festival Ironwood. The 2018 Festival gets in full swing this Wednesday and continues through Saturday, concluding on Sunday with church services and the Range Art Association Master’s Art Show at the Ironwood Memorial building. Festival coordinators Will Corcoran and Keith Johnson appreciate the numerous work by volunteers behind the scenes, before, during and after the festival. It is truly a team effort to bring it all together. There are p...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - Ironwood area residents gathered Friday evening to pay tribute to a war hero they never knew. The Patriot Guard caravan escorted the remains of Pearl Harbor victim Navy Fireman Second Class Lowell Valley to Ontonagon, where he will be buried today. Around 50 people, many of them veterans, had gathered at the Michigan Tourism Information Center on U.S. 2 in Ironwood by 9 p.m., as darkness was setting in. Former Iron County Veterans Service...
By JEAN NORDINE [email protected] HURLEY - The Hurley School held a blood drive Friday in the library of the school. The school participates in a scholarship program with the Red Cross. The scholarship goes to a graduating senior and the scholarship amount depends on how many pints of blood are collected during the year. The school hosts blood drives three or four times a year, with the next one in September. Friday's was the first blood drive to count in the total for the...
