Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - Gogebic County Sheriff Pete Matonich provided the end of year results of the police work done by the Sheriff's office for the city of Bessemer. The GCSD received 722 complaints, resulting in 234 citations issued and 86 arrests made in 2017. A total of 47 accidents happened on Bessemer's roads. In reviewing the month to month comparison, some incidents stand out in 2017. -There were two incidents for methamphetamine possession and one for...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area Schools Board of Education is turning to the experts for help with its search for a new superintendent, hiring the Michigan Association of School Boards to conduct the search Monday. Its superintendent searches takes roughly 14 weeks on average, according to a proposal from the MASB given to board members, and cost between $5,000 and $7,000. Under the proposal’s scope of work, the MASB’s executive search committee will work with Ironwood’s board to develop a search...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - The YooperBeiner Snowshoe Race Saturday at the Wolverine Nordic Trails complex is designed to raise funds and promote area health, while giving people an excuse to get off the couch on a Saturday and hit the wood line. The race has three components, a kids pre-race event with its own subdivided age divisions, a 5K race or walk, and a 10K competitive race with many competitors also attached to teams for an overall time. Race...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] IRONWOOD - Father Robb Jurkovich rendered a beatific grin as he gazed around at dozens of people enjoying a Sunday spaghetti feed in the basement hall of Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church in Ironwood. "It's the most beautiful thing to see the community come together," he said. "That's what church is all about." The 43rd Annual LaRosa Spaghetti Dinner was a two-day event that began on Saturday evening and ended Sunday evening. According to Jurkovich, past...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER TOWNSHIP — A gathering of cats is called a clowder and they resist herding, but will be corralled on occasion. The Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort corralled the 2018 Midwest Cat Clowder Saturday, providing an opportunity for rabid snow machine enthusiasts to gather, fellowship and have fun in their snow crawling machines. Matt Van Tuyl, organizer and proud owner of many Tucker Sno-Cats, said the group went on a 12 mile trail ride on Thursday and then on Friday drove cross country to Copper P...
IRONWOOD — The six-year Capital Improvement Plan recently adopted by the Ironwood City Commission includes a $600,000 two-year downtown facade improvement proposal and a separate $50,000 local effort. The plan represents a wish list of projects in the city, many of which are dependent on receiving necessary grants. The federally-assisted facade improvement program would be for fiscal years 2018-’19 and 2019-’20, estimated at $300,000 for each year. The grants would be sought from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to “incentivize” pr...
A winter weather advisory was in effect for five northern Wisconsin counties until 9 p.m. today, including Iron County. The National Weather Service said 3 to 6 inches of snow might create slippery driving conditions. Gogebic County was also included in the snow watch, although the snow might be slightly less. Bayfield, Ashland, Sawyer and Price counties were also in the weather advisory area, with the cities of Washburn, Bayfield, Ashland, Hurley, Hayward and Phillips likely to be affected....
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] EWEN - There were six animals killed by wolves at five Upper Peninsula farms in 2017, according to Nancy Warren, a member of the National Wolfwatcher Coalition. She requested the information from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Department of Natural Resources through a Freedom of Information Act request. The losses in livestock were spread across the U.P. The numbers of dead animals from wolves is much lower than last year. In...
From Saxon Harbor to Duluth, it doesn’t look like a good winter for jigging for trout and salmon through the ice of Lake Superior. Lake Superior was only about 14 percent ice-covered as of Wednesday, according to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. It uses temperature-sensing satellite data to estimate ice cover. The warm temperatures and windy conditions of the past two weeks slowed formation of ice on the lake. Fishermen had been jigging for fish through the ice in the marina at Saxon Harbor, with some success, but the ice b...
WAKEFIELD — Michigan State Police inform teens of warnings signs of a potentially abusive relationships, something the MSP said as many as one in three teens deal with in some capacity. “It is important for teens, both male and female, to understand the importance of having a respectful relationship that does not include violence or other forms of abuse,” said Jerry Mazurek, community service trooper at the MSP’s Wakefield post. “No relationship is worth putting your life in danger, so it is important to recognize the early warning signs.” T...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] ONTONAGON - An Upper Peninsula man has been notified that his brother who was killed in World II at Pearl Harbor has been identified. Navy Fireman Second Class Lowell Earl Valley, from Ontonagon, is the last of three Upper Peninsula men who were killed during an attack on the USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7, 1941, to be identified. The ship was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when it was attacked by Japanese aircraft. Multiple torpedo hits caused the ship...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The state of Wisconsin will be responsible for prosecuting the five defendants accused of being involved in the death of a missing Lac du Flambeau man whose body was found in Mercer. Wayne Valliere Jr. — a member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa — was last seen Dec. 22 and reported missing Dec. 25. His body was found in the town of Mercer Jan. 1. Iron County District Attorney Matt Tingstad said Assistant Attorney General Richard Dufour was expected to handle the p...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The city of Bessemer contracts with Eagle Waste and Recycling for its trash and recycling. This week Bessemer has a substitute driver and he found some of the conditions treacherous on Monday and Tuesday as he was making his rounds. The Daily Globe reached out to Eagle Waste and Recycling Tuesday afternoon to discover what residents ought to do with their trash and recycling if they have not been picked up. Krista McCrumb said the truck...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Coaches Dennis Mackey and Mark Movrich led their basketball teams into the board meeting Tuesday, with each player stating their name, hometown, and major. School President Jim Lorenson informed the players he hears positive things from their competitors and they are doing well. Coach Mackey asked Lorenson to come to the gym for the Feb. 10 game to flip the coin, as Mackey pointed out he kept last years winning coin available in a special...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — In Iron County, a lot of financial decisions live and die at the Iron County Board of Supervisors’ Finance Committee. The county board debated changing that Tuesday as it discussed whether purchases above a set amount needed to be brought before the full county board rather than handled by the committee. “I feel that too much has been put onto the finance committee, as far as being able to make decisions without coming back to the full county board. We don’t get any recomme...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] MUSKEGON — The Michigan Department of Corrections said Monday the West Shoreline Correctional Facility in Muskegon will close on March 24. The move is being made to compensate for a “significant decline in the prison population statewide,” the DOC said. The move means the Ojibway Correctional Facility near Marenisco will remain open. It was not immediately known whether some of the West Shorelines prison guards may be transferred to the Ojibway facility in Marenisco, which has been experiencing a sho...
KIMBALL, Wis. - The Northwest Land Trust and Iron County Outdoor Recreation Enthusiasts are offering the public to chance to explore Interstate Falls and see the waterfall during winter. Local naturalist John Bates will lead the hike, which is scheduled for 1 p.m. Feb. 8. "Participants should plan to meet at the Interstate Falls parking lot by 1 p.m. People can look for the large 'Interstate Falls' sign visible from U.S. 2, just west of the U.S. 51 interchange. The parking lot is about 500 feet...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] HURLEY - Van Hill, co-coach of the Gogebic Range Robotics team, with team mentor Ron Peterson and four members of the team visited ModTruss in Fond du Lac, Wis., on Saturday. The company is owned by Ironwood native and Luther L. Wright graduate Patrick Santini. Hill said Santini is, "a real down to earth guy. We hung out at his headquarters all day." Hill said ModTruss is going to partner with the GRR and sponsor the team's pit stall. The students...
OMA, Wis. - A 45-year-old woman was dead at the scene of a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 51 near County CC in Oma Sunday morning. A 32-year-old man involved in the crash was taken to Aspirus Ironwood Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. According to the Iron County Sheriff's Department, a car driven the 45-year-old woman crossed the center line on U.S. 51 at 2:56 a.m. Sunday and was hit by the 32-year-old man's vehicle. The woman was wearing her seat belt at the time of the crash, according...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] GILE, Wis. - A sunny, but windy Saturday provided excellent conditions for pursuing walleyes on the Gile Flowage during the third annual Annie's Bar tournament. Tournament host Annie Van Epern said at noon that 106 people had registered for the tourney. No whoppers had been caught yet, but some decent-sized walleyes and northern pike were being iced in 30-degree weather. Competitors had until 5 p.m. to register fish and the walleye bite usually doesn't...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] The civilian labor force and total employment rose but so did unemployment in Gogebic County in the last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Market Information. Unemployment in Gogebic County from November to December rose from 5.3 percent to 6.2 percent during that time. The good news was the labor force available for work rose by 125, from 6,175 to 6,300 in the past two months. Total employment in same time frame, also rose by 50 to 5,900. One year ago the unemployment rate was 5.4 percent. The rise in...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has been working snowmobile patrols that began with the New Year's weekend, when the Ironwood area experienced two fatalities. MDNR Sgt. Grant Emery, formerly of Bessemer, worked snowmobile activity in the Porcupine Mountains State Park, according to a Dec. 31-Jan. 13 report from the DNR. Trail conditions were “near perfect” because of a large amount of snowfall and snowmobilers flocked to the park. Emery took enforcement action for failure to register sno...
