Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD - Even though it wasn't the warm, sunny day organizers hoped for; a decent crowd gathered in the wet weather Sunday to participate in the ninth annual Go Ride R Range Ride bike ride. "We had 55 (riders). Some started the ride, some bailed out, some came to eat," organizer Jim Mildren joked. "But it was 55 riders on a pretty wet day." The ride started at Ironwood's Depot Park, using Aurora and Hurley's Silver Street to get the non-motorized trailhead at the Montreal River in Hurley...
IRON BELT, Wis. — Bikers besieged Belt City for a good cause Saturday around noon. The normally quiet Iron County town came alive for a few hours when about 130 motorcycles and many cars from the Cable area stopped at Joany’s Sidekicks during a charity ride for the St. Jude Hospital’s fight against childhood cancer and other causes. On a cool morning, the caravan aimed to ride 160 miles for the day. So far, there had been only one mishap, with a motorcycle hitting the ditch. Dan Hinman, of Cable, leader of the pack, said it’s the sixth year of...
IRONWOOD - Presentation of a lifesaving award to Ironwood Public Safety Department Fire Marshal Brandon Snyder concluded a Friday ceremony honoring first responders of the Feb. 21 fatal fire at 102-104 Aurora St. Snyder was honored for personally pulling two people to safety out of second and third story windows in apartments of the burning building. Killed in the fire were Mark Arnold Verrette, 57; Patrick James Somerville, 51, and Levi Dean Watkins, 27. In addition to firefighters and IPSD...
IRONWOOD — Rather than a field trip to a farm, the farm came to Ironwood’s Luther L. Wright K-12 School Friday, as Gogebic County’s Michigan State University-Extension office and 4-H program brought a menagerie of farm animals for students to interact with. The district’s elementary school students had a chance to feed, pet and brush the animals — including calves, sheep, chickens, rabbits and goats. Along with giving students a chance to see types of animals 4-H participants raise, 4-H progr...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - When it comes to the weather, statistics have a way of averaging out. So while Ironwood had almost no rain for the first three weeks of May, downpours on Wednesday sent the monthly rainfall total nearly identical to the 117-year average. A total of 1.41 inches of rain fell for the 24-hour period to 7 a.m. Thursday at the Gogebic-Iron Wastewater Treatment Plant weather station on the Montreal River, off Cloverland Drive. Later Thursday, scatte...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors recognized the extra hours the county’s Department of Human Services staff has been putting in the past year, voting 9-3 Tuesday to compensate three employees for additional time. The board approved paying Human Services Director Cally Kilger, Financial Manager Diane Schmidtke and Program Manager Becky Rein a total of $75,649 for the roughly 1,863 hours beyond normal work hours the three worked in 2017. Board members Ken Saari, Scott Erickson and Jay Ai...
RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] MELLEN, Wis. — The Ashland County Sheriff’s Department is continuing to lead a search for a missing Bergland woman. On Memorial Day around 4:30 p.m., the Ashland County Communications Center received a report 54-year-old Jody Lynn Newberry had traveled from her home in Bergland to Mellen to attend the Mellen Jam music festival. Newberry’s sister was concerned because the festival had ended and she had not returned home and didn’t contact the family. Newberry traveled to the festival with a man, and the tw...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — Not guilty pleas were entered Wednesday afternoon in Iron County Court for five men who are charged with murdering a Lac du Flambeau, Wis., tribal member in Mercer on Dec. 22. They are charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree intentional homicide and being a party to hiding a corpse in the shooting death of Wayne M. Valliere Jr. James Lussier, 19, of Woodruff; Joseph D. Lussier, 26, of Lac du Flambeau; Richard F.A. Allen, 27, of Lac du Flambeau, and Evan T. Oungst, 27, of Arbor Vitae, al...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield city council learned Tuesday that it is one of two communities chosen for a pilot geographical information system by the Western Upper Peninsula Planning and Development Region. City manager Richard Brackney recently learned the good news from Brad Barnett, who works for WUPPDR’s Houghton office. Brackney had applied for a grant with WUPPDR, whose website describes it as “the regional clearinghouse for federally and state-funded programs.” He said the GIS system will map the city...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission will host an awards and recognition ceremony Friday to honor first responders who assisted during and after the fire in downtown Ironwood on Feb. 21. The event will be at 4:30 p.m. outdoors at the intersection of Aurora and Lowell Streets. In case of inclement weather, it will be moved to the Memorial Building at 213 S. Marquette St. There will be limited seating available for seniors and disabled individuals. Attendees are asked to bring lawn chairs, if p...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — With the company already onsite working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Iron County Board of Supervisors awarded the contract for its share of the Saxon Harbor marina’s dredging to Roen Salvage Tuesday. The company — based in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. — was awarded the $2,779,533 contract to dredge approximately 21,100 cubic yards of sediment deposited in the portion of the marina the county is responsible for during the July 2016 storm that destroyed the harbor. Along with the dredgin...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — A $20,000 cash bond was modified to a signature bond Tuesday in Iron County Court for a Mt. Horeb man who faces four felony drug counts in relation to an Island Lake area drug bust last month. Eric Brady, 37, formerly of Madison, will have an initial appearance on June 7 at 1:45 p.m. Brady’s attorney, Joseph Hoffman, appeared by speaker phone Tuesday morning. Signature bond conditions include no alcohol, no taverns, no liquor stores and no controlled substances. Iron County District Att...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - A Tuesday public hearing on electric rates resulted in the Wakefield city council voting to retain current rates. Council member Pat Mann read a short statement concluding, "I feel I do not have sufficient information to make a recommendation at this time." "We just got information this weekend," said mayor pro tempore Amy Tarro, who added she wished they'd received it well in advance of the hearing. Council member Jim Anderson described the...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - A day after celebrating the accomplishments of its graduates, Ironwood gathered Monday to honor and remember those who gave their lives serving their country. While for some Memorial Day has become an extra day off work and excuse to grill or barbecue, Ironwood Mayor Annette Burchell reminded those attending the ceremony of the purpose of the holiday. "Memorial Day isn't meant to be a national holiday of celebration. Memorial Day is a...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY - The 46 seniors who graduated from Hurley High School Saturday will reap more than $100,000 in scholarships, school counselor Sarah Eder said. On a 93-degree cloudless day in Kimball, the class celebrated its many accomplishments, as singled out by advisor Shannon Peterson in a poem. Of all of the many accomplishments achieved by the graduating class, the one that drew the loudest ovation was Arthur Johnson's last-second desperation half-court...
By Jan Tucker [email protected] EWEN — Even as the 2017-18 school year is winding down, the Ewen-Trout Creek board is already planning for the next school year. Student scheduling and staffing took front and center at the recent ETC board meeting. Superintendent Alan Tulppo reported that student scheduling for the next year is complete for grades 6-12 and the master schedule is being developed. Tulppo noted there is a possibility of not offering physics for the 2018-19 year due to low student requests for the course, but if the class is n...
BESSEMER - The A.D. Johnston High School class of 2018 said farewell to high school and hello to the next step in their lives on Friday evening in Bessemer. Megan Peterson, in her senior class farewell speech to her fellow graduates, closed with familiar words the Bessemer faithful, "Always remember, 'Go Speedboys and Go Speedgirls." TJ Mazurek, Serenity Plochocki and Alejandro Martinez ushered in the evening's presentation with the Pledge of Allegiance. All three, according to Dave Wineburner,...
WAKEFIELD - Twenty students graduated from the Wakefield-Marenisco High School Friday night, and dreams were the theme of the related ceremony in the school gym. The students' class motto was "Chase your dreams, but always know the road that'll lead you home again," a line by country music star Tim McGraw. While offering her welcome to the full house, superintendent Catherine Shamion suggested to graduates, "Take the first step toward your dreams tonight." She added, however, that "we'll be...
ONTONAGON — An overnight search for an Ontonagon County man ended successfully Friday afternoon when Carl Thomas Kettunen, of Trout Creek, was found alive with his off-road-vehicle on top of him. Search teams from several entities were called to Ontonagon County in the afternoon, after efforts began Thursday night to locate the 66-year-old man. The last report of Kettunen’s whereabouts had been around 6 p.m. EDT Thursday when, after finishing his dinner, caregivers heard him leave his home at 9183 M-28 on his orange Honda Rancher off-road veh...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — While a last-minute defense motion delayed her fate for a little over a week, former Ironwood Township Treasurer Jyl Renee Olson-DeRosso left Gogebic County Circuit Court in handcuffs Thursday to begin her sentence. Judge Michael Pope sentenced Olson-DeRosso, 48, to 38 months in prison for the most serious charge she faced — embezzlement by a public official. She was also sentenced on the other nine felony counts she faced — five counts of forgery, refusing to turn over records to the s...
IRONWOOD - April showers bring May flowers, and May flowers bring Kiwanis pancakes? Well, maybe not, but the Ironwood Kiwanis Club has been hosting a Pancake Day fundraiser in May since at least the early 1950s, according to member Sue Murphy. "No one around remembers before that," she said with a smile while sitting at a table selling tickets in the front hall of the Elk & Hound Thursday afternoon. "The Ironwood club dates back to 1925." The event - planned for 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. - was one of...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The Wakefield City Council Thursday held its final work session regarding the 2018-'19 fiscal year budget. After the session, city manager Richard Brackney said budget numbers will not be firm until treasurer Sherry Ravelli fine-tunes department totals, based on final suggestions by council members. A public hearing is set for June 11 at 5:30 p.m., after which the council will vote on the budget. Included in the pending budget so far are as...
