Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon-White Pine Rotary has joined other Rotary Clubs throughout the world in a project to plant trees in their communities. The project, to plant the same number of trees as there are members in each club, was a request to the thousands of clubs in the world by the Rotary International president. Following a lengthy discussion and comparing quotes from nurseries, the local club voted Wednesday to order 10 trees. The trees — maples and crab apples — will be planted at the Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital and at the Onton...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — A defendant in the recent Gogebic-Iron Area Narcotics Enforcement Team drug raid in the Island Lake area waived his right to a preliminary examination Thursday in Iron County Court. An arraignment date for Eric Brady, 37, of Madison, will be set by Iron County Judge Patrick Madden. Bond was continued at $20,000 for Brady, who was arrested in the town of Knight along with Kenneth Lorenz, 38, of Waterford, Wis., and Bianca Pulaski, 21, of Ironwood Township, in late April. The arrests were the r...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] Wisconsin’s wolf population remains nearly three times higher than the Department of Natural Resources’ goal. The DNR said Tuesday data suggests the wolf population may have begun to stabilize, however. Data collected by more than 100 volunteer trackers and DNR staff members during the 2017-18 winter reveal a minimum count of 844 to 925 wolves, a 2.2 percent decrease from the previous count. The number of packs increased from 232 to 238, however. Scott Walter, WDNR large carnivore ecologist, said the...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — An Ironwood man pleaded guilty to felony drug charges in two cases in Gogebic County Circuit Court Tuesday. Ira Asher Wilson-Johnson pleaded guilty to possession with intent to deliver marijuana in one case and possession with intent to deliver cocaine in a second case at Tuesday’s hearing. The marijuana charges carries a potential maximum sentence of four years in prison, while the cocaine charge carries a potential maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The pleas came as part of an...
HURLEY — A Milwaukee man who faces felony charges in connection with an alleged sexual assault last summer at a summer camp waived a preliminary hearing and had his bond conditions modified Tuesday in Iron County Court. Daniel Aguirre, 19, is charged with first-degree child sexual assault-contact with a child under 13 and exposing a child to harmful material. On Tuesday, a $50,000 signature and $500 cash bond was amended to with additional condition of no contact with children under 18, except at school or work or in the presence of another a...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] LANSING — Gogebic and Ontonagon counties will receive a combined $310,300 for several projects as part of over $49 million in additional Michigan Department of Natural Resources Trust Fund grants Gov. Rick Snyder approved Monday. The $310,300 will help fund one project in Gogebic County and two more in Ontonagon County. The projects’ total costs are estimated at $457,000. The remainder of the cost for the projects comes from local matching funds, according to a Senate Fiscal Agency analysis of the...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] IRONWOOD - It isn't unusual to see travel trailers and recreational vehicles in the parking lot of Ironwood's Walmart. One of them, however, stood out from the crowd on Monday morning. It was a tiny teardrop trailer with the back flipped up to reveal an efficient cruising kitchen, complete with a pull-out stove and ice chest. Eating an early lunch there, as though standing by a street vendor, were Petro Ianitskyi and Hoai Linh Chu. Ianitskyi said it was...
MELLEN, Wis. — Relatives of a Bergland woman who has been missing for more than a week are urging anyone with information about her disappearance to contact authorities. Jody Lynn Newberry, 54, has been missing since the Ashland County Sheriff’s Department received a call at 4:30 p.m. on May 29 from her sister. Newberry had traveled from Bergland to Mellen on the evening of Thursday, May 24, to attend the Mellen Jam music festival in a wooded area on private property. Mellen Jam is held on Memorial Day weekend on forested private property on...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] IRONWOOD - More than 200 Luther L. Wright elementary school children attended a high-energy presentation on creative writing Monday morning. Brainstormers - a traveling acting troupe pitching writing skills and based in downstate Royal Oak - returned for Parts 2 and 3 of an ongoing writers workshop aimed at grades 2 through 6 that began in May. The three-member troupe set up a curtain at one end of the gym and set out to perform - with some help...
GILE, Wis. — A new fee to use the Gile Flowage boat landing at the park didn’t stop fishermen from heading out on the water Monday. The daily fee costs $5 and the annual fee is $25, both on the honor system, according to a poster at the park in Gile. Around a dozen boat trailers were parked at the park Monday morning on a sunny, ideal day for spring fishing, after a weekend of cold, wet weather. One boater about to head out onto the flowage approached by a reporter was unaware of the new fee, which was posted on the side of the information kio...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — While the city hasn’t settled on an overarching strategy for repairing its roads, Bessemer should soon be getting some valuable information to make the decision after the city council voted Monday to seek prices for options to repair a section of Mine Street. “It’s really not acceptable the way it is right now. So if we could do it for $7,000, would it be something we’d consider? That was the point of asking for prices, to see what the contractor says — if the contractor has any cool op...
UPSON, Wis. - A group of hikers had a chance to explore one of the newer sections of trail in Iron County this weekend as the Heritage Chapter of the North Country Trail Association and Iron County Outdoor Recreation Enthusiasts led a hike in Upson to celebrate Saturday as National Trails Day. The hike started at Casey Sag Road and went roughly 1.5 miles to a vista overlooking Upson Lake before returning to the road. The section of trail was built last fall with the help of an AmeriCorps...
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...
