Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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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...
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...
