Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD - Enjoy it while it lasts. After a brutal first week of January, warmer than normal temperatures returned over the weekend to the Gogebic Range. No one was complaining about the bright Monday sunshine and upper 20s temperatures. The high of 25 degrees for the 24-hour period to 7 a.m. Monday at the Gogebic-Iron Wastewater Treatment Plant on the Montreal River was 5 degrees above the normal long-term high. The low of 12 for the period was well above the daily average of 4 degrees over...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] RAMSAY - In a turn of bad news for the new year, the Bessemer Township board passed a resolution to buy a transfer switch, costing $8,500, to operate the pumps in Anvil. The 600 amp, 480 volt, 3 phase transfer switch recently stopped working and a temporary bypass is currently running while the new switch is procured and installed. The township did receive some sugar with their spice though, as the state cut the township a check for $17,708 in...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — While Iron County District Attorney Matt Tingstad said he expects to file a criminal complaint with formal charges sometime next week, a bond hearing was held Friday for one of the suspects authorities say was involved in the death of a missing Lac du Flambeau man. Iron County Judge Patrick Madden granted the prosecution’s request and ordered bond set at $1 million for Richard F. A. Allen, 27. According to the probable cause statement in the case, Allen is suspected of first degree int...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - The eighth annual Sisu Ski Fest started 90 minutes late to accommodate cold weather and heavy wintry conditions, but for Ellen Weber, who has raced every Sisu except the year it was cancelled, the delayed start resulted in a much better race because it was not so brutally cold, like last years race. Weber said she races and works the registration desk, despite making the trek to Ironwood from the suburbs of Chicago. For Bridget Wendt, art...
MERCER, Wis. — An Iowa man was killed in a snowmobile accident in the town of Mercer Friday. The Iron County Sheriff’s Department received a report of a snowmobile accident on Trail 9 in Mercer at 1:55 p.m., according to a department news release. The 56-year-old snowmobiler was unresponsive when first responders arrived on the scene, Sheriff Tony Furyk said in the release, and was later pronounced dead. A preliminary investigation showed the man’s snowmobile left the trail and hit a tree, according to the release. While Wisconsin Depar...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Katie and Justin Brownell brought the area's first baby of 2018 in with a bang. Sweet little Makenna Rae was not scheduled to arrive until Jan. 4, but she decided to arrive two days early at Aspirus Ironwood Hospital. Makenna was born at 1:32 p.m. on Jan. 2, weighing in with a fighting weight of 6 pounds, 10 ounces. She stretched the tape at 19.5 inches. The Brownells, from Ironwood, married in 2015 and got to work right away with the...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Herb Levin, the former Daily Globe publisher and vice-president who often greeted employees with, “Top of the morning to you,” has died. Levin was living in Port Charlotte when he died on Dec. 21. Memorial services will be held in March at the National Cemetery in Sarasota, with full military honors. A native of Sault Ste. Marie, Levin headed the Daily Globe from 1977 to 1989, after Elmer Tryon retired. “I liked Herb. He was always willing to get around and meet the adverti...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - With the SISU cross country ski marathon scheduled for today, along with professional snowmobile racing at the fairgrounds track, downtown Ironwood kicked off the city events on Friday night with another First Friday celebration. The continuing first Friday of the month event downtown focused on a theme of retro ski or snowmobile wear. At the fittingly named Cold Iron Brewing, Gary Engstrom drew attention with his retro ski jumping gear,...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER - An Ironwood man pleaded guilty to drug charges in Gogebic County Circuit Court Thursday. Colton Samuel Carl Fontecchio, 23, pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine and operating while impaired as part of a plea agreement that will have two additional misdemeanors dismissed at sentencing. The agreement also calls for a county jail cap in the case, which would limit Fontecchio's sentence to less than one year. The possession charge...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD — Gogebic County Sheriff’s Department deputy Adam Zak received word on Dec. 26 that area businesses were receiving bad checks from a business account that did not exist. The checks to Forslund’s and Steiger’s hardware stores in the hundreds of dollars each were primarily used for construction equipment. Most of the equipment has been returned to the stores after it was recovered at an area motel. The Ironwood Public Safety Department and sheriff’s department obtained a vehicle descripti...
IRONWOOD — The SISU Ski Fest has announced a 90-minute delay in the start of all Saturday cross country ski events, including the 31-kilometer SISU, the 15-k Heikki Lunta and the 5-k Hauska Hiihto Fun Ski. Weather forecasts call for below zero temperatures on Saturday, with a warming trend forecast for the early morning. With the 90-minute delay, temperatures are forecast to be around 5-below at the start of the 31k at 10:20 a.m., and 5 above by the end of all races at 3:30 p.m. Winds are forecast to be mild and from the south. According to r...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The Powerball drawing was estimated to have a winning purse around 440 million at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday. A crowd moved through Stempihars in Bessemer between 4:30 and 5 p.m., where about 30 tickets were sold. Between 5 and 5:20 p.m., only 3-4 customers bought Powerball tickets, although one customer did buy three scratch tickets. Cigarettes appeared to be the hot ticket for the after five crowd. Deb Fergus, paying for fuel for the Gogebic...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] The Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance notes in a new report the state’s relatively high property taxes are mostly because there are so many fingers in the pie. Wisconsin has more units of government dipping into the property tax pie than many other states. Wisconsin’s property tax bills finance K-12 schools, municipalities, counties and technical colleges. A state tax was also on the previous tax bill, but that small fee has been eliminated this year. It was only around $6 on a total tax bill of $2,...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — While a plea agreement may still be reached, a trial date has been set in the case against former Ironwood Township treasurer Jyl Olson-DeRosso. Unless a deal happens; jury selection is scheduled to take place April 30, with the trial beginning May 1. Olson-DeRosso is facing ten felonies — five counts of forgery, one count of embezzlement by a public official, refusing to turn over records to a successor, removal and destruction of public records, using public money for her own use and...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - While the average temperature in Ironwood in 2017 was nearly identical to the 117-year norm, it was anything but a typical year weather-wise. The average reading of 40.3 degrees was slightly above the long-term norm of 40.1, according to statistics for Ironwood kept by the National Weather Service office in Marquette. The record high reading was 46.4 degrees in 1938, according to the NWS. Wacky weather included an April 26-27 ice storm that c...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — Even though it can’t be the site of Saxon Harbor’s campground, Iron County has completed the acquisition of a piece of land directly east of the harbor. The county first began the process of acquiring the 115-acre parcel as part of the larger rebuilding of Saxon Harbor after it was destroyed in the July 11, 2016 storm. The property had been intended to serve as the location for the harbor’s campground after the county was prevented from rebuilding on the old campground site due to a state...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — The city of Bessemer returned from the holiday break and got right back to business with its first city council meeting of the new year. Mayor Adam Zak read a correspondence from Senator Tom Casperson saying the Ojibway prison in Marinesco is not on the chopping block in the event a prison is closed in Michigan. The council agreed this was good news, but also counter to much of the rumors and they would stay cautiously optimistic. The city received a request for a letter of support r...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Even though the cold temperatures kept most people from staying outside too long, it failed to dampen the mood at Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort Sunday as the ski hill hosted its annual New Year's Eve party. The party kicked off with the hill's ski patrol holding a torch-lit parade down one of the runs, followed by a fireworks display. Powderhorn General Manager Bruce Noren said the parade is a long-standing part of New Year's, with Powderhorn possibly being the first local...
RAMSAY — A snowmobiler was killed crossing U.S. 2 Saturday afternoon, making it the county’s second snowmobile death in 26 hours. The man — whose name is being withheld pending the Gogebic County Sheriff’s Department’s notification of the family — was identified as a 52-year-old Wisconsin resident. The department’s initial investigation indicated he was attempting to cross U.S. 2 at the intersection with Ramsay Road shortly before 1 p.m. when he was hit by an eastbound pickup truck, according to a department press release. While the investiga...
Editor’s note: The Daily Globe is counting down the top five local stories of 2017. Ironwood Township’s financial irregularities and the criminal charges against former township treasurer Jyl Olson-DeRosso was selected as the biggest story of the year. IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP – News broke in May that former Ironwood Township Treasurer Jyl Olson-DeRosso was facing felony charges for allegedly embezzling money while in office. Gogebic County Prosecutor Nick Jacobs initially charged Olson-DeRosso with nine felonies — five counts of forgery, one count o...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Superior Snowshoe Walking group has released its 2018 schedule. It is the seventh year for the snowshoe walks and while Sam Davey said they used to have 100-plus come out for each walk, they now average somewhere between 40 to 100, however the weather is a mitigating factor in attendance, as real cold nights tend to have limited participation. Davey said the walks are community events, open to the public, and if someone would like to try, but does not have snowshoes, he or she can c...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] Now comes the real nasty stuff. After a week of sub-zero temperatures across the Gogebic Range, a winter weather advisory was in effect for Iron County, Wis., and the Ironwood area through Sunday. The National Weather Service also said a wind-chill advisory was in effect through Monday morning. Lake-effect snow was expected, perhaps as much as a foot in the Ironwood area. While the winds this week have been mostly out of the south, they could blow from the north and that will create even colder...
