Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and Iron County is holding a variety of events throughout the month to raise awareness about how to recognize signs of possible abuse. Members of the Iron County Sheriff's Department were in Mercer Thursday, serving root beer floats to the students. Teresa Way, a children's social worker with the Iron County Human Services Department, said the event was a way for the students to meet the members of...
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has confirmed a wild deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease in Oneida County, in the Crescent Township. As required by law, the DNR said finding will renew Oneida County's existing baiting and feeding ban for another three years. Additionally, the positive test will renew the two-year baiting and feeding ban in Langlade County. The CWD-positive one-year-old doe was harvested on a disease surveillance permit issued within a 10-mile radius of the recent Lincoln County positiv...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Highway Committee awarded the contract for repairing the bridge over Oronto Creek at Saxon Harbor Monday, a key step in the rebuilding of the harbor after it was destroyed in a July 2016 storm. Merrill Gravel and Construction was the lowest of seven bidders vying for the contract, according to Iron County Highway Commissioner Mike Swartz. While it was the lowest submitted, Swartz said the company’s $1,440,712 bid was still above the initial expected cost of the pro...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Like a phoenix rising from the ashes of the downtown Ironwood fire that changed lives and the cityscape of Ironwood forever, Chelsi's Corner has returned, just three doors down from its previous location on Aurora Street. Mark Schwanz and Lynn Niemi, owners of Chelsi's Corner, lost all their stock in the fire, but have since moved in to the former Book World building. The tragic fire took three lives. Schwanz said he called his agent at...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - A Through the Lens art exhibit, on display in the Historic Ironwood Theatre entrance, opens today. Local scenery, captured by area photographers, is hung on the walls with care. Images strike out from the walls of a senior couple basking in their glory together as they look out a window stand in contrast to a young Jennifer Lawrence look-alike holding a shotgun, titled, "Shotgun Wedding." Other local scenes like the Keystone Bridge in...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — While it may not seem like it, warmer weather will be here soon and activity will pick up on the local segment of the Iron Belle Trail. In preparation of the upcoming season, the Friends of the Iron Belle Trail will be holding a fundraising dinner Saturday. The event will run from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Elk and Hound Restaurant. The menu will feature a mix of barbecue, potato salad, baked beans, chips and dessert; according to Sam Davey, one of the fundraiser’s organizers. “We’re as...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY - Negotiations are continuing in an effort to keep Beacon Ambulance in business. The Hurley City Council on Tuesday discussed the status of the talks with Iron County Emergency Management Director Stacy Ofstad, who said Beacon is decreasing its proposed costs to area communities in seeking a new contract. At a city council meeting last week, Hurley Mayor Joe Pinardi said Beacon was requesting an increase in its annual contract with Hurley from...
ONTONAGON — Repairs on the M-64 bridge over the Ontonagon River will begin Monday. The Michigan Department of Transportation said the estimated completion date is Sept. 14. The $1.2 million MDOT project will include epoxy overlay, deck patching, joint replacement, substructure repair and approach reconstruction work. One alternating lane of traffic will be open, with use of temporary traffic signals. An 11-foot width restriction will be in effect in the work zone. MDOT said the project will restore the pavement condition on the bridge and a...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - Fourteen members of the Iron County Board of Supervisors were sworn-in for another term during Tuesday's reorganizational meeting; after which, Joe Pinardi was voted in as board chair. Jim Kichak was elected vice-chair. Along with determining the board's leadership, the county's two elected committees were also chosen. The Highway Committee consists of Karl Krall, Scott Erickson, Pat Hanson, Kichack and Larry Youngs. Youngs was the only...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] RAMSAY - The Bessemer Township planning commission met Tuesday afternoon for an extended discussion on the park improvement project. Anna Lovelace, of Coleman Engineering, explained the plans and the members of the commission discussed them in detail. Hope Tarnaski, member of the Ramsay Memorial Park township board and commission, said multiple times how excited she was this was coming to fruition and how long they have waited for the park to be...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — The Hurley City Council re-organized without its mayor in charge on Tuesday. Because an appeals process is in effect following Paul Mullard’s one-vote victory over Joe Pinardi on April 3, Mullard can’t be sworn into office until Monday. As a result, mayor pro-tempore Steve Lombardo was briefly in charge Tuesday until he handed the reigns over to council member Joanne Bruneau, who was named to preside over the meeting. The council tabled two items until its May meeting — a proposed new contrac...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] It took a bit longer than had been predicted, but the Tax Day Blizzard of 2018 arrived in full force across the Gogebic Range on Sunday. The April 15-16 storm socked the Ironwood area with 10 inches of snow for the 24-hour period to 7 a.m. Monday, and more was on the way, as another two to three inches of fluffy stuff had fallen by noon in downtown Ironwood. The 10-inch snowfall set a 119-year record for April 15-16. A lake effect snow advisory...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - Sylvain Collard, general manager of Highland Copper Company Inc., provided the Bessemer city council a brief before they voted on a resolution supporting the Highland Corporation's efforts to open up mines in the area. Collard outlined the three routes Highland is working on. -The Copperwood project, which will begin construction in the third quarter of 2018 and should employ 250-350 people during construction and 300-400 during full-blown...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area Schools is asking for the community’s support, as the district’s board of education approved the official language of a bond measure for the August ballot Monday. The measure is asking voters to approve a tax levy averaging 1.02 mills over five years, with an initial mill rate of .71 in 2019. One mill translates to $1 for every $1,000 of taxable value. The money increases from the initial .71 mills over the course of the millage as previous bond proposals are compl...
WAKEFIELD - The Wakefield-Marenisco School teachers and students are getting ready for annual state testing. Students will take grade-specific state tests during testing windows, which are scheduled from now through the end of May. The teaching staff worked together at an in-service earlier this year to create an action plan which would help to reduce student anxiety over state testing and ultimately increase state test scores for the district. Some of the activities the teaching staff came up...
By STEVE NEWMAN [email protected] MERCER - Readers took advantage of the opportunity to get good books for low prices Saturday at the Mercer Friends of the Library used book sale. According to Teresa Schmidt, the library director, the book sale is one of several pathways that are used by the Friends of the Library to fund special projects to improve the library for its patrons. "The Friends of the Library provides money for the things that are not in our regular budget." Some examples of...
By STEVE NEWMAN [email protected] IRONWOOD — Residents of the area were treated to a chance to think about spring and summer with the Sport and Recreation Show Friday-Sunday at the Pat O’Donnell Civic Center on the Gogebic Community College campus. John Warren, general manager of Heartland Communications Group in Ashland, has put together the show for the past eight years. Warren was pleased with the vendors who came to take part in the show, and particularly the variety of vendors. He stated “we have a variety, from boats, campe...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] HURLEY - April 3 election results had Paul Mullard besting incumbent Hurley Mayor Joe Pinardi 185 to 184 and Friday morning's recount confirmed the totals. Mullard will take office Tuesday during a 4:30 p.m. reorganizational meeting at city hall. Kathleen Byrns, deputy clerk and treasurer for the city, directed June Calvetti and Kathy Osterman in recount procedures while Stacey Wiercinski, city clerk, recorded the votes. The two men agreed when it...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Historic Ironwood Theatre will host American singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow in a concert on Sunday, April 22, at 7 p.m. The Peter in the folk music trio of Peter, Paul and Mary, Yarrow co-wrote - with Leonard Lipton - one of the group's greatest hits, "Puff, the Magic Dragon." He said he was looking forward to performing, given the divisive political atmosphere around the country. He said his performances often produce a spirit in the...
HURLEY — The Hurley City Council on Tuesday agreed the Hurley Area Chamber of Commerce can place an events message sign at the downtown trailhead for the snowmobile-all-terrain vehicle trail. Rita Franzoi, representing the chamber, said it will be a one-sided message center similar to the one in the town of Mercer. Council members noted in addition to the many events sponsored by the chamber, city happenings may be posted on the sign board. Franzoi indicated the cost of electricity, at $146 a year, won’t be excessive. The light emitting dio...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors’ Finance Committee approved the purchase of a pair of radar signs Thursday which will be installed near the two schools in the county. The county had previously installed signs near the Hurley and Mercer schools, according to Iron County Emergency Management Director Stacy Ofstad, but they weren’t working the way the county had hoped. “From the first year we had major issues with those two signs,” Ofstad said. “The one (in Hurley) never did work — we d...
