Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - From 8-11 a.m., Saturday, Ironwood hosted its 15th annual spring clean-up day on the vacant lots off Ayer street. Dumpsters were on site as residents drove through the barricaded road in pairs, emptying their items into the bucket of front end loaders. Toxic materials like car batteries, pesticides, and paint were not accepted for drop off, but old couches and other pieces of furniture were. For the 15th year in a row, the Luther L. Wright...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and Rising Tide came to Ontonagon Sunday to open a new initiative. Ontonagon became the fifth community in the second round to be included in the Rising Tide program. Rising Tide makes Michigan tools available for at risk communities, creating a path toward economic stability and growth. Both state and local leaders were included in the round table with the Governor. Initially 10 communities were chosen for the...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — An Ironwood man pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and delivery of a controlled substance-morphine charges in Gogebic County Circuit Court Thursday. Bo Lee Menara, 37, pleaded guilty to the charges in relation to the death of Angela Mylly in September. Menara caused Mylly’s death by delivering excessive doses of morphine, according to court documents. The delivery of a controlled substance charge is a 20-year felony, while the manslaughter charge carries a potential maximum sen...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] IRONWOOD — Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, went to Washington as a freshman Congressman a year ago in January, but nothing so far as been as productive as a recent limo ride with President Trump. Bergman told the Daily Globe in an interview this week about how he was part of the party that met the President as he flew into Selfridge Air National Guard Base last Saturday on his way to a speaking engagement. “We welcomed him off Air Force One. My fellow Congressmen John Moolenar (R-Midland) and Paul Mit...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] WAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP — The residents of Johnson Road in Wakefield Township are about to have new, taller and higher voltage power lines run to the Xcel Energy pumping station. John Cox, supervisor, said Xcel is staging the new poles on the grounds of the Fellowship hall and it is going to improve power for residents. Cox said Johnson Road is currently under weight restrictions, so they have been plotting the new locations for the poles so they avoid mishaps with plow trucks. Cox drove around the t...
IRONWOOD — Fire managers on the Hiawatha and Ottawa National Forests intend to begin using prescribed fire as a forest management tool in the coming weeks. Prescribed burns make forests more resilient, create habitat for a diversity of wildlife and keep communities safer from future wildfires by reducing accumulated debris (hazardous fuel.) All projects are dependent upon several factors, including favorable weather and site conditions. Each burn area requires a different “prescription,” which determines what wind direction and speed, tempe...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] SAXON, Wis. - While boaters still have a week or two before Saxon Harbor's boat launch closes May 14, the public is being asked to stay away from the harbor during construction this summer. "The biggest thing is that the facility is closed - and I mean the whole thing is closed for construction - for the safety not only of the people trying to work, but the people that are coming to look, too. Harbor Lights is going to be open, that's a good...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] BESSEMER - Marty's Goldenaires Drum and Bugle Corps is preparing for another busy summer season. Some locals got a sneak peak at the 2018 corps at last weekend's Vietnam Veterans steak feed at the Hurley American Legion, and Marty's public relations officer, Pearce Graham, released the corps' full schedule this week. A return to the American Legion National Convention in Minneapolis Aug. 26-27 is certainly a highlight of the coming season, said...
IRONWOOD — David M. Lindquist, Director of Licensing and Athletic Properties at the University of Minnesota Twin-Cities, will be the graduation speaker for Gogebic Community College’s 84th annual commencement ceremony on Friday, May 11. The ceremony will be at 6:30 in the facility named after his father, the David G. Lindquist Student and Conference Center Gymnasium. Lindquist, a GCC alumnus, holds a bachelor of science degree in Speech Communications from Northern Michigan University. He is an active member of the International Collegiate Lic...
HURLEY — The Gogebic Iron Area Narcotics Team has released additional details about the three defendants arrested in the town of Knight over the weekend. The Iron County Sheriff’s Department initially responded to a report of an altercation in the town of Knight at approximately 6:53 a.m. Sunday, according to a GIANT press release. During the initial investigation, responding deputies located drug paraphernalia and suspected controlled substances, which led to the execution of a search warrant on the residence, which resulted in the discovery o...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — While neither has the job yet, the Ironwood Area Schools Board of Education narrowed the field for the district’s next superintendent down to two Wednesday. Ewen-Trout Creek Superintendent Alan Tulppo and Travis Powell, principal of Lake Superior Elementary School in Ashland, Wis., will both be offered second interviews. “I think we’ve been very fortunate to have two good choices,” board trustee Marilyn Carey said after the board made its selections. The pair were two of the four cand...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] SAXON, Wis. - Brown trout were released near chunks of floating ice in Lake Superior at Saxon Harbor on Wednesday. A crew from the Department of Natural Resources Brule hatchery released the 14,200 Seeforellen browns into the lake on a cold morning. The trout would typically be stocked later in the year, but the harbor boat landings will be closed May 15 when dredging begins. The harbor is being reconstructed after a July 11, 2016, storm destroyed the...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — While Judge Michael Pope’s final decision isn’t expected to be announced until a sentencing hearing later this month, both sides made their cases regarding the amount of restitution former treasurer Jyl Renee Olson-DeRosso owes Ironwood Township Tuesday in Gogebic County Circuit Court. In March, Olson-DeRosso, 48, pleaded guilty or no-contest to 10 counts related to forgery and embezzlement which occurred while she served as a treas...
More northern Wisconsin waters are melting in time for the Saturday inland fishing season opener and walleyes are likely to have finished spawning in many lakes, state fisheries officials said Tuesday. Justine Hasz, Wisconsin’s fisheries director, noted much of the state is experiencing temperatures in the 70s this week, with a few 80s mixed in, and that means that ice conditions are highly variable and changing quickly. There’s still plenty of ice on bodies of water like the Gile Flowage, near Hurley. Chief DNR Warden Todd Schaller said ang...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - A Monday workshop by the Wakefield city council addressed preliminary concerns regarding the city's 2018-19 fiscal year budget, which will kick in on July 1. "This is just the opener right now," said mayor John Granato at the start of the session, which included no voting. Council members welcomed the city's major department heads to share their concerns for the new year. They included public works foreman Mike Sibley, electric department lead...
WATERSMEET - On the Michigan-Wisconsin border in Gogebic and Vilas counties, Lac Vieux Desert is a 4,000-acre lake where walleye numbers have been falling. Fisheries managers have observed all-time lows of walleyes, stemming from declines in natural reproduction. While the decline is not completely understood, a cooperative interagency walleye rehabilitation plan in response was recently drafted by the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources,...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — The Ironwood Township Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting Wednesday to allow Plante Moran employees to present the results of the township’s forensic audit to residents. While the audit’s results are expected to be discussed publicly for the first time at today’s restitution hearing in Gogebic County Circuit Court, Wednesday’s meeting will likely be the first time many residents have the opportunity to hear the details of the case against former treasurer Jyl Olson...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] MARENISCO — The Wakefield-Marenisco Board of Education voted to accept resignations from one teacher and two coaches at its Monday meeting at the Marenisco Town Hall. The board meets twice a year in Marenisco, with the next meeting in that community on Oct. 22. Connie Hellman, the district’s high school special education teacher, submitted her resignation for reasons of retirement. In a letter to the board, Hellman said her job has been “a pleasure” and offered to help train her replacement if needed....
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - A dry and sunny Saturday greeted participants of the 3rd Annual Color Run/Walk of Domestic Violence Escape, Inc. DOVE, which is based in Ironwood, offered the untimed circuits at Sunday Lake, with registration at Wakefield's VFW Post 9084. "This is the first year that we still have ice on the lake," said Jeanine Winkowski, executive director of DOVE. Sarah Legassa of Wakefield, who was participating for the second time, joked that she was...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - The strip of land between U.S. 51 and the Montreal River in Hurley will hopefully look more colorful this summer after the local Boy Scouts and master gardeners planted seed balls on the land Saturday. Saturday's work was the culmination of a project that started last fall when the Range Master Gardeners helped the members of Boy Scout Troop 323 out of Hurley and Ironwood actually make the seed balls. The balls are a mixture of mud and...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] BESSEMER — Spring was in full flower Saturday as Bessemer gave a hearty welcome to its first annual “Daffodil Dayz” at VFW Post 3673. Daffodils and bulbs were available for sale upon entry, and tables throughout the bar featured daffodil centerpieces. “Daffodil girls” dressed in yellow sold tickets at a table filled with festive green raffle bags. Meanwhile, the hall bustled with about 30 vendor booths selling a variety of goods to happy shoppers, many dressed in yellow, green, pink or blue. “We’re going...
