Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The state of Wisconsin will be responsible for prosecuting the five defendants accused of being involved in the death of a missing Lac du Flambeau man whose body was found in Mercer. Wayne Valliere Jr. — a member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa — was last seen Dec. 22 and reported missing Dec. 25. His body was found in the town of Mercer Jan. 1. Iron County District Attorney Matt Tingstad said Assistant Attorney General Richard Dufour was expected to handle the p...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The city of Bessemer contracts with Eagle Waste and Recycling for its trash and recycling. This week Bessemer has a substitute driver and he found some of the conditions treacherous on Monday and Tuesday as he was making his rounds. The Daily Globe reached out to Eagle Waste and Recycling Tuesday afternoon to discover what residents ought to do with their trash and recycling if they have not been picked up. Krista McCrumb said the truck...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Coaches Dennis Mackey and Mark Movrich led their basketball teams into the board meeting Tuesday, with each player stating their name, hometown, and major. School President Jim Lorenson informed the players he hears positive things from their competitors and they are doing well. Coach Mackey asked Lorenson to come to the gym for the Feb. 10 game to flip the coin, as Mackey pointed out he kept last years winning coin available in a special...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — In Iron County, a lot of financial decisions live and die at the Iron County Board of Supervisors’ Finance Committee. The county board debated changing that Tuesday as it discussed whether purchases above a set amount needed to be brought before the full county board rather than handled by the committee. “I feel that too much has been put onto the finance committee, as far as being able to make decisions without coming back to the full county board. We don’t get any recomme...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] MUSKEGON — The Michigan Department of Corrections said Monday the West Shoreline Correctional Facility in Muskegon will close on March 24. The move is being made to compensate for a “significant decline in the prison population statewide,” the DOC said. The move means the Ojibway Correctional Facility near Marenisco will remain open. It was not immediately known whether some of the West Shorelines prison guards may be transferred to the Ojibway facility in Marenisco, which has been experiencing a sho...
KIMBALL, Wis. - The Northwest Land Trust and Iron County Outdoor Recreation Enthusiasts are offering the public to chance to explore Interstate Falls and see the waterfall during winter. Local naturalist John Bates will lead the hike, which is scheduled for 1 p.m. Feb. 8. "Participants should plan to meet at the Interstate Falls parking lot by 1 p.m. People can look for the large 'Interstate Falls' sign visible from U.S. 2, just west of the U.S. 51 interchange. The parking lot is about 500 feet...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] HURLEY - Van Hill, co-coach of the Gogebic Range Robotics team, with team mentor Ron Peterson and four members of the team visited ModTruss in Fond du Lac, Wis., on Saturday. The company is owned by Ironwood native and Luther L. Wright graduate Patrick Santini. Hill said Santini is, "a real down to earth guy. We hung out at his headquarters all day." Hill said ModTruss is going to partner with the GRR and sponsor the team's pit stall. The students...
OMA, Wis. - A 45-year-old woman was dead at the scene of a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 51 near County CC in Oma Sunday morning. A 32-year-old man involved in the crash was taken to Aspirus Ironwood Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. According to the Iron County Sheriff's Department, a car driven the 45-year-old woman crossed the center line on U.S. 51 at 2:56 a.m. Sunday and was hit by the 32-year-old man's vehicle. The woman was wearing her seat belt at the time of the crash, according...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] GILE, Wis. - A sunny, but windy Saturday provided excellent conditions for pursuing walleyes on the Gile Flowage during the third annual Annie's Bar tournament. Tournament host Annie Van Epern said at noon that 106 people had registered for the tourney. No whoppers had been caught yet, but some decent-sized walleyes and northern pike were being iced in 30-degree weather. Competitors had until 5 p.m. to register fish and the walleye bite usually doesn't...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] The civilian labor force and total employment rose but so did unemployment in Gogebic County in the last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Market Information. Unemployment in Gogebic County from November to December rose from 5.3 percent to 6.2 percent during that time. The good news was the labor force available for work rose by 125, from 6,175 to 6,300 in the past two months. Total employment in same time frame, also rose by 50 to 5,900. One year ago the unemployment rate was 5.4 percent. The rise in...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has been working snowmobile patrols that began with the New Year's weekend, when the Ironwood area experienced two fatalities. MDNR Sgt. Grant Emery, formerly of Bessemer, worked snowmobile activity in the Porcupine Mountains State Park, according to a Dec. 31-Jan. 13 report from the DNR. Trail conditions were “near perfect” because of a large amount of snowfall and snowmobilers flocked to the park. Emery took enforcement action for failure to register sno...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - Those attending the basketball game Thursday night at Luther L. Wright K-12 School may not have expected it, but they had the opportunity to learn about the importance of healthy living as the Ironwood Area Schools hosted its inaugural health and wellness fair the same night. The event was organized by some of the students in the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District's Certified Nursing Assistant program, with the help of distric...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Michigan State University Extension office in Bessemer, in conjunction with Aspirus Ironwood Hospital, will host a Dining With Diabetes workshop, designed for people with diabetes and their family members. The MSU-E office said the four-class series — beginning Feb. 27 at 11 a.m. — includes diabetes education, cooking demonstrations, and tasting of healthy foods. After each lesson, members of the class are provided recipes and greater knowledge about how to manage diabetes in their dai...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Deon Ervans knew at least three years ago he wanted to go into cosmetology. Back then as a junior at the Wakefield-Marenisco school, he wanted to study at the Paul Mitchell school in Escanaba. In comparing Gogebic Community College's program and the Paul Mitchell program, Ervans decided to stay local, as GCC had a higher success rate and cost less. On Dec. 15, Ervans completed the three-semester program at GCC, but must delay entry into...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MADISON, Wis. — A bill to continue the muzzleloader deer hunt on the Apostle Islands passed the Wisconsin legislature Tuesday. The state Senate passed the bi-partisan bill, which had originated in the state Assembly, sending the legislation to Gov. Scott Walker’s desk. If signed into law, Assembly Bill 626 would eliminate a potential unintended consequence of Wisconsin Act 50 — which was passed in 2011. That law banned most gun-deer seasons prior to the Saturday before Thanksgiving, with the excep...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — Two people were appointed to the Gogebic County Transit Board Wednesday by the county board. Bill McMullin and Carrie Hampston were appointed, as recommended by GCT director Jim Mildren, who attended Wednesday’s county board meeting. Two county board members, Bob Orlich and Dan Siirila, were critical of Mildren because he included negative comments about another candidate for the transit board, Larry Rovelsky. Mildren, an Ironwood City Commission member, said Rovelsky has been involved in...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — A lengthy debate over whether to apply for a matching grant for window replacements on a fairgrounds building led to a compromise vote by the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners Wednesday. Board members weren’t comfortable with matching a possible $25,000 grant from the state with $25,000 in county money for 113 new windows in the cattle barn. Instead, they agreed to appropriate $25,000 to be used for a structural study of the fairgrounds buildings. Commissioner Tom Laabs, of Iro...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield city council voted Monday to support current city policy that allows qualifying city employees to receive medical insurance from the time they retire until age 65 or whenever Medicare coverage occurs. The vote includes the caveat that the council will reevaluate its insurance coverage before the next union contract is set. Under current policy, city employees may continue to receive insurance coverage for themselves (but not spouses) until they turn 65 or until Medicare c...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] The winter storm that swept through the Gogebic Range Monday evening and early Tuesday didn't produce excessive amounts of snow, but drifting conditions made driving hazardous. U.S. 2 near Ashland was closed Monday evening because of winds whipping heavy snow off Lake Superior across the highway. Winds gusted as high as 30 mph across the Upper Peninsula. Parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin received more than a foot of snow. Area snowfall totals varied...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Before Jan. 1, Wakefield had an ambulance parked in its main street fire hall. But Mike Yon, chief of the city's volunteer fire department, told the Wakefield City Council Monday the ambulance is no longer there. Yon said that Beacon Ambulance Service, as of the start of the year, decided that staffing challenges would make it impossible to continue housing one of its vans in Wakefield. So what happens when a Wakefield citizen calls 911 with a...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — The Bessemer Public Library will host two resume workshops in February. Librarian Melissa Lupino said people can come to either the Feb. 3 or Feb. 8 workshops, both at 10 a.m., and leave with a resume in hand for their next job. Lupino said she has seen resumes that were nothing more than one or two sentences on a piece of paper, because many people do not know how to complete one. On the flip side, a person may have a federal eight-page resume while applying for civilian jobs that only a...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] MARENISCO - Marenisco Township officials made it official Monday, opening the new pavilion in Donald McKenzie Memorial Park with a cut of a ceremonial ribbon and some coffee and goodies for those who came to celebrate. While the structure was built this past summer using a $400,000 Department of Natural Resources Trust Fund Grant, Marenisco Police Chief Bruce Mahler said the township had been working on the project since 2005. Grant proposals were...
