Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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LANSING — Michigan has achieved a significant milestone in the state’s efforts to keep babies safe with the 200th surrender of a newborn under the state’s Safe Delivery law. Under the law, a biological parent may legally surrender an infant no more than 72 hours old to an emergency service provider. An emergency service provider is a uniformed or otherwise identified employee or contractor of a hospital, fire department or police station who is inside the building and on duty, or a paramedic or emergency medical technician who responds to a...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MINOCQUA, Wis. - As was the case last year, Iron County was represented on the waters of Minocqua Lake Saturday during the second annual Minocqua Dragon Boat Festival. Iron Dragons were among the 26 teams competing in the festival's races. "It was just a great day. It was a lot of fun ... the weather was perfect, and the fact our area can collect so many people together to be in alignment for a charitable cause is really notable," Iron Dragons team...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - Saturday morning at Amy Ackley Anderson's TroutLily Art and Design studio and shop on Sophie Street, the third annual backpack give away for students at the Washington Elementary school was held. Thrivent, Walmart and the Gogebic Association of Retired School Personnel as well as over 30 other contributors came together to provide the packs and supplies, as well as the refreshments and snacks, according to Al Gaiss. All told, 55 backpacks...
IRONWOOD — For two hours and 41 minutes Monday the Ironwood area is going to experience a partial eclipse of the sun. The solar eclipse starts at 11:49 a.m. And reaches its maximum, approximately 80 percent masked by the moon, at 1:10 p.m., ending at 2:30 p.m. This is the first eclipse in 99 years to sweep from coast to coast in the United States and veteran eclipse watchers warned the uninitiated to be prepared to be blown away by the eclipse if they have not witnessed one prior. Across the US, 200 million people are within a days drive to the...
IRONWOOD - The Ironwood Carnegie Library is hosting a dual event on Monday to celebrate the end of the summer reading program and solar eclipse. Lynne Wiercinski, librarian, said Monday's event will kick off at 12:55 p.m. They would like all their summer readers, parents and everyone else who can make it to come to the library for the event. Wiercinski said they have glasses on hand. Having been listed as an official provider on the internet, they have given away a bunch of glasses, but also...
IRONWOOD — Contractors for the Michigan Department of Transportation will begin pavement joint repairs Tuesday on about three-tenths of a mile of U.S. 2, from the Wisconsin state line to west of Tourist Park Road, in Ironwood. The work will require lane shifts and lane closures under flag control. It is the next phase of a project that, in addition to joint repairs and resurfacing on U.S. 2, will resurface 1.3 miles of U.S. 2 Business Route from U.S. 2 south along Douglas Boulevard, through downtown Ironwood and west to the Wisconsin state l...
IRONWOOD - Eleven cyclists took off from Ironwood Thursday morning on what they called the inaugural Upper Peninsula Iron Belle Trail Ride, with a goal of arriving in St. Ignace on Saturday. The riders will cross the Upper Peninsula on the non-motorized Iron Belle Trail, which is designated to cross the entire state, uninterrupted from Ironwood to Belle Isle in Detroit. Locally, Bob Jacquart helped muster the ride, gaining support from the city of Ironwood, Department of Natural Resources,...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - There's support to extend Ironwood's First Friday downtown promotional effort beyond September. On Monday, the city commission discussed the possibility of adding at least an October First Friday night, when many stores remain open later and musical entertainment is offered in the Art Park. So far, the effort has received a thumbs-up from the general public and city officials, bringing good crowds to the downtown on a night when the streets...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Several engineering firms continue to work on designing the improvements necessary for ski flying competitions to return to Copper Peak. According to Copper Peak’s August update, Duluth-based Barr Engineering and Iron Mountain-based Gundlach Champion have been working with Coleman Engineering for almost two months on designs to bring the Ironwood Township ski hill up to standards required by the International Ski Federation — a key step if Copper Peak is to follow through on its plan to host competitions in the fall of 20...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - U.S. Sen. Gary Peters visited Ironwood Wednesday during his motorcycle trip around the state. During the visit he stopped by the Daily Globe to talk about the issues he is working on in Washington D.C. - including jobs, health care, the Essential Air Service and a promise to look into the rules regarding the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to natural disasters. As part of the Senate committee's on Commerce, Science and...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The Bessemer School Board met on Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. The meeting lasted over two hours and nothing was settled. Nothing was settled because decisions were not made as it was a working group. As such, without the concerns of voting, the members appeared free to brainstorm and think how best to engage the future, without setting any policy. No one from the public showed up. Dave Wineburner, the new A.D. Johnston principal was in...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — A 36-year-old former Montreal, Wis., resident was sentenced in Iron County Court Wednesday morning for failure to update information as a sex offender and being a party to the crime of identity theft. David Trovillion was sentenced by Iron County Judge Patrick Madden to one year in jail for being a party to identity theft, concurrent with an Ashland County sentence Trovillion is serving at the Waupun prison. He was also sentenced Wednesday to a year of incarceration and 12 months of e...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — Pat Gallinagh had some grim statistics for the Ironwood City Commission on Monday. The suicide rate in Ontonagon County is the highest in the state and Gogebic County ranks seventh among the 83 counties, he noted. The Ironwood resident, a former area educator and high school football coach, believes the lack of psychiatric counseling on the Gogebic Range plays a big factor in the high suicide rate here, in addition to alcohol and drug abuse and the availability of firearms. “The sca...
GURNEY, Wis. - With the construction of a new boardwalk and viewing platform, visitors are once again able to easily take in the Lower Potato River Falls. The previous platform and cliff supporting it were washed away during the rain and flooding that hit northern Iron County during the same July 11, 2016 storm that destroyed Saxon Harbor. While reconstruction of the harbor remains in the planning stages, the Iron County Forestry Department's staff began work on the new observation platform in...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — Ontonagon has a new mine inspector. Doug Roberts, Bruce Crossing, was named to fill the vacancy created by the death of Bob Niemela. Niemela was elected in November, but died in May. The appointment was made by the county executive committee of clerk Stacey Preiss, prosecutor Michael Findley and probate judge Janis Burgess. Roberts worked for many years at the White Pine Copper Mine. Commissioner Gray Webber reported on a meeting held to investigate the possibility of a county-wide building i...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] MERCER, Wis. - Bob and Ellen Downing, chairman and chairman's helper for the Mercer Lions Club, reported a great crowd showed up for the duck race on Aug. 5 in Mercer. The Downings said everyone had a really good time and people are already looking forward to next year's race. The Mercer Duck Race, a fundraiser for Lions International, has grown every year since its inception in 2011. The funds raised have also grown from 2011 to present, starting...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — Around 80 percent of the funding for five demolition projects approved Monday night by the Ironwood City Commission will come from a grant. The commission approved Snow Country Contracting for all of the eyesore removal projects, as follows: 142 Rowe St., $15,049; 340 E. Pine St., $26,083; 249 E. Ash St., $20,883; 433 Shale Road, $21,819; 431 Shale Road, $32,146. Snow Country knocked off $6,300 from the 431 Shale Rd. demolition because it received both Shale Road bids and the work will be i...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Those playing on the Sunset Park Baseball Field will have an easier time fielding grounders next season as the Ironwood Township Board of Trustees approved repairing the infield Monday. The township was planning to spend roughly $3,400 to completely renovate the field; according to Ironwood Township Supervisor Steve Boyd, who said the township budgeted $3,600 for the project. However, it may cost less than expected to complete the work. “We got a very good offer on the cla...
\By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] SPRINGSTEAD - The Sherman Town Hall's parking lot was full Saturday as the Sherman-Springstead Fire Department held its annual Corn Roast fundraiser. Department Chief Ron King was pleased with the turnout for the event, saying the weather was great. "(It's a) beautiful day," King said. "You can't beat it." This is the 38th year the department has held the Corn Roast, which is one of its largest fundraisers. King said the money raised from the...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] LAKE GOGEBIC - Saturday afternoon, on a bright and sunny day, supporters of the three-headed hydra that is the Gogebic Miners football team gathered together at Gogebic Lodge to eat grilled steaks with all the fixings and drink adult sodas. All three schools were represented in the donors and supporters class; but even more important, the athletic directors of two out of the three schools were captured shucking corn together and playing nice. The...
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Transportation will be expanding its construction on U.S. 51 in Iron County this week. Beginning Wednesday, work will begin on the highway between Weber Road and County C. American Asphalt is the prime contractor for the $1.6 million project; which will resurface the highway, replace culverts and install centerline rumble strips. The company is also the prime contractor for a project of a similar scope between Moose Lake Road and South End Road that was scheduled to start Aug. 7. That s...
