Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - It was the parents who went to school Wednesday as the Ironwood Area Schools held its inaugural Parents Academy. The event featured district staff presenting on a range of topics, including Advanced Placement classes, how to help young students read, ACT/SAT prep and the scholarships available for college. In the gym, students in some of the district's science classes also presented on the work they were doing in class. There were also...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY - Ross Peterson Construction, of Hurley, cast the apparent low bid Thursday of five received for the city of Hurley's summer infrastructure project, at $1,134,153. Jeff Seamandel, of MSA Professional Services, the city's engineering company for the project, opened the sealed bids at city hall as representatives of the five companies awaited the results. Seamandel was pleased that the apparent low bid was under the $1,210,000 his company had...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — A Hurley man is facing eight felony counts related to inappropriate contact he allegedly had with two minors. Joshua Richard Quello, 18, faces seven counts of sexual assault of a child under the age of 16 and one count of exposing a child to harmful material, according to the criminal complaint against him filed in Iron County Court Tuesday. Each assault charge is a Class C felony, with a potential maximum sentence of up to 40 years in prison, or a fine of $100,000, while the eighth c...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - The fear of the unknown can take a person to their knees shaking over, the unknown. At other times, what we think we know that just is not so, can take people to their knees in fear and irrational thoughts. With that in mind, Aspirus Ironwood is hosting grade school aged children this week to show them areas of the hospital and aspects of physical care, before they need it, in an attempt to assuage those fears from developing. On...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] LANSING — State Rep. Scott Dianda, D-Calumet, said the Michigan Strategic Fund has awarded a $6.5 million grant to Northern Michigan University in Marquette to bring high-speed broadband across the entire Upper Peninsula. “This is great news for the communities in House District 110 that have long struggled without high-speed broadband service. This means entrepreneurs can live here and run their online businesses, and people can choose to stay in the U.P. or realize their dreams of moving to the U.P...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] BRUCE CROSSING — On Friday, a caravan of large trucks bringing relief are heading out from Bruce Crossing to Kansas to assist farmers and cattlemen devastated by fires that have burned farms, killed livestock and charred cattle feed. The trucks are lining up at the Settlers Co-op feed mill from 9 to 10 a.m. Friday. According to a source at the co-op, the co-op is taking a percentage of the price of purchased items and donating it to the relief effort. Marty DeHann, Mass City and Jan Strieter, Lake Linden, a...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] WHITE PINE - Construction on a copper mine in eastern Gogebic County that could lead to over 300 direct jobs could begin as early as 2018, Highland Copper president and CEO Denise Miville-Deschenes said Tuesday, with mining beginning in late 2020 and early 2021. Miville-Deschenes provided the update on Highland's Copperwood Project, located in northern Ironwood and Wakefield townships, at a press conference Tuesday in White Pine. The Copperwood...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The rebuilt campground at Saxon Harbor will be located on elevated land east of the harbor, after the Iron County Board of Supervisors voted 10-3 Tuesday to approve the new location. Board members Paul Mullard, Larry Youngs and Karl Krall voted against the measure; Jack Prospero abstained and Ken Saari wasn’t present. “We’ve got a chance to build a recreational area here. Not just a campground, but a recreational area,” Scott Erickson said in defense of the site, referring to the count...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — February temperatures were 7 degrees above normal in Ironwood, the ninth warmest in the past 116 years. Highs of 58 degrees on Feb. 17 and Feb. 19 pushed the monthly average temperature to 22.3 degrees, according to Kevin Crupi, of the National Weather Service office in Marquette. Pacific air flowed into the Ironwood area around mid-month, when some of the precipitation came down as rain. Snowfall for the month totaled 24.5 inches, or 3.7 inches below the long-term average. A 9.1-inch snowfa...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The Bessemer School Board voted unanimously to accept Ironwood joingin the co-op football program in an anti-climactic vote of solidarity Monday evening. Jim Partanen and Tim France provided a brief overview before the vote, two members of the public expressed their support and the board said, "Aye." The Gogebic Miners are part of the West Pac Conference, using Ironwood's already present schedule for 2017 and only have one game to find,...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The remains of the man found dead in a city of Ironwood house on March 20 have been identified, according to the Ironwood Public Safety Department. Gerald Glen Thompson was born in 1936, according to an IPSD Monday news release. Family members have been notified, according to Adam Clemens, the IPSD officer who has been investigating the case. He said foul play is not suspected, but an investigation is continuing. Clemens said the address of the house isn’t being released. He said the hou...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon Fire Department volunteers will now be treated as village employees under action taken by the Ontonagon Village Council Monday. The method by which firemen were paid has been an issue for several months and was highlighted in a television interview of Sue Lockhart. Lockhart told the council Monday that her interview was “not against the fire department,” but was intended to call attention to the village which she said was “not complying with federal and state laws.” “You spend a lot o...
By ISABELLE KLEINSCHMIDT [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Regional Hospice held its Annual Polar Plunge on Saturday afternoon in Wakefield. This is the 11th year of the event. Sunday Lake was still covered in snow and an estimated 16 inches of ice, but that didn't deter participants from coming out and jumping into the opening in the ice. Over 40 people dressed in all sorts of costumes took the plunge to support the cause. "I like to come out and support a good cause" said jumper Samantha...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - Jim Bobula, Ontonagon Area School superintendant, called the first job fair held at the school Friday a "good success and a great start," in showing young people and the community that there are jobs available if you have the right skills. Junior and senior young people from the schools of the Gogebic Ontonagon Intermediate School District and the public attended the fair with 28 business venders explaining what they have to offer in the way of...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] SPRINGSTEAD — Two Iron County lakes have been selected for an experiment researchers hope will lead to stopping the decline of walleye populations across the state of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologist Zach Lawson said he was notified March 20 McDermott Lake and Sandy Beach Lake in the town of Sherman were selected for a five-year experiment conducted by the DNR, University of Wisconsin’s Center for Limnology and the Cooperative Fisheries Research Unit at UW-...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] GILE, Wis. - As the weather warms up, members of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are preparing for another season of work intended to improve panfish populations in the Gile Flowage. Included in those efforts is the cutting down around 100 trees, according to Fisheries Biologist Zach Lawson, to improve habitat. Lawson said about 20 percent were felled in November, "While we still had open water. We were able to squeeze it in between...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — Gogebic County Board of Commissioners members on Wednesday authorized signing of a summer airport project resolution that won’t be affected by federal budget cuts. The county board authorized its chairman, George Peterson, of Watersmeet, to sign an agreement between the Hunt and Mead firm and the county for the terminal apron rehabilitation project at the Gogebic-Iron County Airport in Ironwood Township. A resolution was presented to the board by airport manager Mike Harma. Com...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - Ironwood's second graders spent part of the last two weeks working on a project about penguins, but rather than learn from their teachers, the students were taught by some of the district's high schoolers. The students were from the district's business information technology class, according to second grade teacher Michelle Trier. Trier said the project was developed after she and Tess Paakola, who teaches the technology class,...
BESSEMER - Students from A.D. Johnston High School competed in the Region 1 Science Olympiad tournament at Northern Michigan University in Marquette Saturday, bringing home two seconds. The competition is about science, technology, engineering and math. "After an exhausting day of competition, the students assembled with high hopes and expectations for the final results and standings," said coach Dave Rowe. "The Bessemer teams have transitioned from teams that participate to a perennial power...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The sky is the limit when people come together for each other. The "Sing For Hope" charity seeks to place decorated pianos in public schools to supplement the decreasing funds available to schools for extracurricular activities like the arts. Bridget Grotberg, an art teacher at the Wakefield-Marenisco K-12 School for the past seven years, heard about the program and applied in November. Grotberg submitted a plan her application, portfolio...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — The Ironwood Township Planning Commission set the date for a public hearing regarding the renewal for gravel pit permits at its March 16 meeting. The annual hearing, a standard part of the renewal process for the special use permits for sand and gravel pits, is scheduled for April 20 at 6 p.m. at the township hall. Last year, the commission approved 12 applicants for one-year permits. The commission also re-elected its officers, with Jason Hofstede chairman, Darrin Kimbler v...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - Firefighting efforts at 401 N. Hemlock St. in Ironwood continued into Wednesday afternoon after a spectacular blaze that produced thick smoke was reported at 8:42 a.m. The two-story house was a total loss. It took the Ironwood Public Safety Department only three minutes to respond to the fire of undetermined origin, according to an initial IPSD report. No one was at home at the time, but there were two dogs in the burning structure....
