Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - A year ago, the Ironwood City Commission prioritized goals for 2016-17. On Monday, commissioners and City Manager Scott Erickson reviewed the goals and the consensus was a great deal of progress has been made on almost all of them. The number one goal - to complete the 16-inch transmission line to the city's well-fields, along with a phase 4 sewer-water project - will be accomplished this year. Erickson said funding has been approved through...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Gogebic Community College Board of Trustees met on Tuesday afternoon to swear in members and elect officers for the next year. The meeting was a jovial affair with significant banter, while also capturing the necessary tasks and putting purpose to them. Linda Gustafson swore in Susan Beals, Susan Murphy and Tim Kolesar to warm up the meeting before the real mission came into focus. John Lupino was elected to hold the office of chairman...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The Michigan State Police's Wakefield post has added another new face, as another graduate from the state's trooper academy joins the force. William Fry graduated from the 131st Trooper Recruit School - 23 weeks of instruction - a little less than a month ago, joining the Wakefield post shortly after that. Fry is one of the several new troopers who have been assigned to the post in recent years. "We're quite a young post at this point. I...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER TOWNSHIP — The Bessemer Township board met on Monday evening and Jeff Randall, Board Supervisor discussed how the new Firetruck saved the day for Indianhead prior to the Christmas surge of visitors. Apparently the wind blew the door open at the Indianhead Pump station after it was inspected and the station froze solid Dec. 19. The township lent their workers to the Gogebic Range Water Authority to thaw the station while sending a team of v...
IRONWOOD — Following more snow today, the Ironwood forecast calls for a return of frigid weather throughout the week. According to the National Weather Service, there was a 90 to 100 percent chance of snow today, ranging from 3 to 5 inches, but that will drop to 60 percent on Wednesday, when the low reading will return below zero. Today’s high was predicted at 28 degrees, quite an improvement from last week’s temperatures that dipped well below zero. Thursday is shaping up as the coldest day of the week, with a high of 9 and low of minus...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — The Ironwood Township Board of Trustees spent little time Monday discussing the communication from the state’s Department of Environmental Quality, likely due to the fact it contained nothing but good news. The letter — dated Dec. 15, 2016 — is a follow up to a department visit made Nov. 30, 2016. “The primary purpose of our visit was to determine compliance and conduct a formal water system evaluation under the Michigan Safe Drinking Act,” Douglas Pascoe wrote in the letter....
By ISABELLE KLEINSCHMIDT [email protected] IRONWOOD - The SISU Snowshoe race was held despite the frigid cold on Sunday morning, dozens of racers turned out for the event. As racers lined-up, several supporters were there to cheer them on for the race. A fire was kept beside the finish line for the crowd and racers to warm-up afterwards. The course went through some of the wider ski trails with several smaller snowshoe trails included throughout. "It's a fun race through a beautiful...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] WAKEFIELD — According to trooper Jerry Mazurek with the Michigan State Police, over 500,000 older adults are abused or neglected nationwide each year. Elders unable to protect themselves are the victims of neglect and exploitation because they are unable to protect themselves due to either advanced age and/or physical and mental impairment. The perpetrators of the abuse are often family members, friends, neighbors, and even their caregivers, with the abuse typically occurring in the home. “There are...
IRONWOOD — Ironwood Chamber of Commerce Director Michael Meyer told the city’s Economic Development Corporation Wednesday why the December Jack Frost parade has been shifted from Friday to Saturday. Meyer said the primary reason for the change was to create more opportunities for businesses, as the original intent of the downtown December parade was for commercial purposes. Also, he said a Saturday evening parade will be better for school children and working families who not only want to watch the parade, but also participate in it. Meyer sai...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — The Bessemer Area School District Board of Education shrugged off the cold Thursday morning to elect new officers and vote on a school bond application. In a unanimous vote, the board accepted a motion to forward a bond application to the state’s treasury office. The bond requires demolishing of the Washington Elementary School and expansion of the A.D. Johnston school to be split and considered separate efforts, although the district is not beholden to destruction and can still sell the...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — A Ramsay man was sentenced to prison on drug and other charges in Gogebic County Circuit Court Tuesday. Martin Daniel Stein, 32, was sentenced to a minimum of 28 months in prison and a maximum of 15 years for possession of methamphetamine. He was also sentenced to 90 days for a misdemeanor illegal entry charge. Stein pleaded guilty to the two charges in November as part of a plea agreement that dismissed a charge of possessing meth on school/library property. The agreement also called f...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Seven years ago Mark Fitting had an idea to start a regular snowshoeing group in Ironwood for local residents to get together and walk the trails. He talked to his friend, Sam Davey, about organizing the weekly events and said he would take care of the post-walk chow arrangements if Davey would organize the walks. Davey agreed and the Superior Snowshoe Walking group was born. On Wednesday evening, the group met at the Michigan welcome cente...
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By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON – Carl Nykanen, Ewen, was elected the new Ontonagon County Commission Board Chairman for a two year term, at the commission reorganization meeting Wednesday. Nykanen, who has served on the board for six years, replaces John Pelkola, Trout Creek, who was defeated in the November election by one vote. John Cane, Ontonagon, was reelected Vice Chair. Nykanen thanked the board members for their vote of confidence. He said his aim for the next year is to "...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — Gogebic County Circuit Judge Michael Pope denied a motion Tuesday filed by John Raymond Davis’ appellate attorney to allow Davis to withdraw his guilty plea in the Sunset Road meth lab case. Davis, 42, was sentenced to a minimum of 10 years in prison in July on charges of operating/maintaining a meth lab and conspiracy to maintain a meth lab. The charges stemmed from the March discovery of an active meth lab in a Sunset Road apartment building Davis was renting. Davis was rep...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — The efforts to develop a non-motorized trail through Gogebic County took a step forward Tuesday night as the Bessemer City Council approved using city funds to purchase a portion of property owned by Pat Steiger that allows the trail route to continue east. The council approved spending $8,125 to be used as local matching funds for a Michigan Department of Natural Resources grant intended to be used to purchase property between Bessemer and Wakefield — including approximately five acr...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] The average number of arrests over the last four years during New Year’s celebrations is 22.75 in Gogebic County. The lowest number recorded in the past four years was 21 arrests/citations in 2015. The high number is 26, in 2014. This year, with the celebration of the New Year occurring over a weekend, expectations were high for the record being broken, especially with the influx of tourists enjoying snow-covered trails and local night life and festivities. Local law enforcement made 22 a...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - The volunteers for this years SISU cross country race and ski fest met with race leadership on Tuesday at the Memorial Building in downtown Ironwood to identify weak areas of support to ensure the event goes off without a hitch. Jim Decur, President of the Ski Fest Board, called the meeting to order and handed the affair over to Jackie Powers, Race Director. Powers identified weaknesses in their volunteer support and called for more...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] At the same time gas prices are on the rise, an increase in Michigan gas taxes went into effect on Sunday. Michigan rang in the new year with hikes at the gas pumps as drivers are paying 7.3 cents more per gallon in gasoline taxes because of a package of transportation-related tax hikes signed into law in 2015 by Gov. Rick Snyder. Truckers pay an additional 11.3 cents per gallon for diesel fuel tax. Most of the increases are slated for road repairs. Mic...
