Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission will consider ratifying a two-year contract with union employees today. Ratification of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 1538 collective bargaining agreement for 2017-19 will be considered in a closed session, followed by action in an open session, if the deal is finalized. Commissioners will also consider approving salary adjustments for non-union employees in the city. A side letter of agreement with Police Officers Association of Michigan regarding scheduling a u...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MERCER, Wis. - A small group of residents turned out at the Mercer Community Center Friday for a listening session with State Rep. Beth Meyers, D-Bayfield, on Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget. Meyers said she has held 17 previous listening sessions around her state Assembly district, with Mercer being the last event planned. She said more than 100 subjects had been brought up by residents in the various meetings, with some common themes being...
By KIM ZECKOVICH Director of Admissions, Marketing and Community Relations, Gogebic Community College IRONWOOD - Gary Gouin, of White Pine, and Mary Beth Barlock of Bergland, were recently honored with the 2017 awards of excellence at Gogebic Community College. Gouin, a welding instructor, received the Award for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching, while Barlock, administrative assistant to the Dean of Business, received the Award for Excellence in Staff Services. The teaching award...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — A Bessemer resident was arrested Thursday in connection with a hit-and-run accident earlier that day. Casey Andrew Gates, 27, is charged with assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder, failure to stop at scene of a personal injury accident and operating a vehicle with a suspended or revoked license. The charges stem from a 911 call the Gogebic County Sheriff’s Department received at 2:17 a.m. Thursday that was “unclear if it was an assault or motor vehicle accid...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Wakefield-Marenisco fourth grade students started with 32 eggs, donated by Karen Kangas from her hens. The class used an incubator donated by Bob Genisot, Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District agriculture instructor. According to backyardchickens.com, they only had to wait 21 days for the chicks to cluck forth. From those 32 eggs, 15 healthy chicks sprouted, and a 16th chick was adopted by the class when Kangas brought it in as an...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] WAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP - Today begins the first joint Wakefield Township-city of Wakefield clean-up. It includes tires and other refuse. The clean-up day is available to township and city residents only and no commercial businesses, according to John Cox, township supervisor. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality provided a grant to the township and city for tire removal. Cox said he expects 3,000 tires to get dropped off and eight Dumpster loa...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — While Thursday’s appearance in Gogebic County District Court made it easier for former Ironwood Township Treasurer Jyl Olson-DeRosso to get out of jail, she now faces a 10th felony charge related to her alleged embezzlement of township funds while in office. Olson-DeRosso, 47, is being held in the Gogebic County Jail on what was a $100,000 cash bond. Her attorney, Jim McKenzie, successfully argued Thursday to have that changed to a $100,000, or 10 percent bond — meaning only $10,0...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — An attorney representing Donald F. Rick filed a motion in Iron County Circuit Court Wednesday to withdraw Rick’s guilty plea in the case of Lisa Waldros’ murder in the March 12, 2016 fire that destroyed the Bear Trap Inn in Saxon. Rick, 45, pleaded guilty to first degree murder December 8, while five additional counts against him were expected to be dismissed but read into the record at his April 13 sentencing. The sentencing was later moved to June 1. Assistant State Public Defen...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Upper Peninsula Kids’ Herman (Winks) Gundlach “Read to Ride” program started Monday. The program is designed to reward reading with the opportunity to win a bicycle for kids aged 6-14 by July 30. They must be residents of Baraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Keweenaw or Ontonagon counties. Kids need to fill out a “Read to Ride” entry form; available in school offices, public libraries, the Copper Country Intermediate School District, Gogebic-Ontonagon ISD, or on the internet at upkids.com....
The National Weather Service continued a flash flood watch through this morning for northern Wisconsin, where some locations had already received from 3 to 7 inches of rain over a 48-hour period. The flood watch pertains to Iron County, Wis., and the Ironwood area. The weather service office in Duluth expanded the watch area on Wednesday to include Bayfield County. It warned an additional 1 to 3 inches of rain was possible. Locations in the White River and Namekagon River watershed basins had received the most rainfall as of Wednesday and they...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - An Ironwood Township man is in custody, following an approximately three-hour standoff Tuesday that resulted in a portion of Vanderhagen Road being temporarily closed to traffic. The Gogebic County Sheriff's Department responded to the property north of Airport Road for a dispute between neighbors at approximately 2 p.m. The call turned into an "altercation" between the resident, 47, and deputies, Gogebic County Sheriff Pete...
BLACK RIVER HARBOR - The Ni-Miikanaake Chapter of the North Country Trail turned out to build trail boardwalk along the Black River last May 10. The group installed 16- and 12-foot lengths of lumber to extend a bridge over a steep, muddy segment of the trail. It added another 40 feet to the 16 feet installed last fall. The work was done on the ravine-side, just above Great Conglomerate Falls in the Black River Harbor area. Cal Kangas, Morgan Grasso, Ric Olson, Dave Kauppi, Char Morgan-Herron,...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Gogebic Range went from high fire danger to flash flood warnings in less than 24 hours. The National Weather Service warned thunderstorms could cause flooding conditions through Thursday morning. Flood watch warnings were issued for Gogebic and Ontonagon counties. Several periods of showers and thunderstorms, some producing heavy rain, were expected. The heaviest rainfall was expected to occur late this afternoon and tonight, with up to 3 inches possible. Law enforcement officials were a...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — The former Ironwood Township treasurer was charged with nine felonies Monday, alleging she embezzled money while serving in office. Jyl Olson-DeRosso, 47, is charged with five counts of forgery, one count of embezzlement by a public official, refusing to turn over records to the successor treasurer, removal and destruction of public records and using public money for her own use. The charges stem from the period from 2011 to 2016, when Olson-DeRosso lost the November election to c...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Once again this year Gogebic Range sixth graders had the opportunity to travel to Little Girl's Point to spend several days at Camp Superior, a tradition that has been taking place since the mid '80s. Ironwood teacher Jason Hofstede - who was one of the primary organizers of this year's camp - said Bessemer and Wakefield-Marenisco students attended the camp Wednesday through Friday, while Ironwood students attended Friday...
BESSEMER - A missing man from Minnesota might be in the Ironwood area. The Gogebic County Sheriff's Department said 21-year-old Jack White hasn't been heard from family members since the beginning of May. White is from Mankato. White is not in any trouble, but family members have requested authorities confirm that he is OK. He may be driving a 2004 silver Ford Focus with Minnesota license plate 999 VEC. White stands about 6 feet, has sandy hair and a white patch in his eyebrow. Anyone with...
By JUSTIN LIBERTOSKI [email protected] HURLEY - The Hurley Area Lioness hosted the 12th annual Brian Nasi Memorial Heart Run/Walk at the Hurley K-12 School early Saturday morning. The theme of the run is "Taking Strides to Build Healthy Hearts" and according to Lioness treasurer Gerry Traczyk, the idea of the race is to promote a healthy family environment for the community. Racers registered in the school cafeteria where there was coffee, cookies and other snacks available before the...
By ISABELLE KLEINSCHMIDT news@yourdailyglobe Four groups came together at the Iron Belle Trail on Saturday morning to plant native shrubs along a portion of the trail. Despite looming clouds, the weather was ideal for the event. The efforts made by Friends of the Iron Belle Trail, the City of Ironwood, The U.S. Forest Service, and the Gogebic Conservation District were the final phase of previous work done to eliminate various non-native invasive plant infestations along the trail. The re-introd...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Smokey the Bear sign out front of the Ottawa National Forest office in Ironwood on Friday listed the fire danger as “Very High.” The Forest Service calls their Smokey the Bear signs, “Adjective ratings,” while the public according to the Forest Service generally refers to the signs as Smokey the Bear signs. Under a very high threat warning, the Forest Service says, “fires start easily from all causes, and immediately after ignition, spread rapily and increase quickly in intensity....
IRONWOOD - Gogebic Community College president Jim Lorenson, in his welcoming remarks before introducing John Lupino, chairperson, for the 83rd commencement in GCC history, said to the assembled students filling the lindquist Center, "Tonight is dedicated to you." The production required to get the right people on stage, the faculty in two lines for the graduates to navigate while shuffling students through this same tunnel consisting of faculty, put the emphasis on the graduates and kept the...
RAMSAY — A fundraising event begun to help defray the costs of shuttling Watersmeet football players to Wakefield-Marenisco over a decade ago has shed another skin and taken on new life. The first change was the initial birth, to help support the Watersmeet players with the initial football co-op so they did not lose football. The next transition was the dropping of Watersmeet and the adding of Bessemer, through which the football club stayed strong and added more supporters. Now with Ironwood joining the Gogebic Miners, Ironwood supporters a...
IRONWOOD - The campaign for the 1st Congressional seat in the 2018 election came to the Gogebic Range Thursday as Democrat Dwight Brady visited Ironwood. Boasting he is the only born-and-raised Yooper to enter the race so far; Brady said he grew up in Schoolcraft County, where his parents bought and renovated an old resort to operate. "It was a great place to grow up, it really was. We had to work hard on weekends to clean cabins and wash boats, and of course there's always lawns to mow and...
