Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon Area Board of Education lost a board member but gained a teacher at its monthly meeting. The board hired Heather Beck as the special education instructor at the school. Beck is a member of the school board and indicated she will resign her seat on the board because of the appointment. The board gave her a special kudos for her service on the board. The board accepted with regret the resignation/retirement of long time teacher Jerry Blake. Blake has nearly 30 years as an elementary t...
By ISABELLE KLEINSCHMIDT [email protected] MERCER, Wis. - There was an Internet Fair held at the Mercer Community Center on Tuesday afternoon. The event was put on by the Gogebic/Iron County Broadband Committee in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin-Extension. The evening kicked off with attendees visiting various booths set-up by area vendors. There were several different companies offering an array of wireless routers and accessories made to help equip potential buyers with...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — Gogebic County Circuit Court Judge Michael Pope will continue to preside over criminal charges and a civil case filed against former Ironwood Township Treasurer Jyl Olson-DeRosso. On Tuesday afternoon, Pope denied a motion by Olson-DeRosso’s attorney, James McKenzie, to step down from hearing the cases. McKenzie argued Pope might be biased because he previously served as attorney for Ironwood Township. Olson-DeRosso is charged with nine felonies, alleging she embezzled money while ser...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - After receiving 16 applicants for the vacant athletic director and Lindquist Student Center manager, the college interviewed three candidates and hired Jacob Bonacci of Hurley for the position as director of the Linquist Student conference center and athletics. Bonacci attended GCC, received a BS in physical education from UW-Superior and a MA in exercise physiology from the College of St. Scholastica. Bonacci will lead a growing athletic...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The Bessemer city council agreed to table the discussion on ordinances regarding the regulation of medical marijuana under the 2016 law until the next meeting so an ordinance regarding odor could be added to the proposed ordinances. The room was full but anyone looking for a decision on marijuana will have to wait. In other notable news, as discussed at a prior meeting, the city council provided a live stream through Facebook of the...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area Schools will continue to offer a variety of sports next year after the board of education approved agreements with four of the district’s self-funded sports teams Monday. The agreements with the girls’ tennis team, cross country team, boys’ soccer team and ski team allow students to compete in the sports for another season. While the agreements were approved, several board members expressed concern regarding the teams running deficits the district is forced to cover. As...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — Lunch prices will increase by 10 cents for Hurley School District students in the fall. The school board agreed to increase the prices across the board, dealing with an $18,000 deficit in the lunch program. Students in grades pre-kindergarten through 5 will now pay $2.35 for lunch, while students in grades 6-12 will be assessed $2.55 a lunch. In other business Monday, the school board learned from district administrator Chris Patritto that the tax levy is not likely to increase much for the n...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON, Mich. — Ontonagon has been selected as one of two initial sites in the U.S. for the construction of an advanced biofuels plant. SynSel Energy, Inc., is partnering with a U.S.-based financier and Lost Bowl Development, LLC, to develop the $300 million biorefinery at the site of the closed Smurfit-Stone Paper Mill in Ontonagon. A second identical $300 million plant will be developed by SynSel in Lumberton, Miss. Each site is expected to produce about 250 direct and indirect jobs. The Smurfit-Stone Pap...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - The warm weather drew a sizable crowd to the Miners Memorial Heritage Park in Ironwood Sunday afternoon, providing plenty of judging opportunities as the final week for the Art in the Miners Park began. "This morning there was nothing, there was nobody here - I don't know if they were all at church or whatever," said Paul Kostelnik, president of the park's board of directors. "But since this afternoon, it's been busy all afternoon. I...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MERCER, Wis. - Pies of virtually every flavor were on the menu Sunday at the Mercer Community Center as the Friends of the Mercer Library held its annual pie social. The purpose of this event - it's not a fundraiser," Friends president Wendy Thiede said. "It's just an event to give back to the community because we have so many wonderful library supporters in this community. It's just something we could do." Thiede said she was pleased with the...
IRONWOOD - Wood chips and sawdust were flying Friday outside Jacquart Fabric Products' Stormy Kromer facility as lumberjacks competed in various races as part of a "Channel the Flannel" Summer Bash. Lumberjacks Logan Alden and Charlie Fenton, with the Hayward-based Timberworks Lumberjack Show, competed in a series of challenges - including ax throwing, a springboard chop, speed climbing and log rolling. Emcee Dave Weatherhead divided the audience into "camps," giving them a lumberjack to root fo...
IRONWOOD - Festival Ironwood opens Wednesday at Depot Park and surrounding locations in downtown Ironwood. Co-chairs Will Corcoran and Keith Johnson visited the Globe Thursday to discuss the event and how the Bergquist family really got the ball rolling 25 years ago and it has grown ever since. Corcoran stressed, "There is something for everyone at the events and most events are free." Johnson added the 30 to 50 volunteers working behind the scenes really allow Festival Ironwood to happen, from...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors Finance Committee on Thursday approved 40-cent raises for county employees next year. After the meeting, county clerk Michael Saari told the Daily Globe the raises were part of the budgeting process the county is beginning for the upcoming fiscal year. The raises will go into effect Jan. 1, 2018. The motion to approve the 40-cent per hour raises was one of several the committee approved following a closed session. The committee also approved a $16-an-ho...
IRONWOOD - With thick fog and cool temperatures, Thursday on the Gogebic Range felt more like a November day. The thermometer stood at 50 degrees at 4:25 p.m. in downtown Ironwood, under cloudy skies. The cool temperatures put a crimper on hay-making operations across the Gogebic Range in a summer in which ample rain has made grass mowing a twice weekly job for many. Barring a further dip in the temperatures, the record low of 38 set for July 13-14 in 1960 wasn't in jeopardy, according to Nation...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — The Western Upper Peninsula Health Department is offering rapid HIV testing. HIV tests are still anonymous and now only take 20 minutes after the finger prick is complete, which allows people to know results before they leave the office, according to Laura Fredrickson, HIV case manager and services director in Marquette. The kits are provided by the state health department, which allows local health departments to offer the testing for free. Kate Beer, health officer with the Hancock o...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - A sand bar, which prevented a ship from unloading material at the Ontonagon dock June 4, has cost the Ontonagon Economic Development Corporation fees and neither the state or federal government seems eager to help the situation, EDC members learned Wednesday. The ship, the Michipicolen - loaded with materials for road construction jobs - was one of four ships expected to unload on the EDC Dock, but after four tries was unable to break through a...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - A two hour planning commission meeting in the council's chambers in Bessemer resulted in the sending to city council three separate recommendations for the council to act on. The commission agreed to send the Bessemer Master Plan, Downtown Development Authority plan and the medical marijuana ordinances to council for action. Patrick Coleman, from North of 45, briefed the commission on the current standing of the Master Plan draft, which...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — An outside expert has found the suspect accused of robbing the Holiday Gas Station in Ironwood in December fit to stand trial. Gogebic County Prosecutor Nick Jacobs told the Daily Globe the expert came fromRockford Ill. to examine Chadd Mathias Andert and reported “Mr. Andert does not meet the statutory criteria for an individual deemed legally insane.” This is the second psychological expert who has deemed Andert, 36, of Ironwood, capable of standing trial for the two felony count...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MERCER, Wis. - Those who fish the Turtle Flambeau Flowage should largely be pleased with the state of its fishery, according to Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologist Zach Lawson. Lawson provided an update on the health of the flowage's fishery and the results of an extensive survey of the water's fish populations at the Pines restaurant in Mercer Tuesday as latest talk in the annual "Conservation on Tap" lecture series....
ONTONAGON — An Ontonagon man was sentenced to prison for drug dealing. In Ontonagon Circuit Court, Judge Michael Pope sentenced Harvey Reaver, 37, to a minimum sentence of six years and maximum of 20 years in prison on drug charges in two separate cases. In both files, Reaver was charged with delivery or manufacture of methamphetamine. He was given credit for 169 days served in jail. In the plea agreement, one charge of delivery or manufacture of meth and one of possession of Adderal were dismissed. Reaver was also ordered to pay $198 in c...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — The Hurley City Council awarded a $1,134,153 contract to Ross Peterson Construction Tuesday for this summer’s utility project. Jamey Francis, of the public works committee, said the city had $30,000 more for the project than it expected in a previous federal grant that can be used for the project. He said that will enable Peterson to run a new water line under U.S. 51. In addition to the base project, the council agreed to fund a U.S. 51 sewer main for $53,960 and $68,255 in Germain Hill wat...
