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  • Lumberjack shows 'Channel the Flannel'

    Richard Jenkins|Jul 15, 2017

    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...

  • Festival Ironwood to celebrate 25 years

    IAN MINIELLY|Jul 15, 2017

    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...

  • Finance committee approves raises for Iron employees

    Jul 14, 2017

    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...

  • Warm week ahead as fog leaves area

    Jul 14, 2017

    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...

  • Health department offers HIV testing at no charge

    Jul 14, 2017

    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...

  • Beauty of Buzzards

    Jul 14, 2017

  • Funds unavailable for Ontonagon harbor dredging

    Jul 13, 2017

    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...

  • Bessemer planning commission makes recommendations to city council

    Jul 13, 2017

    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...

  • Holiday robbery suspect ruled competent

    Jul 13, 2017

    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...

  • Tiny Tots

    Jul 12, 2017

  • 'Conservation on Tap' talks Flambeau fishery

    Jul 12, 2017

    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....

  • Meth dealer sentenced in Ontonagon County

    Jul 12, 2017

    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...

  • Council approves final contract for utility project

    Jul 12, 2017

    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...

  • Koski remembered one year after flood

    Ralph Ansami|Jul 11, 2017

    MONTREAL, Wis. - One year after 12 inches of rain in four hours destroyed Saxon Harbor, the Montreal man who lost his life in the storm is being remembered. City of Montreal Mayor Todd Haeger on Monday declared Mitch Koski Week. "I would ask that during this week, think about your friends, neighbors and find a way to help better the community," Haeger said. "That's what Mitch would have done. On July 11, 2016, there was a call for help, and Mitch answered." Koski, 56, was killed when his truck...

  • American Symbol

    Jul 11, 2017

  • More charges brought in Gogebic jail escape case

    Richard Jenkins|Jul 11, 2017

    BESSEMER — Two more charges have been brought against Daniel Ferguson, stemming from his multi-day escape from the Gogebic County Jail. Ferguson, 26, was arraigned Friday on two felony counts of breaking and entering a building with intent to commit larceny. Gogebic County Prosecutor Nick Jacobs said the charges, which each carry a potential maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, involve two separate condominiums on Powdervale Drive in Ironwood Township. Ferguson is already facing a felony charge of escape while awaiting trial for a felony ...

  • Visitors from Minnesota, Illinois soak up areas's natural wonders

    Jul 10, 2017

    By ISABELLE KLEINSCHMIDT [email protected] IRONWOOD - Locals and visitors enjoy staying at the many campgrounds throughout the area during the summer months. Curry Park in Ironwood is a destination for some, and a stopping point for others. Deven of northern Minnesota spent the weekend camping at Curry Park with her fiance and two children Dresden and Cash. They plan to move to the area, and are enjoying some of the natural wonders it has to offer. "I like it here a lot, its really...

  • Floydian Slip rocks HIT Saturday

    Jul 10, 2017

    By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - The stage Saturday was bathed in a tie dye glow of seventies era guitar riffs and sounds with modern instrumentation and lighting. Floydian Slip, a band from the Southshore that patterns itself after the Grateful Dead, with mixtures of blues, Reggae, rock, and improvisation. The band opened Saturday night with the Olaf Kirsten singing the first couple of songs in his higher pitched voice, before handing the mic to their bassist, Scott...

  • UW Extension office offers food preservation classes

    Jul 10, 2017

    By ISABELLE KLEINSCHMIDT [email protected] The University of Wisconsin Extension office will be offering a Food Preservation course during July and August. The course consists of two classes for the corresponding areas. With two being held in Hurley and the same two being offered in Mercer. The course instructor, Iron and Ashland County Family Living Educator, Heidi Ungrodt will be doing demonstrations of two different canning techniques. The theme of the course will be “Sweet & Savory in a Jar.” For the first course, Ungrodt will be dem...

  • SUNDAY LAKE

    Jul 8, 2017

  • Bessemer Fourth of July goes off without a hitch

    Ian Minielly|Jul 8, 2017

    BESSEMER — Linda Nelson said the Fourth of July events in Bessemer went off very well. The weather did not result in any cancellations or delays, even though they had to move one event inside, planned as a contingency. Nelson said the 50-50 sales were “incredible.” The sales opened Tuesday, June 27, and the tent stayed busy. The fireworks committee tried to keep at least two people in the tent for sales, but at times had as many as five to six people making 50-50 sales. The events brought out a significant number of children, which Nelson compa...

  • Ironwood begins First Friday effort

    Ralph Ansami|Jul 8, 2017

    IRONWOOD - Threatening skies cleared in time for Ironwood's initial First Friday downtown promotional effort. After Friday afternoon events at Deport Park, people headed downtown for the evening hours to shop and listen to a one-man concert in the Art Park. The performer, David Paul Martin (Niemi), writes his own music, including an ode to Bald Mountain and a song about driftwood on the Lake Superior beach. He's the son of Paul and Linda Niemi, who are area natives and have a home near the Saxon...

  • George Washington visits Mercer

    Jul 7, 2017

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MERCER, Wis. - George Washington visited Mercer Thursday to talk about his life. Re-enactor David Best, who is from Indianapolis but has property on Pike Lake in Mercer, portrayed the nation's first president to a crowd in the Mercer Community Center. Speaking in the first person, Best talked about Washington's life - from the beginning of his military career in the lead-up to the French and Indian War and his marriage to Martha, through the...

  • Change of guard held at White Pine Rotary Club meeting

    Jul 7, 2017

    By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - The changing of the guard was held Wednesday at the Ontonagon-White Pine Rotary meeting. President Jim Jessup presented the gavel to new president Janet Wolfe. Wolfe, a Rotary member in Houghton for about 10 years, moved to the Ontonagon Rotary upon retirement from the U.P. Power Company. Wolfe said she has a few goals for the Ontonagon Rotary in the next year. "I would like us to work for a 10 percent increase in membership," Wolfe said. The...

  • Counterclaim filed in township embezzlement case

    Jul 7, 2017

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — There are now multiple lawsuits in the Ironwood Township embezzlement case after Jim McKenzie, representing former Ironwood Township treasurer Jyl Olson-DeRosso, filed a counterclaim Thursday to the lawsuit Ironwood Township filed against Olson-DeRosso. The township’s suit, filed June 15, is seeking “in excess of $1.2 million in damages” it says were the result of Olson-DeRosso’s alleged embezzlement while treasurer. The counterclaim doesn’t specify a damage amount, rather asking the...

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