Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 - 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...
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...
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...
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...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] GURNEY, Wis. - Iron County Forestry Department workers have been working to build a boardwalk and viewing deck so visitors can once again fully enjoy seeing the Potato River Falls after the previous viewing deck was washed away in the July 11 storm. While much of Iron County's focus in the aftermath of the storm was on the destruction of Saxon Harbor and the various road washouts throughout the northern part of the county, much of the cliff supporti...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER - Those who bought tickets in the various Fourth of July 50/50 drawings across the Gogebic Range should check their numbers, because while the biggest jackpot in Bessemer has been claimed, the winners of several other local drawings have yet to come forward. Tom Miskovich, who was born and raised in Bessemer but now lives in Wausau, Wis., was the lucky person in possession of ticket No. 06330 that took the $34,861 prize in Bessemer....
