Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — The Bessemer Area School District board of education met Monday after holding a Truth in Taxation meeting to discuss next years millage and debt retirement rate. The board set the Non-Homestead Operating Millage at 17.9694, which according to Chris Bergquist has not changed in years and set the A.D. Johnston debt retirement millage at 2.45. Jim Partanen, briefing for the finance committee highlighted the 2016-17 Food Service budget came i...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — While Ironwood Township’s Board of Review doesn’t meet frequently, there are now options if a board member can’t make one of the three meetings each year, after the township’s board of trustees approved two board alternates. Darrin Kimbler and Sandy Lahtinen were each approved for a two-year term as alternates for the board; which meets in March, July and December. The board’s March meeting is where township tax payers can appeal the amount they are taxed, while the July and De...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - The Women on Target instructional shooting event saw 21 women experience a range of firearm shooting on Saturday at the Superior Range Shooter's Club on Black River Road in the township. Once the shooting commenced, the unmistakable sound of lead pinging steel reverberated across the grounds. The immediate feedback of shooting steel targets and even balloons, makes shooting much more engaging and enjoyable. The day started with an...
By JUSTIN LIBERTOSKI [email protected] MERCER, Wis. - The rain held off for the Woods and Blooms Garden Club rededication ceremony at the Century Pines Park in Mercer. Beverly Johnson, a member of the Woods and Blooms Garden Club, described the history of the park Saturday. The park originally started as part of the Mercer Downtown Development Project and a grant was received in April of 2005 to begin work on the park. Beverly's husband, Roger, drew up the plan for the park. The Woods and...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] Fewer people are unemployed in Gogebic County in the past five months, but statistics show there are also fewer employed. According to the Michigan Civilian Labor Force, unemployment in the county in May numbered 350. That is 50 fewer than the 400 unemployed in January. A closer look at the labor force statistics, however, show there are fewer people employed in Gogebic County in those five months. In January total employment reached 6,250 but in May those numbers fell to 5,900, a drop of 350. The civilian...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Daniel Gerald Ferguson, 26, an escapee from the Gogebic County Jail in Bessemer on Monday, was captured Friday afternoon, ending an intensive manhunt. The sheriff's office released information it received a tip Ferguson was hiding in a residence in the city of Bessemer where he was apprehended without incident Friday around 2 p.m. Sightings with Ferguson's ex-girlfriend and other possible sightings were described on the Gogebic Cou...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission will act on awarding bids for demolishing two eyesore structures on Monday. The demolitions are part of the continuing Hardest Hit grant program that has allowed the city to remove dozens of eyesores in the past several years. On Monday, commissioners will consider approving bids to Snow Country Contracting, Inc., for the demolition and removal of structures at 213 Greenbush St. for $9,308 and 330 King St. for $12,990. A third bid for razing a commercial s...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] While Iron County again had the worst unemployment rate in Wisconsin in May, there was substantial improvement in the job numbers. The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development reported this week the unemployment rate in Iron County improved from 7.6 percent in April to 5.3 percent in May. A year ago it was 7.1 percent. Ashland County improved from 4.7 percent in April to 3.8 percent in May. Vilas County went from 5.4 percent to 3.4 percent and neighboring Oneida County dropped from 4 percent to...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Another day, more possible sightings, yet the search continues for the inmate who escaped from the Gogebic County Jail Monday night. Daniel Ferguson, 26, escaped the jail sometime after 8:45 p.m. Monday, according to a Gogebic County Sheriff's Department Facebook post at approximately 9:33 p.m. that night. Thursday's search effort included the area around U.S. 2 and Powderhorn Road after there was a reported sighting of a man wea...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — Ironwood Township has filed a lawsuit in Gogebic County Circuit Court against former township treasurer Jyl Olson-DeRosso. The 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. Township treasurer Steve Boyd told the Daily Globe this number could fluctuate up or down as a forensic accountant completes a review of the township’s finances and more information is uncovered. Boyd also clar...
ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon County Board of Commissioners will ask the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for emergency dredging of the Ontonagon Harbor. Scott Roehm told the board a lake freighter loaded with materials for road construction was unable to enter the harbor and unload because of a shoal 50 yards out in Lake Superior at the river’s mouth. Roehm noted last fall the Corps dredged the west half of the river, but not the east. He said the Ontonagon County Economic Development Corporation depends on fees from unloading at its dock. Off...
WASHINGTON - The idea was simple, if not brilliant - once the National World War II Memorial opened in Washington, so began an effort to have as many aging WWII veterans see it as possible. "What better way to honor the service of what many have called the Greatest Generation?" said Mike Thompson, co-founder of the northcentral Wisconsin's Never Forgotten Honor Flight. It is one of 133 Honor Flights across the country that were formed to provide a one-day quick trip to the nation's capital -... Full story
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - As nightfall approached Wednesday, the search continued for an escaped inmate from the Gogebic County Jail, despite two sightings in the Powderhorn area in as many days. Daniel Ferguson, 26, escaped sometime after 8:45 p.m., Monday, according to a Gogebic County Sheriff's Department Facebook post at approximately 9:33 p.m., that night. Wednesday's search effort centered around Big Powderhorn Mountain, after there were two...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — A 48-year-old Ironwood woman was ordered released from jail Wednesday morning after serving 71 days of a one-year sentence for identity theft. Iron County Judge Patrick Madden cited new information in the case from two doctors in modifying the sentence of Wendy Wuorinen. Defense attorney James McKenzie successfully argued that Wuorinen should be released early and Madden granted McKenzie’s motion. McKenzie said information about Wuorinen’s mental condition “was not really known by the court a...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BRUCE CROSSING — Finnish Ambassador Kirsti Kauppi is coming to Bruce Crossing Sunday for the third day of Juhannus 2017, a three day celebration of midsummer. Friday starts the fun in Askel, Baraga County. Saturday the party is moving to Hancock on the Finlandia University campus, where Kauppi will raise the Finnish flag near the midsummer pole, or Juhannussalko. Sunday in Bruce Crossing, the Settler’s Co-operative becomes ground zero for Juhannus and is scheduled to show a premier of a doc...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY - A Saxon, Wis., woman who aided her then boyfriend in attempting to hide evidence in the 2016 murder-arson at the Bear Trap Inn entered a no contest plea Tuesday in Iron County Court. Jessica M. Carli, 42, will be sentenced on Aug. 23 for aiding a felon by hiding evidence. Iron County Judge Patrick Madden found Carli guilty after her no contest plea and ordered a pre-sentence investigation. Carli was involved in concealing evidence connected to...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - The Ontonagon County Court room Tuesday was full of supporters for the installation of an Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS III) at the Ontonagon County Airport. As a result, when the final vote was tallied, the Ontonagon County Commissioners voted 4-1 to support the installation and resulting upkeep of the system. The federal share of the project would be $165,000 with the five percent of the required county total of $26,184 to come from...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — Iron County will try for yet another broadband expansion project, Iron County Finance Committee approved moving forward with a grant application for the state’s 2018 Broadband Expansion program. Once again, the county’s project will focus on the southern part of Iron County — this time proposing the construction of 150-foot towers on sites near Lake of the Falls and Spider Lake in the town of Mercer. The total project is expected to be $134,451; with the county seeking an approxi...
BESSEMER - An inmate escaped the Gogebic County Jail Monday night. Daniel Ferguson, 26, escaped sometime after 8:45 p.m., according to a Gogebic County Sheriff's Department Facebook post at approximately 9:33 p.m. Ferguson was last seen heading northwest on Moore Street, according to the department, wearing black and white jail striped pants and jail orange shirt but no shoes. Ferguson was in jail on an operating under the influence charge and a probation violation warrant from Wisconsin. D...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission on Monday took care of some Phase 4 sewer-water project business so a loan closing can begin. Meeting in a special session, resolutions and contracts for the summer’s infrastructure project were approved. The commission approved a resolution for a U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development loan of $2,701,000 for the water project and $422,000 for the sewer work. City manager Scott Erickson noted the $422,000 loan will be matched by a $1,263,000 federal gra...
IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - It did not take long Monday for the divergent groups on the Bessemer city council to draw up sides. The council and audience were united in pledging their allegiance to the flag, but it quickly began dissolving after that. In a vote of 3-2, Kathy Whitburn, John Frello, and Al Gaiss voted against moving 17 pieces of public correspondence and the police contract reports for April and May, all filed under the "Consent Agenda," over to the...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — For a second year in a row; the Ironwood Area Schools quiz bowl team competed in a national tournament, taking 12th place in a tournament in Chicago Monday. Ironwood was among the over 200 teams from around the country that competed in the three-day event, coach Steve Boyd said — with all the teams having won local tournaments to earn their place. “The requirements to get into (the tournament) is, you have to finish first in a state or regional tournament,” Boyd said. Each team competed in at least six matches, with a 4-2 r...
