Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By ISABELLE KLEINSCHMIDT [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield City Council held a public hearing during their regularly scheduled meeting on Monday night. The hearing addressed the 2017-2018 budget as well as the .44 percent increase in property taxes. The council heard from members of the public, primarily regarding clarification of the tax increase. Paul Anderson of Coleman Engineering was present at the meeting to update the council on the Maria Lane Street Improvement project. There was a bid from Angelo Luppino, Inc. to c...
By ISABELLE KLEINSCHMIDT [email protected] MERCER - Despite the intermittent rain, there was a large turnout for this year's 11th annual Lupine Junefest at Carow Park in Mercer. The bike tour winds through some of the area's most pristine back-country roads scattered with the iconic purple lupine flowers. There are four route options for bikers to choose from, 10, 26, 28 and 50 miles. After enjoying the ride, bikers could relax and enjoy snacks and beverages in the pavilion while...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] WAKEFIELD — Nanette’s Knits and Gifts sponsored an educational fiber demonstration Saturday in Wakefield by inviting three fiber groups to join her for some outdoor knitting on World Wide Knits in Public day. The fiber knitting groups came together from Woodruff, Presque Isle, and of course Wakefield. Nanette Paquette owns seven alpacas, becoming an alpaca owner in 2009. Paquette shears and turns their fur into yarn, which she sells in her store. Acc...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD — Floydian Slip, founded in 1999, with members who have known each other and have been playing together since as early as 1982 is coming to the Historic Ironwood Theatre July 8. The theater’s website says the doors and bar will open at 6:30 p.m., while the show starts at 7:30 p.m. Advanced ticket costs are $15 for adult general admission and $5 for students. Add $3 for tickets purchased at the door on the day of the show. Andy Noyes, guitarist, says despite the name, they are not a Pink Floy...
By ISABELLE KLEINSCHMIDT news@yourdailyglobe WATERSMEET - The Watersmeet Township School District held a commencement ceremony for the class of 2017 on Friday night. The graduates, dressed in their class colors of blue and silver, took their places on stage as the school band played "Pomp & Circumstance." Graduate Keaton Caudill gave a welcome speech to the audience. "For the last 13 years, we have waited for this day to arrive. Although it seems like a lifetime, we actually have our whole...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — Two public hearings on garages will precede Monday’s regular Ironwood City Commission meeting. At 5:20 p.m., the commission will hear comments on a variance request for an addition to a garage at 723 Hill St. At 5:25 p.m., comments will be received on a variance request for a new garage within the lot line setback at 121 W. Arch St. Commissioners will act on both requests after receiving the comments. The two public hearings will be followed by a third one on the fiscal year 2017-’18 propo...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre is coming back to Ironwood the week of June 26 for auditions and practice, starting at 9 a.m., with the main attraction happening on Saturday, July 1, at 2 and 6 p.m. According to Jeramy Day with the PFCT, the traveling shows have been happening for 31 years. The theater is up to 11 traveling teams, comprised of a professional actor and director duo responsible for their show. The theater is always hiring and puts its new hires through a rigorous wee...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] Chip sealing projects costing $5 million are under way in Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties. The Michigan Department of Transportation said work started Wednesday on U.S. 45, M-28 and M-64, with the closest towns being Bergland, Bruce Crossing, Marenisco, Silver City and White Pine. The completion date is estimated at Aug. 22. MDOT is investing $5 million to chip seal 52 miles of roadway in the two counties. Segments to be chip sealed are: —M-64, south from M-28 to U.S. 2. —M-64, north from M-28 to the...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Thursday evening brought together a community of folks with a common interest and different zip codes. The Gogebic-Iron Airport hosted the season's first fly-in. Fly-ins are for pilots to get some time in the air, meet other like minded folk, eat some chow, and even exchange airplane parts on occasion, according to Mike Harma, airport manager. From June to September, the Flying Hamburger Social moves between airports, but it was o...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Gogebic Range Health Foundation, formed with the purchase of Grand View Hospital by Aspirus, is hosting an annual fund-raiser Sunday, June 25, to benefit CPR education and enable the purchase of defibrillators. The fund-raiser costs $25 per person and is being held at the Cold Iron Brewery in downtown Ironwood, with doors opening at 3 p.m. The under 18 crowd is free. The GRHF goal is to match one-for-one defibrillators purchased by...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The Bessemer planning commission met Wednesday evening to discuss whether they would recommend adoption of the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act of 2016 and they voted 3-1 to recommend to the city council adoption of the ordinance within the western zoned industrial area only. Ultimate authority rests with the city council to accept, modify, or reject the recommendation of the commission. Members of the commission voting in favor o...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — After Donald Rick was sentenced for the murder of Lisa Waldros in the March 2016 fire that destroyed the Bear Trap Inn in Saxon, Assistant Attorney General Richard Dufour met with family members to discuss their concerns after an emotional day in court. That has been standard practice for Dufour all through the ordeal and his devotion to the case and compassion has not been lost on family members. Rick, 45, a Hurley native, was sentenced by Iron County Judge Patrick J. Madden on Thursday to l...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — An Ironwood woman was sentenced to probation and time served for two misdemeanor drug charges Monday in Gogebic County District Court. Rebecca Jade Gibbons, 22, was sentenced to 18 months probation and 19 days credit for jail time previously served on the charges of disorderly person-loitering about an illegal business and use of cocaine. The charges relate to a Gogebic-Iron Area Narcotics Team; Drug Enforcement Agency and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms search of a Bessemer h...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] SAXON, Wis. - While the marina at Saxon Harbor isn't expected to re-open until May 2019, following its destruction during the rain and flooding of the July 2016 storm, a pair of boats were docked there Monday. The two boats - owned by Mark Zarzyski and Shane Wyzlick - were part of a group of four boats that were purchased in Ohio and sailed through the Sault Ste. Marie locks to the Northwoods. Zarzyski and Wyzlick - along with the other owners,...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — The Gogebic Miners co-operative football program, consisting of Wakefield-Marenisco, Bessemer, and Ironwood, officially has a head coach and three assistant coaches. The school board agreed to hire Mark Mazzon as the new head coach Tuesday. Assisting Mazzon are Richard Matrella, Dave Lundin, and Joe Kuklinski, while a fifth football coaching position was left unfilled in the event enough kids turn out to warrant a fifth hire. The Bessemer school board also approved membership of the M...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission Tuesday awarded the bid for this summer’s sewer-water project to Ruotsala Construction, LLC, of Ironwood, at $3,378,980. Five bids were received on May 25 from construction contractors for the project. All met the bidding requirements. Ruotsala bid $3,218,303, but the city commission on Tuesday agreed to a change order of $160,678 to increase the amount of the original bid. U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development project budgets are broken down into wat...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] SAXON, Wis. - It would typically be the time of the year for the annual Saxon Harbor Boating Club's weekend fishing tournament on Lake Superior, with the campgrounds filled. But there is no campground and there will be no tourney this year following last summer's devastating flood. The captain of the winners of last year's tourney, Dan (Jumbo) Talkowski, said the boating club was invited to participate in a tourney in Washburn this year, but declined....
By RICHARD JENKINS rjenkins@yourdailyglobe. HURLEY - The Iron County University of Wisconsin-Extension office's summer events calendar begins today with the first day of its Trailblazers program. In addition to the bike rides exploring the region, Youth Development Educator Neil Klemme, said the fifth through eighth grade trailblazers will also take several canoe trips. "We've added a lot of canoeing into it this year, we want to get kids out doing more than just biking - (we want them to)...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — The Bessemer city council, at city manager Charly Loper’s request, provided a public evaluation of her performance over the past six months at Monday’s meeting. Using a scale between 1 and 5, with 1 being the low and 5 being the high, Loper came in overall at 3.96. Loper was evaluated on 9 different sets of over-arching criteria, with each criteria having multiple levels of sub-criteria. Loper’s scores included: —Organizational Management 4.25 —Fiscal management 3.6 —Intermedia...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — It has been nine years since a lake ship unloaded cargo on the Ontonagon dock. That hiatus was to have ended Sunday as the Lake freighter Michipicoten was scheduled to pull into the harbor and unload 16,500 tons of road construction materials. Over the past nine years, the state of Michigan has spent money on studies to revitalize the harbor. Last fall, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took depth soundings in the harbor but have not yet returned this year. Lost Bowl Development — owner of the...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] UPSON, Wis. - A group of hikers explored the area around Wren Falls in Iron County Saturday, as the Heritage Chapter of the North Country Trail Association led a guided hike to mark National Trails Day. Beginning where the trail crosses Casey Sag Road in Upson, Joe Kravetz and Bethany Thomas led a group of 12 hikers to the falls. In addition to Wren Falls, the roughly 3.5- to 4-mile hike featured stops at a scenic overlook offering a view of the...
