Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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RAMSAY — A fundraising event begun to help defray the costs of shuttling Watersmeet football players to Wakefield-Marenisco over a decade ago has shed another skin and taken on new life. The first change was the initial birth, to help support the Watersmeet players with the initial football co-op so they did not lose football. The next transition was the dropping of Watersmeet and the adding of Bessemer, through which the football club stayed strong and added more supporters. Now with Ironwood joining the Gogebic Miners, Ironwood supporters a...
IRONWOOD - The campaign for the 1st Congressional seat in the 2018 election came to the Gogebic Range Thursday as Democrat Dwight Brady visited Ironwood. Boasting he is the only born-and-raised Yooper to enter the race so far; Brady said he grew up in Schoolcraft County, where his parents bought and renovated an old resort to operate. "It was a great place to grow up, it really was. We had to work hard on weekends to clean cabins and wash boats, and of course there's always lawns to mow and...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] HURLEY — Northwood’s Manufacturing will host its fourth annual open house today from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Hurley K-12 School. Woods instructor Roger Peterson said the event is a great way for parents, businesses and the community at large to see their operation in action and learn more about what they have to offer. NM is more than just a school shop program, according to Peterson, who works alongside metals instructor Jake Hostettler. The metals department deals with machine tooling and welding...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The American Red Cross set up a blood donation clinic in the Wakefield gym on Thursday. According to the Red Cross, they come to this area every three to four weeks during the school year and are planning on coming back July 19 to the Ironwood area. The Red Cross said they typically receive about 24 units or pints of blood when they set up in one of the area schools. They said they drew 60 pints at the Memorial Building in Ironwood on...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The Community Mental Health facility in Wakefield brought together a group of adults to learn about youth mental health issues and how to identify when there is a problem verses when a behavior is just being young. Philip Gardiepy-Hefner, training coordinator for Northpointe Behavioral Healthcare Systems out of Kingsford, visited CMH Wednesday for the fifteenth time to provide for a mental health first aid class. While Wednesday's class...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — Additional charges have been brought against an Ironwood man arrested over the weekend. Daniel Allan Erickson, 28, had been arrested at approximately 1 a.m. Sunday on a charge of possession of burglar’s tools — a felony with a possible maximum punishment of up to 10 years in prison. On Wednesday, a Gogebic Iron Area Narcotics Team spokesman announced additional charges against Erickson. The new charges are the result of the continued investigation into Erickson, according to GIANT...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners approved three resolutions to support three separate improvement projects at the Gogebic-Iron County Airport at their meeting Wednesday evening. The bulk of the funds for each project will come from federal funds, with the remaining local portion split between Gogebic County and Iron County, Wis. The three projects include: — $625,000 tarmac replacement, with the local portion at $15,625; — $8,889 for airport awareness/advertising, local porti...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The discovery of an active eagle’s nest in a tree on the planned site means Saxon Harbor’s campground will need to be moved somewhere else, Iron County Forestry and Parks Administrator Eric Peterson told the county’s forestry committee Tuesday. “So now we’re not quite back to square one, but what we are doing is we are evaluating other options and alternatives,” Peterson said. “Essentially, what we are going to do is, we’re going to work our way through these other options.” Accordi...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] HURLEY - The Hurley Lioness will host the 12th annual Brian Nasi Memorial Heart Walk-Run Saturday morning. From the beginning, organizers have claimed the event is a great opportunity for everyone to get out and enjoy the outdoors, but most importantly, to exercise their heart and stay healthy and strong. "It's all about healthy living," said co-race director and Lioness member Ricky Kelly. "We're trying to promote running in youth, so they start...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] HURLEY — The junior varsity covered the Hurley city council meeting and normal Daily Globe reporter Ralph Ansami’s absence due to vacation was noted by the council. The city council was surprisingly jovial and even has nicknames for all the members on the council, which was a surprise to discover. The council agreed to award Ross Peterson the 2017 utility project in the amount of $906,219, contingent on the receipt of funds from the Army Corps of Engineers and a follow on financial review by Stacey W...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - Residents of Bessemer are going to wake up today to the nearly complete removal of a blighted structure on South Sophie Street. The structure at 206 S. Sophie Street has been before the council for years and finally was slotted for removal Monday. Paul Luppino, son of Angelo Luppino, said they expected to have everything gone by today and use Wednesday to fill in the remaining hole. Luppino said the tear down was basically a two man job....
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Expressing concern about the loss of local control, the Ironwood Township Board of Trustees agreed Monday to send Gov. Rick Snyder a letter in opposition to a proposed law changing the way small copper mines are regulated. Supervisor Steve Boyd initially brought up concerns about the loss of local control in SB 129 — which changes the way smaller, native copper mines are regulated — saying that while the the most recent version of the bill allows for water quality monit...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — Stakeholders from various groups interested in the rebuilding of Saxon Harbor met Thursday with engineers involved in the harbor’s design process to discuss what they would like to see included in the new harbor. “(These sessions are) about gathering information … so we understand what the community wants before we put pencil to paper. That’s critical to our design process,” Jason Stangland, with the firm Smithgroup JJR, told the Daily Globe after one of the sessions. The meetings we...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] KIMBALL, Wis. - Regardless of one's favorite type of pie, there was a decent chance it was available at the Kimball Community Center Saturday as the Kimball Homemakers held its annual pie social and craft show. The pie social has been a staple for the organization for the least three to four decades; raising funds for a variety of charitable causes, organizer Mary Smith said. "All of our funds go back into the community," she said. While the group h...
IRONWOOD — A man was arrested early Sunday morning in Ironwood on a burglary related charge. The man, 28 — who authorities are declining to identify until his arraignment Monday — was arrested on the charge of possession of burglar’s tools at 1 a.m. Sunday. Gogebic County Prosecutor Nick Jacobs authorized a warrant for the 10-year felony, according to a Gogebic Iron Area Narcotics Team press release. The man recently moved to the area from Stevens Point, Wis., according to the release, and is being held at the Gogebic County Sheriff’s Departmen...
IRONWOOD - Ironwood's Galaxies may be entering Michigan's Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame. The four-man group that performed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when rock was young, is in the running for the hall in online voting. Of the four members, only Andy Abraham, 75, of Hurley, is still alive. Other Galaxies included Bernie Michelli, Danny Sullivan and Greg Winn. Danny Sullivan Jr., of Bessemer, said the Galaxies cut two records. He said a display on the Galaxies can be viewed at the Iron...
HURLEY - The Hurley Lions Club, with 40 to 50 members, is active in providing eyeglasses to the second and third world. To do this, the club maintains an old mailbox it painted purple and stationed in Giovanoni's store for people to drop off old eyeglasses. Smaller containers are stationed around the area for collection at other locations, including some eye doctor offices. Dave Traczyk, a Lions Club member since 1979, said each club decides which projects to align itself with. The Hurley club...
BESSEMER — An Ashland man was remanded to district court Tuesday, the third co-defendant to be remanded in a Gogebic County drug case. Corey Allan Tutor, 34, was facing one 10-year felony count of possession of methamphetamine and a misdemeanor charge of disorderly person-loitering about an illegal business, however Gogebic County Prosecutor Nick Jacobs said the testing of evidence in the case didn’t bear out the initial charges. Jacobs said he plans to file amended charges against Tutor, replacing the meth charge with one count of use of cocai...
GILE, Wis. - Most fishermen are used to seeing the unfortunate sight of strands of monofilament fishing line in the water and surrounding brush, a sight the Friends of the Gile Flowage hopes becomes less common. It has recently installed PVC-pipe fishing line recycling units at boat launches around the flowage. As the monofilament isn't biodegradable, it can pose a hazard to the flowage's animals, according to Cathy Techtmann, FOG president. "As a high-density plastic, it can persist in the...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Two Luther L. Wright students are putting the wood shop to good use. Brandon Nielsen and Donny Jarvenpaa, both 17, are active in Alison Stehlik's shop room. Stehlik is the daughter of a shop teacher, so before wondering what a female is doing teaching shop, remember it is 2017 and her dad ran a shop class and she did the natural thing to do in following in his footsteps. Besides, who does not like the smell of cut wood? Nielsen and...
SILVER CITY — Experienced sawyers with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources are heading to Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park to help clean up downed trees from last week’s snow and ice storm. On April 26-27, higher elevations at the park received up to an inch of ice, which was then covered by two to four inches of snow. Numerous trees were weighed down and weakened by the thick coating of ice and snow. With 40 to 50 miles of the park’s roughly 90 miles of hiking trails assessed so far, 17 miles of trails are in “extr...
