Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — For the first time in four years, the state equalized valuation for Gogebic County has increased. The 2017 valuation of $665,029,752 accepted by the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday is up 1.0796 percent over the $657,927,007 of 2016. The following are the valuations of the municipalities approved on Wednesday: Bessemer — $31,318,292, 4.71 percent of county total: Ironwood — $108,852,130, 16.37 percent; Wakefield — $27,669,715, 4.16 percent; Bessemer Township — $46,458,9...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] An ice and snow storm swept through parts of northern Wisconsin and the western Upper Peninsula Tuesday evening, causing scattered power outages through Wednesday. The cold, wet weather was expected to continue through tonight. The Superior and Bayfield areas started getting snow or freezing rainfall Tuesday night. Rain turned to ice on the trees across the Gogebic Range by Wednesday morning as the thermometer hung around 32 degrees. The snow and...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] The first year Gogebic Range (Hurley-Bessemer) Robotics Team left Tuesday at midnight for the robotics championships in St. Louis. According to Van Hill, the team’s schedule is packed, with very little time not dedicated to the competition, but they do have one scheduled non-robotics event planned. The team carved out time Friday to catch the St. Louis Cardinals host the Cincinnati Reds, weather permitting. The qualification match schedule for the team, going by number 6613, in the Curie Division i...
IRONWOOD - The Entrepreneurial Center for Innovation and Development at Gogebic Community College will host Olympic Gold Medalist Billy Demong. He is executive director for USA Nordic Sports. Demong will be in Ironwood on Wednesday, May 3, to provide multiple programs to the Gogebic Range. He grew up in the Adirondack Mountains and began ski jumping in the Lake Placid Ski Club. A cross country skier as soon as he could walk, he added the longer skis when he was 8 and fell in love with the sport...
BESSEMER — The first day of the trial of an Ironwood woman accused of fleeing the police ended Tuesday with both sides resting their cases in Gogebic County Circuit Court, leaving just closing arguments and deliberations prior to the verdict. Gina Marie Ransanici, 41, of Aspen Street, is facing one felony count of third degree fleeing a police officer; and two misdemeanors — reckless driving and operating a vehicle without a license on her person. The felony carries a potential maximum sentence of five years in prison, while the mis...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Chicken: It can be an insult, an egg layer, a flavoring and a meal. According to Kathy Makela, fourth grade teacher at the Wakefield-Marenisco School, her class is taking on a new project this spring - the incubation of eggs and the birthing of chicks. Karen Kangas, who raises chickens; and Angie Libertoski, parent of a fourth grade student, brooded and hatched a plan to expose the kids to raising chickens. Kangas visited the fourth grade...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Township residents will once again be able to pay certain township bills automatically, after the board of trustees passed a resolution accepting electronic payments Monday. The electronic payments will be able to used for sewer and water payments, according to information presented at the meeting, as well as garbage payments. The township previously offered this service, but eliminated it last fall. Township residents have been inquiring about it, according to township o...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission learned Monday that bids for the city’s Hardest Hit demolition project will be opened on Thursday. City manager Scott Erickson said the bids will likely come before the city commission for action at the next commission meeting. On Monday, commissioners released a lien on property at 324 E. Oak St. so a house can be torn down there as part of the summer project. Earlier in the meeting, city code enforcement officer Jason Alonen noted 136 blighted structures in...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - Volunteers from both Ironwood and Bessemer united for a Saturday clean-up event on the Iron Belle Trail as part of the worldwide Earth Day celebration. Around 20 people showed up at Depot Park in Ironwood and got their hands dirty for the trail clean-up and an equal number of people gathered at the Bessemer end of the non-motorized trail. The volunteers said they were pleased that a day earlier, students from both Ironwood and Bessemer had...
KIMBALL, Wis. - A crowd gathered at Little Finland Sunday to hear Ernie Korpela's presentation on Finnish history, just one of the events Little Finland is holding to mark the centennial celebration of Finnish independence. Korpela, who was born and raised in Wakefield and now lives in Cornucopia, Wis., began by going over his family's history - including his father in law, who managed a Finnish bread co-op in Superior Wis., that supplied many of Gogebic Range's co-op stores. He said that like...
IRONWOOD — Regional Hospice is beginning a six-week grief support group, starting in May, at the Aspirus Ironwood clinic. The group will meet from 1 to 2:30 p.m., every Monday between May 1 and June 12 in the clinic’s education room. “When a person who is a part of our lives dies, understanding the uniqueness of this loss can guide us in finding the support we will need,” a hospice spokesperson said in a release announcing the group. “Sometimes aspects of our backgrounds will affect our grieving. We all belong to varied ethnic and religious...
WAKEFIELD - Students across the Gogebic Range, including in Ironwood and Wakefield-Marenisco, wanted to get out and make a difference in their community for Earth Day on Friday. While Earth Day is today, school officials used the day before, with classes in session, to mark the occasion. In Ironwood, the district's second and sixth graders partnered up to walk the city's portion of the Iron Belle Trail, cleaning up garbage they found there. The trash included everything from cigarette butts and...
IRONWOOD - Gogebic Community College students and staff used a somewhat unconventional way to move one of the college's semi trucks Friday, pulling it with a rope, tug-of-war-style, in preparation for an upcoming fundraiser. "The pull we did today was a test. We wanted to see No. 1 could it be done, and No. 2 how many people would it take to pull the semi 20 feet," Janie Williams, an administrative assistant for the college's allied health program, said. "Now that we know that, what we'll try...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] MARQUETTE - Northern Michigan University officials believe the effort to provide broadband internet access to rural communities across the Upper Peninsula could become a national model. "Michigan and the U.P. can lead the way," NMU President Fritz Erickson said of the plan for the university to build an Educational Access Network across the U.P. over the next two years. NMU will receive a $6.5 million Investment Fund Award from the Michigan Strategic Fu...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Gogebic Range Solid Waste Management Authority is restricting what can be recycled in its dumpsters available for residents of member municipalities to use, transitioning to them becoming "paper only" as of June 1. The move, approved at the authority's board meeting Monday on a three-month trial basis, comes in response to the frequent inclusion of non-recyclable garbage in the dumpsters. Authority Administrator Chris Ann Bressette...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — Paul Janczak, weatherization director for Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency in Bessemer, said a weatherization program is available for many area residents. It’s based on income level, with the goal to bring houses into better condition for the elements, which saves money and resources all around. Income eligibility guidelines for weatherization help are based on the recipient being within 150 to 200 percent of the 2017 federal poverty guidelines, Janczak said Tuesday. For exa...
By IAN Minielly [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Bessemer school board traveled to GCC Tuesday to hold a work session, not a board meeting. In a work session no final decisions are made, but options are discussed that can be brought before the board for a decision at a later date, according to Superintendent Dave Radovich. The group discussed Massie Field in Bessemer and adding a line item in the budget for maintenance. Massie Field is the home of the Speedboy and Speedgirl track and field, and Gogebic Miner football and baseball t...
HURLEY — A 46-year-old Hurley resident received a deferred sentence in Iron County Court Wednesday on a charge that dates to 2001. John Kallas entered a no contest plea to exposing intimate body parts, a misdemeanor, following a plea agreement between his attorney, Richard Gondik Jr., and acting Iron County District Attorney Fritz Schellgell. After one year, there will be a court hearing and if all conditions of the agreement are met, the charge will be amended to disorderly conduct, Schellgell said. A $443 forfeiture to the court will be d...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Sewer rates in Ironwood Township are increasing at the end of May, after the Ironwood Township Board of Trustees approved a mandated rate increase Monday as part of the completion of the township’s Stormwater, Asset Management and Wastewater grant. “Tonight marks the end of the SAW grant project,” Randy Scott, with the engineering firm C2AE, said Monday. Scott explained the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, which oversees the SAW program, has several require...
Wednesday, April 19 Christian Men of the Northland, 6:30 a.m., Uptown Cafe, Ironwood. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution, 9-10 a.m., Pioneer Park Apartments, Ironwood. 906-932-4200. Blood Pressure Clinic, 10 to 11:15 a.m., Hurley Senior Center. Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. DOVE Support Group, noon-2 p.m. 906-932-4990. Ironwood/Hurley Rotary Club, 12:15 p.m., Elk and Hound Restaurant, Ironwood. Iron County Historical Society, 1 p.m., Historical Society....
