Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - Scott Dianda, D-Calumet, visited six courthouses on Tuesday to announce his candidacy for Michigan's 38th State Senate District today. Starting at 5:00 a.m., Dianda and his staff covered 700 miles before pulling into the courthouse parking lot in Bessemer. In an interesting note, Dianda was behind the wheel. Was he making a statement, does his staff drive poorly, or were they taking turns? Either way it works out, Dianda has not outgrown hi...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER - After nearly a whole day of jury selection, the first day of the trial of a Tennessee man accused of criminal sexual conduct wrapped up with opening arguments from both sides in Gogebic County Circuit Court Tuesday. James Victor Hackler, 39, of Harriman, Tenn., is facing one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a person under the age of 13 and one count of second-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a person under...
HURLEY - Iron County voters head to the polls today in a series of state and local races. At the state level, voters will decide between incumbent Tony Evers and Lowell Holtz to see who will be the state's next superintendent of public instruction. Annette Ziegler is running unopposed for another term as a justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Iron County Circuit Court Judge Patrick Madden is also running unopposed for another term on the bench. Iron County's local municipalities also have...
BESSEMER — The Bessemer City Council moved through many items on the agenda Tuesday, but those results were overshadowed twice by heated discussions about which city officials are truly looking out for the city. The most contentious of the two was during the Public Comment section at the end of the meeting. Board member Rob Coleman said he had been denied an agenda item. Coleman described some law enforcement issues and hearsay regarding the proponents of medical marijuana and culminated with his displeasure of city attorney Mike Korpula’s per...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] WAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP - The Midwest Extreme Snowmobile Challenge, presented by Moto Trax, was held at the Blackjack Ski Resort Saturday and Sunday. Tim Moon, assistant general manager of Blackjack said, "The event is open to the public with free admission. This is our second year hosting and we are already discussing doing it for a third year." The weather was warm and the sky was overcast Saturday, keeping the sun from blinding the racers and...
By ISABELLE KLEINSCHMIDT [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The Wakefield Veteran's of Foreign Wars held a breakfast buffet on Sunday morning. Attendees enjoyed an array of breakfast foods including biscuits and gravy, corned beef hash, fried potatoes, sausage, eggs, breakfast burritos, coffee and juice, and a desert table. "It's been a busy day." said Volunteer Marsha Jurakovich, "People are very generous." The annual event helps to raise funds for the VFW. There is also a raffle held to...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — Marijuana proponents on the Gogebic Range will hold a speaking and civic engagement event at the Bessemer City Hall on Saturday, April 8, from 2:30 to 6 p.m. The marijuana proponents are inviting locals to come to the auditorium at city hall to learn, engage, and discuss the benefits of marijuana to the city of Bessemer, across the entire socio-economic spectrum. The Saturday event is broken down into four blocks of time: —2:30-3:30 p.m.: Leisure information booths. —3:30-4:30 p.m.: Main p...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - State Rep. Scott Dianda, D-Calumet, visited Contrast Coffee in downtown Ironwood Friday afternoon to give local residents a chance to share their thoughts and concerns and to hear his views on the direction of the state and District 110. Dianda went around the room shaking hands and listening to constituents voice their opinions. Traveling with Dianda was his Constituent Relations Director, Rawley Van Fossen, who trailed behind Dianda to...
HURLEY — A planned plea and sentencing hearing scheduled for Friday morning for a 52-year-old Hurley woman who is charged with five counts of theft from a business setting was postponed in Iron County Court. Joseph Rafferty, the attorney for Mary Peterson Tijan, told Judge Patrick Madden he needed more time to review “a vast amount of (computerized) data” he had received lately from Fritz Schellgell, acting Iron County District Attorney. Madden postponed the hearing to May 4 at 10 a.m. The judge agreed the data needs to analyzed by the defen...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - It was the parents who went to school Wednesday as the Ironwood Area Schools held its inaugural Parents Academy. The event featured district staff presenting on a range of topics, including Advanced Placement classes, how to help young students read, ACT/SAT prep and the scholarships available for college. In the gym, students in some of the district's science classes also presented on the work they were doing in class. There were also...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY - Ross Peterson Construction, of Hurley, cast the apparent low bid Thursday of five received for the city of Hurley's summer infrastructure project, at $1,134,153. Jeff Seamandel, of MSA Professional Services, the city's engineering company for the project, opened the sealed bids at city hall as representatives of the five companies awaited the results. Seamandel was pleased that the apparent low bid was under the $1,210,000 his company had...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — A Hurley man is facing eight felony counts related to inappropriate contact he allegedly had with two minors. Joshua Richard Quello, 18, faces seven counts of sexual assault of a child under the age of 16 and one count of exposing a child to harmful material, according to the criminal complaint against him filed in Iron County Court Tuesday. Each assault charge is a Class C felony, with a potential maximum sentence of up to 40 years in prison, or a fine of $100,000, while the eighth c...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - The fear of the unknown can take a person to their knees shaking over, the unknown. At other times, what we think we know that just is not so, can take people to their knees in fear and irrational thoughts. With that in mind, Aspirus Ironwood is hosting grade school aged children this week to show them areas of the hospital and aspects of physical care, before they need it, in an attempt to assuage those fears from developing. On...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] LANSING — State Rep. Scott Dianda, D-Calumet, said the Michigan Strategic Fund has awarded a $6.5 million grant to Northern Michigan University in Marquette to bring high-speed broadband across the entire Upper Peninsula. “This is great news for the communities in House District 110 that have long struggled without high-speed broadband service. This means entrepreneurs can live here and run their online businesses, and people can choose to stay in the U.P. or realize their dreams of moving to the U.P...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] BRUCE CROSSING — On Friday, a caravan of large trucks bringing relief are heading out from Bruce Crossing to Kansas to assist farmers and cattlemen devastated by fires that have burned farms, killed livestock and charred cattle feed. The trucks are lining up at the Settlers Co-op feed mill from 9 to 10 a.m. Friday. According to a source at the co-op, the co-op is taking a percentage of the price of purchased items and donating it to the relief effort. Marty DeHann, Mass City and Jan Strieter, Lake Linden, a...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] WHITE PINE - Construction on a copper mine in eastern Gogebic County that could lead to over 300 direct jobs could begin as early as 2018, Highland Copper president and CEO Denise Miville-Deschenes said Tuesday, with mining beginning in late 2020 and early 2021. Miville-Deschenes provided the update on Highland's Copperwood Project, located in northern Ironwood and Wakefield townships, at a press conference Tuesday in White Pine. The Copperwood...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The rebuilt campground at Saxon Harbor will be located on elevated land east of the harbor, after the Iron County Board of Supervisors voted 10-3 Tuesday to approve the new location. Board members Paul Mullard, Larry Youngs and Karl Krall voted against the measure; Jack Prospero abstained and Ken Saari wasn’t present. “We’ve got a chance to build a recreational area here. Not just a campground, but a recreational area,” Scott Erickson said in defense of the site, referring to the count...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — February temperatures were 7 degrees above normal in Ironwood, the ninth warmest in the past 116 years. Highs of 58 degrees on Feb. 17 and Feb. 19 pushed the monthly average temperature to 22.3 degrees, according to Kevin Crupi, of the National Weather Service office in Marquette. Pacific air flowed into the Ironwood area around mid-month, when some of the precipitation came down as rain. Snowfall for the month totaled 24.5 inches, or 3.7 inches below the long-term average. A 9.1-inch snowfa...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The Bessemer School Board voted unanimously to accept Ironwood joingin the co-op football program in an anti-climactic vote of solidarity Monday evening. Jim Partanen and Tim France provided a brief overview before the vote, two members of the public expressed their support and the board said, "Aye." The Gogebic Miners are part of the West Pac Conference, using Ironwood's already present schedule for 2017 and only have one game to find,...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The remains of the man found dead in a city of Ironwood house on March 20 have been identified, according to the Ironwood Public Safety Department. Gerald Glen Thompson was born in 1936, according to an IPSD Monday news release. Family members have been notified, according to Adam Clemens, the IPSD officer who has been investigating the case. He said foul play is not suspected, but an investigation is continuing. Clemens said the address of the house isn’t being released. He said the hou...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon Fire Department volunteers will now be treated as village employees under action taken by the Ontonagon Village Council Monday. The method by which firemen were paid has been an issue for several months and was highlighted in a television interview of Sue Lockhart. Lockhart told the council Monday that her interview was “not against the fire department,” but was intended to call attention to the village which she said was “not complying with federal and state laws.” “You spend a lot o...
