Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - John R. Swift, - chronicler of the fictional accounts of Sheriff Gogebic - visited the Ironwood Carnegie Library Thursday to discuss his latest Sheriff Gogebic novel, which takes place in the area. Swift and his wife Mary live in Mercer during the non-winter months and his main protagonist, Sheriff Gogebic, works the local beat that would be familiar to the people living here. Swift said he and Mary settled on the Mercer area because it is...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - A Saxon woman is headed to prison after Iron County Judge Patrick Madden decided Wednesday her role in the 2016 murder-arson at the Bear Trap Inn was serious enough to exceed the prosecution's recommendation of jail time and probation. Jessica M. Carli, 42, was sentenced to four years in prison and another four years of extended supervision for her role in helping her then-boyfriend cover up the crime. "Ms. Carli, in her statement,...
IRONWOOD - It's fair time. Daylight is waning each day and soon, school will be back in session, but there's time for one more rite of summer. The 96th annual Gogebic County Fair begins today and runs through Sunday at the fairgrounds in Ironwood. Many folks have been working for months to prepare. 4-H members are ready to descend on the grounds with their livestock and other projects. In the last few days, activity picked up as amusement rides arrived, railings and fences were painted and stabl...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] BESSEMER — Gogebic County Road Commission Engineer and Manager Darren Poink updated the county board about a variety of ongoing projects at its regular meeting Wednesday evening. Work continues on repairing Lake Road in Ironwood Township after last summer’s major storm. Poink said they have installed four culverts and have five more to go, plus paving over the culverts and a half-mile of road reconstruction left to do. He said the projected date for blacktopping is Sept. 18. There was some discussi...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Ironwood Fighting Yoopers are coming to town August 28. The Yoopers are meeting at Gogebic Community College where management and coaching will discuss practice times and the upcoming season. Dry-land training will commence that week as their first series of games are scheduled for the next week in Hudson, Wis. The Yooper Booster Club met Tuesday to finalize many elements necessary for the upcoming season and said the finalized...
HURLEY — Iron County residents will have an opportunity to dispose of their hazardous and electronic waste, as the county is once again hosting a collection event. The collection will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at both the Hurley Recycling Center and the Mercer Town Garage. A variety of items will be collected; including tires, electronics, appliances, hazardous waste and lead tackle. Among the hazardous waste being accepted are: oil-based paints, solvents, pesticides, hazardous cleaners, rechargeable ni-cads, metal halide and b...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] HURLEY — The Hurley K-12 School is hoping to offer college credits for certain tech ed classes through an agreement with Gogebic Community College. The Hurley School Board discussed entering a credit articulation agreement with the college at its regular meeting Monday evening, according to Hurley School Administrator Chris Patritto. “It’ll be a pilot program to start,” said Patritto. “We’re looking at our curriculum here and deciding what would be good for college credits there. We have to mak...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - Even though the overcast sky limited the ability to view Monday's solar eclipse, residents packed the Ironwood Carnegie Library's back lawn for a chance to catch a glimpse through the clouds. Over 150 people were estimated to have attended the library's eclipse watching event, forcing attendees to share the special glasses needed to allow people to look at the sun without damaging their eyes. "We are very pleased with the turnout,"...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - The Ontonagon Area Board of Education has a new member. Monday, the board elected Tammy Strasser, of White Pine, to serve the term vacated by the resignation of Heather Beck. Beck resigned when she was hired by the Ontonagon Area District as an instructor. Strasser previously served for two years on the board. Her term will last until the November election in 2018. Board member Karen Jackson was selected to serve as treasurer, a position held...
LANSING — Michigan has achieved a significant milestone in the state’s efforts to keep babies safe with the 200th surrender of a newborn under the state’s Safe Delivery law. Under the law, a biological parent may legally surrender an infant no more than 72 hours old to an emergency service provider. An emergency service provider is a uniformed or otherwise identified employee or contractor of a hospital, fire department or police station who is inside the building and on duty, or a paramedic or emergency medical technician who responds to a...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MINOCQUA, Wis. - As was the case last year, Iron County was represented on the waters of Minocqua Lake Saturday during the second annual Minocqua Dragon Boat Festival. Iron Dragons were among the 26 teams competing in the festival's races. "It was just a great day. It was a lot of fun ... the weather was perfect, and the fact our area can collect so many people together to be in alignment for a charitable cause is really notable," Iron Dragons team...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - Saturday morning at Amy Ackley Anderson's TroutLily Art and Design studio and shop on Sophie Street, the third annual backpack give away for students at the Washington Elementary school was held. Thrivent, Walmart and the Gogebic Association of Retired School Personnel as well as over 30 other contributors came together to provide the packs and supplies, as well as the refreshments and snacks, according to Al Gaiss. All told, 55 backpacks...
IRONWOOD — For two hours and 41 minutes Monday the Ironwood area is going to experience a partial eclipse of the sun. The solar eclipse starts at 11:49 a.m. And reaches its maximum, approximately 80 percent masked by the moon, at 1:10 p.m., ending at 2:30 p.m. This is the first eclipse in 99 years to sweep from coast to coast in the United States and veteran eclipse watchers warned the uninitiated to be prepared to be blown away by the eclipse if they have not witnessed one prior. Across the US, 200 million people are within a days drive to the...
IRONWOOD - The Ironwood Carnegie Library is hosting a dual event on Monday to celebrate the end of the summer reading program and solar eclipse. Lynne Wiercinski, librarian, said Monday's event will kick off at 12:55 p.m. They would like all their summer readers, parents and everyone else who can make it to come to the library for the event. Wiercinski said they have glasses on hand. Having been listed as an official provider on the internet, they have given away a bunch of glasses, but also...
IRONWOOD — Contractors for the Michigan Department of Transportation will begin pavement joint repairs Tuesday on about three-tenths of a mile of U.S. 2, from the Wisconsin state line to west of Tourist Park Road, in Ironwood. The work will require lane shifts and lane closures under flag control. It is the next phase of a project that, in addition to joint repairs and resurfacing on U.S. 2, will resurface 1.3 miles of U.S. 2 Business Route from U.S. 2 south along Douglas Boulevard, through downtown Ironwood and west to the Wisconsin state l...
IRONWOOD - Eleven cyclists took off from Ironwood Thursday morning on what they called the inaugural Upper Peninsula Iron Belle Trail Ride, with a goal of arriving in St. Ignace on Saturday. The riders will cross the Upper Peninsula on the non-motorized Iron Belle Trail, which is designated to cross the entire state, uninterrupted from Ironwood to Belle Isle in Detroit. Locally, Bob Jacquart helped muster the ride, gaining support from the city of Ironwood, Department of Natural Resources,...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - There's support to extend Ironwood's First Friday downtown promotional effort beyond September. On Monday, the city commission discussed the possibility of adding at least an October First Friday night, when many stores remain open later and musical entertainment is offered in the Art Park. So far, the effort has received a thumbs-up from the general public and city officials, bringing good crowds to the downtown on a night when the streets...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Several engineering firms continue to work on designing the improvements necessary for ski flying competitions to return to Copper Peak. According to Copper Peak’s August update, Duluth-based Barr Engineering and Iron Mountain-based Gundlach Champion have been working with Coleman Engineering for almost two months on designs to bring the Ironwood Township ski hill up to standards required by the International Ski Federation — a key step if Copper Peak is to follow through on its plan to host competitions in the fall of 20...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - U.S. Sen. Gary Peters visited Ironwood Wednesday during his motorcycle trip around the state. During the visit he stopped by the Daily Globe to talk about the issues he is working on in Washington D.C. - including jobs, health care, the Essential Air Service and a promise to look into the rules regarding the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to natural disasters. As part of the Senate committee's on Commerce, Science and...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The Bessemer School Board met on Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. The meeting lasted over two hours and nothing was settled. Nothing was settled because decisions were not made as it was a working group. As such, without the concerns of voting, the members appeared free to brainstorm and think how best to engage the future, without setting any policy. No one from the public showed up. Dave Wineburner, the new A.D. Johnston principal was in...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — A 36-year-old former Montreal, Wis., resident was sentenced in Iron County Court Wednesday morning for failure to update information as a sex offender and being a party to the crime of identity theft. David Trovillion was sentenced by Iron County Judge Patrick Madden to one year in jail for being a party to identity theft, concurrent with an Ashland County sentence Trovillion is serving at the Waupun prison. He was also sentenced Wednesday to a year of incarceration and 12 months of e...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — Pat Gallinagh had some grim statistics for the Ironwood City Commission on Monday. The suicide rate in Ontonagon County is the highest in the state and Gogebic County ranks seventh among the 83 counties, he noted. The Ironwood resident, a former area educator and high school football coach, believes the lack of psychiatric counseling on the Gogebic Range plays a big factor in the high suicide rate here, in addition to alcohol and drug abuse and the availability of firearms. “The sca...
GURNEY, Wis. - With the construction of a new boardwalk and viewing platform, visitors are once again able to easily take in the Lower Potato River Falls. The previous platform and cliff supporting it were washed away during the rain and flooding that hit northern Iron County during the same July 11, 2016 storm that destroyed Saxon Harbor. While reconstruction of the harbor remains in the planning stages, the Iron County Forestry Department's staff began work on the new observation platform in...
