Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - "It's worth saving," said Mike Wiedl, from Fast Corporation, in response to Pete Sturgul's question on the state of the Hiawatha statue. For Sturgul, who is raising funds to restore the statue with John Rudderg, those words must have been a shock and a relief. Wiedl said their company is one of the few left doing this kind of unique work, with their primary competition coming from China in prefabricated molds. The Fast Corporation made the...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — The previously discussed partnership between the Downtown Development Authority and city of Bessemer to promote business growth in Bessemer is coming to fruition. According to Charly Loper, city manager, the DDA is announcing the start of their pop-up shop program. The pop-up shop program offers six months free rent to new businesses looking to open in the downtown area of Bessemer. The DDA intention is to kick-start businesses people may have been dreaming about but never had the start-up...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — A special Ironwood City Commission meeting today at 6 p.m. will include a public hearing on a plan to seek Michigan Community Development Block Grant funding for the booster pump replacement project. The session will begin with the public hearing, to be followed by action by the commission. Citizens wishing to comment on the grant application for the city’s well-field pump station project will each have three minutes to state their opinions. A total of $2 million in funding will be sou...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - With the Federal Emergency Management Agency's approval to move the campground at Saxon Harbor, the Iron County Forestry and Parks Committee voted Tuesday to recommend the Iron County Board of Supervisors choose a new location east of the harbor. County Forestry and Parks Administrator Eric Peterson laid out two potential sites on the property for the campground. "Location one is approximately 3.3 acres and is directly east of the harbor...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Gogebic Community College played host to 24 teams from 12 high schools Tuesday for a Quiz Bowl competition, with Ironwood coming away with two victories. Teams from Ironwood, L'Anse, Phillips, Hurley, Houghton, Republic-Michigamme, Chassell, Hancock, Bessemer, Watersmeet, West Iron County and Wakefield-Marenisco squared off in two divisions over the span of 5.5 hours. On a warm Tuesday, revenge for Ironwood was best served cold. The team...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission on Monday approved sewer and water rate increases of around $5 a month to help pay for debt service for the summer phase 4 infrastructure project. Water rate increases of 5 percent and sewer hikes of 2.24 percent were approved by the three commissioners attending the meeting, with a 2 percent cost of living (inflationary) adjustment to both charges. The city commission had previously approved the annual inflationary increases in the rates. City manager Scott E...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRON BELT - A group of students from the Hurley K-12 School and Purdue University's Forestry and Natural Resources program got a chance to go out into the woods Monday and see firsthand some of the real world opportunities natural resource careers provide. "What we're doing is, we're trying to expose both the Hurley kids and the Purdue students to natural resource (opportunities) - to diversify their experiences," said Zach Wilson, a conservation...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - Ironwood resident Charlie Semo said a close encounter with what he believes was a wolf on Saturday night has him worried for the safety of children in the city. Semo said he stood about 50 feet away from a big black animal around 11 p.m. at his house at 513 Florence St., near the Lindquist Electric business that's on U.S. 2. Semo said he has seen wolves in the wild and there's no doubt in his mind the animal was a wolf. He said he called 911...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Mental Health Facility in Wakefield hosted the Range Suicide Prevention Council on Friday. The groups discussed the combining of the Gogebic-Ontonagon Suicide Prevention Council and RSPC into one community-wide organization, according to Pat Gallinagh, of the RSPC. Crystal Suzik, parent liaison, said combining groups is much less challenging than originally thought, not requiring name adoption or legal documentation because they are combining resources and agencies w...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - Spaghetti was on the menu Sunday at the Breakwater Restaurant in Ironwood as the Gogebic-Iron Detachment 1133 of the Marine Corps League held its annual fundraiser. As a cross-border detachment, the group sends the proceeds from the fundraiser to locations in both Michigan and Wisconsin, according to detachment Commandant Gary Kusz. The money will go to the Wisconsin Veterans Home in King, Wis.; the D.J. Jacobetti Home for Veterans, in...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Ice Crystals put on quite a display of figure skating talent this weekend at the Patrick O'Donnell Civic Center, as the group performed a variety of routines for its 33rd annual show. The theme of this year's performance was "Colors." A total of three shows were performed Saturday and Sunday; with Sunday's event drawing the largest crowd in the past four years, according to the group's Program Director Rebecca Samson. Samson said the...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — A new lease agreement with the Eagle Bluff County Club will be acted on by the Hurley City Council at its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday evening. The city of Hurley owns the 18-hole golf course, which is leased and operated by an Eagle Bluff board of directors. The finance committee of the council, consisting of Rob Lanctoe, Joanne Bruneau and Steve Lombardo, will discuss a new lease agreement and make a recommendation before it is acted on by the full council. The golf course board p...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - The Copper Peak Board of Directors approved an easement Wednesday with the Sisu Dirt Crew, opening up a recently constructed trail system on the hill to public use this season. While the trails are currently closed through spring melt to prevent damage, Dirt Crew secretary Paul Anderson said the easement allows the trails to open later this season for biking, hiking and other non-motorized activities. "As soon as they're dry,...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] More than 100 years ago, Juliette Gordon "Daisy" Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts, organized the first troop on March 12, 1912, in Savannah, Ga. The mission of the Girl Scouts has remained the same since then - "to build girls of courage, confidence, and character that make the world a better place." The Girls Scouts of the USA received its official charter from Congress on March 16, 1950. According to the Girl Scouts' website, the Girl Scouts...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — A 5:25 p.m. Monday public hearing on a grant application for a playground will precede the regular Ironwood City Commission meeting. The purpose of the hearing is to receive comments on a Michigan Department of Natural Resources Recreational Passport grant application being submitted for the construction of a North Lowell Street Playground on the corner of North Lowell Street and East Midland Avenue. The application will then be acted on by the commission during its regular meeting. The comm...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors’ Finance Committee approved purchasing water testing equipment Thursday necessary to complete surface tests of the Montreal River watershed that LaPointe Iron Company would like to be completed. County board chair Joe Pinardi said he and clerk Michael Saari had been in contact with LaPointe representatives about the testing and the company is asking the county to bear the cost of the equipment to avoid any potential appearance of impropriety or tha...
Although the Upper Peninsula hosted thousands of snowmobilers earlier this winter when there was little snow elsewhere, there have been no fatal accidents this winter, according to the Department of Natural Resources. The MDNR’s fatality report, last updated on March 3, indicated four fatal accidents in the state. That compares to the 2015-’16 winter season when the state recorded 24 fatalities, with the last one occurring on March 5, 2016, when a snowmobiler struck a deer in Presque Isle County. Last winter, there were 12 U.P. snowmobile fat...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] The West Allis Radio Amateur Club will host another Wisconsin QSO party, like it has since 1996. A QSO party is where ham radio stations anywhere in the world attempt to make contact with Wisconsin ham stations for points while Wisconsin ham stations contact anywhere else in the world for points on Sunday, March 12, from 1 to 8 p.m. Awards are given to the highest contact rate in different categories and the contest is open to all amateur radio operators in the world. Each of Wisconsin’s 72 c...
Gusty west winds that continued on Wednesday morning combined with snow on the Gogebic Range to create some hazardous driving conditions and power outages. Trees and branches fell across many roadways Tuesday and Wednesday as debris was scattered throughout the area by 30 to 50 mph winds. Highway billboard signs in Ironwood and Kimball, Wis., blew down during wind peaks, trash cans were damaged and leaves were scattered like on a late autumn day. Most of the previous snow had melted, so the...
BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners Wednesday tabled a proposal to move a sheriff’s department deputy into a part-time data processing position for a three-month period to prepare for the retirement of Brad Noren. The proposal is to eventually replace Noren with Brandon Tauer, who is now a full-time deputy. At a technology committee meeting on March 1, the committee recommended the move for three or four months, with the details to be worked out with the sheriff’s union and a job description to be drafted, if needed. Noren...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] Temperatures that reached into the 50s across the Gogebic Range on Monday, combined with strong west and southerly winds, evaporated the little snow cover that remained. The spring-like weather closed most area snowmobile trails. The warm temperatures had turned the trails into slush and mud over the weekend. With no snow in the immediate forecast, trails were in very poor shape or closed on Tuesday. The Hurley Area Chamber of Commerce said all Iron...
