Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - While a visit to the hospital is usually a bad thing, it was cause for celebration Monday as Aspirus held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new 43,000-square-foot clinic. The celebration is the culmination of over a year-long effort, with general contractor Miron Construction's CEO Dave Voss saying during the Nov. 2, 2015 ground breaking that the clinic would open in November 2016. While the lack of snow so far this year helped the work...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY - A Saxon, Wis., woman entered a not guilty plea Monday to aiding a felon by being a party to a crime in connection with the March 12 Bear Trap Inn fire. Jessica Carli, 41, appeared with her attorney, Craig Haukaas, who waived her right to a preliminary hearing before Judge Patrick Madden. Carli told the judge she was freely agreeing to be bound over to stand trial and no promises had been made to her. Madden gave Haukaas 30 days to file motions...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — An oversight of a little-known rule in federal procurement regulations means Iron County has to rebid the engineering contract for the rebuilding of Saxon Harbor. In August, the county awarded the contract to plan the rebuilding of the harbor after it was destroyed by flooding in the July 11 storm to a team of companies led by Coleman Engineering. Last week, Forest and Parks Administrator Eric Peterson informed the Iron County Board of Supervisors that the county hadn’t followed the pro...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Superior Range Shooter’s Club, established in 1978, opened its doors on Saturday to the community to confirm their guns were accurate before deer season begins. Between the first open range day on Nov. 5 and Saturday, the range did not see as many members of the community take advantage of the opportunity as they have in the past. Gary Lowe, club secretary discussed the risk people take using open gravel and sand pits to site their wea...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The process of determining the amount of aid the Federal Emergency Management Agency will give Iron County to rebuild Saxon Harbor is nearly complete, according to a report given at Wednesday’s Iron County Board of Supervisors meeting. The money is part of the assistance the county will receive to rebuild the harbor following the July 11 storm, when heavy rains caused flooding that destroyed the harbor. Iron County Forestry and Parks Administrator Eric Peterson told the county board tha...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — New Bessemer city manager Charly Loper met with the Daily Globe on Friday to discuss her past, the current situation, and the future of Bessemer. Before taking the city manager position in Bessemer, Charly knew she wanted a community where she could put her stamp on the area and make a difference. When she visited Bessemer and saw the area first hand, she knew it was the right fit. As a college student at Central Michigan University, Loper developed a passion for governance and signed up for a...
IRONWOOD - Ironwood students, members of the public and area veterans gathered in Luther L. Wright's John Krznarich Gymnasium Friday for the district's annual Veterans Day ceremony. The ceremony began with the presentation of colors by members of the school's JROTC Color Guard and the singing of the National Anthem by Vanessa Nasi. Following this, and the presentation of the flags of the various branches of the military and service-related organization, the Ironwood High School Band performed,...
HURLEY — A Friday canvass of the Iron County, Wis., election turned up five fewer votes for District Attorney winner Matt Tingstad, but he’s still in line to take office on Jan. 1. The canvass vote count at the courthouse was 1,704 for Tingstad, of Bessemer, to 1,696 for Tony Stella, of Kimball. The canvass board does not count every vote, but compares the call-in totals the county clerk receives to the sheets recorded by each municipality. In one precinct, the town of Anderson, five extra votes had been recorded for Tingstad. According to depu...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - The effort to repair Lake Road following the July 11 storm took a major step forward as one of the final washed out culverts was replaced Wednesday, continuing a work schedule that could see the road to Wisconsin reopened by next week. Gogebic County Road Commission Engineer-Manager Darren Pionk said the culvert, known as Culvert 13, was just one of the culverts destroyed during the July 11 storm when heavy rains caused flooding...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — Property owners who will be affected by next summer’s water and sewer project in Ironwood had the opportunity to meet with city officials and representatives of Coleman Engineering Thursday. Ten people who will be affected by the project had their questions answered during the session at the Memorial building. Mike Foley, project manager for Coleman, noted it is the fourth phase of sewer-water work in the city, also resulting in new street surfaces. The gravel roads won’t be converted to bl...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Local Veteran Service Officer John Frello, in conjunction with Brad Nelson, Public Affairs Officer of the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain, hosted a town hall meeting in the basement of the Ironwood Memorial Building Thursday morning. While the primary focus was on the Choice Program, included in the presentation was a team from the Escanaba Veterans Center whose mission is to "serve veterans and their families by providing a...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] OMA, Wis — Local and state officials gathered at the old Pine Lake fire tower in Oma Wednesday to celebrate the beginning of the second phase of Iron County’s broadband Internet expansion efforts. Joining the locals responsible for moving the second phase of the effort through the state’s grant process were Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Cathy Stepp and State Broadband Director Angie Dickison. Dickison told the group the county...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Karen Wolf, an associate with the Great Lakes Center for Youth Development, hosted a Youth Asset Summit at Gogebic Community College Wednesday. High school students in grades 9-12 descended on GCC from Luther L. Wright, A.D .Johnston in Bessemer, Ewen-Trout Creek, Ontonagon, the Ironwood Alternative School, and the local 4-H club to hear the results of a survey taken last spring. The students, upon arrival, were differentiated by stickers and...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] More than half of Gogebic County’s eligible voters participated in Tuesday’s election, with initial figures released by Clerk Gerry Pelissero indicating turnout was at 53.6 percent. According to the numbers, 7,485 of the 13,953 registered voters cast ballots in the election. Wakefield Township had the highest percentage of participation of the county’s municipalities, at 66.1 percent of the 266 voters participating. The city of Ironwood had the lowest participation, with 48.5 percent of registered...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — Iron County voters elected a District Attorney Tuesday who doesn’t have a license to practice law in the state. In fact, he doesn’t live in Wisconsin. After the dust settled around midnight in a real shocker, Matt Tingstad, 40, of Bessemer, had defeated Tony Stella Jr., 57, of Kimball, 1,709 to 1,696. Town of Mercer votes didn’t come in until around 11 p.m. and they were initially incorrect, as both Stella and Tingstad had 100 votes too many. A total of 1,008 votes were cast in Mercer and the...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] Voters in Gogebic and Ontonagon counties have voted to retain 32nd Circuit Court Judge Michael Pope for the remainder of a term lasting until Jan. 1, 2021. Pope received 4,128 votes in Gogebic County and 1,883 votes in Ontonagon County for a total of 6,011 votes. Pope’s challenger, Mark McDonald, received 2,187 votes in Gogebic County and 818 votes in Ontonagon County for a total of 3,005 votes. Pope was appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder late last year to serve until this election in the wake of f...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] Four of the five candidates in the Ironwood Township Board of Trustees race were happy Tuesday night, with incumbents Bernard Brunello and Kevin Lyons, along with newcomers Bev Michaels and Marlene Saari-Mieloszyk winning seats on the board. Saari-Mieloszyk received the most votes in the race, capturing 21 percent of the voters with 776 votes. Lyons took second with 758 votes, Michaels — the lone Republican in the race — won 729 votes and Brunello rounded out the quartet with 717 votes. The fif...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] Voters across the country will cast their ballots in Tuesday's election; voting in federal, state and local elections. Polls are open until 8 p.m. In addition to the presidential race; at the federal level, voters in Iron County will also be voting in a senate race between Republican incumbent Ron Johnson, Democrat Russ Feingold and Libertarian Phillip Anderson. They will also vote in the 7th Congressional District race between incumbent Republican...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The weekend’s unseasonably mild weather set a daily temperature record. The reading of 69 degrees for the 24-hour period to 7 a.m. Monday in Ironwood marks a new Nov. 7 high for the past 115 years, according to the National Weather Service office in Marquette. The beaches on Lake Superior saw quite a bit of activity over the weekend and many boaters got out on the big lake. “Two cohos and a small brown,” a fisherman said Saturday from a boat that was entering Saxon Harbor, where small boats...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — The city of Bessemer was finally able to not only meet and greet their new city manager, Charly Loper, they were able to witness Loper make a report, a request and take charge of the city’s master plan. But first, to old business. The city council provided an update on the blighted property at 206 S. Sophie St. The property is referred to as the Keating property, after property owner Mike Keating. Keating was given until Oct. 31 by the council to take care of the property and bring it up to...
