Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The residents and staff at the Gogebic Medical Care Facility are already reaping benefits of planned upgrades and once the awning over the rebuilt entryway is complete, will really be in high cotton. Rick Cunico, foreman for the Angelo Luppino Construction Company, of Iron Belt, Wis., said, "They had been waiting about a month for the steel to arrive so they could finish the awning. Now that it arrived, they expect to complete the job...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — The Hurley City Council revoked one liquor license and granted another on Tuesday to the same establishment. The Class B combination beer and liquor license for MJ Petro Group, Inc., on Club Sierra, 21 Silver St., Michael Berghorn, president, was revoked. Bill Nordeen, representing city attorney Ray O’Dea, who was attending a jury trial, said the revocation was because the establishment was abandoned for more than 90 days and Petro Group was dissolved in 2014. It, therefore, failed to possess...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The Bessemer Board of Education witnessed Mary Beth Trudgeon, Al Geiss, and Kim Wright depart the board and welcomed Jim Partanan, Kevin Nyquist, Sheri Graham (incumbent), and Eric Stanislawski as new members. Bob Berg presented plaques to the outgoing members and Al Geiss asked for a moment to address the crowd. Geiss stressed, "It's all about the kids." Over and over again, while referencing the hard work the district and teachers put in...
HURLEY — A Feb. 28 jury trial has been scheduled for a 47-year-old Ironwood woman who was previously bound over for trial in Iron County Court on 26 counts of identity theft. Wendy Wuorinen is alleged to have withdrawn around $7,613 from the Iron County Community Credit Union in Kimball from a customer’s account while she was employed there without authorization from November 2014 to December 2015. Judge Patrick Madden set the trial date on Oct 13. Wuorinen was charged on July 7. A Jan. 31 court date has been set for a final pre-trial con...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — The Ironwood Township Board of Trustees approved purchasing some additional software for the township hall Monday, which is expected to make the day-to-day financial operations of the township run smoother. Treasurer Maria Graser explained she learned of the software — BS&A’s Cash Receipting — while attending a training session at the city of Ironwood. While the township uses several BS&A products, Graser explained the Cash Receipting software will help connect the various...
By ISABELLE KLEINSCHMIDT [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Historic Ironwood Theatre was packed on Saturday evening for "A Sleigh Ride with the Claudettes." The festive annual performance was in collaboration with the Historic Ironwood Theatre and Theatre North. For over ten years, the Claudette's dance group has created an exciting show for the public to celebrate the holiday season. Their joyous music, costumes, and dance moves are a seasonal delight. Christmas classics such as Jingle...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Ed Wilbert, from Richfield, Wis., loves his family and loves snowmobiles. The best thing he could do is find a way to combine the two so his passion and his love would intersect and bond. As one of the two families that formed Evolution Racing, Ed and his family follow the regional racing circuit all winter long. Ed's children started racing at four. His sons Ben and Matt keep the family busy all year round working on their sleds and...
BESSEMER — A Bessemer woman was sentenced to jail for credit card theft last week. Karin Marie George, 37, was sentenced to three months in jail and two years probation for stealing/retaining a financial transaction device without consent Wednesday. George pleaded guilty to the possible 4-year felony in November as part of a plea agreement that had two other illegal use of a financial device charges dismissed at sentencing. The charges stem from an incident on Aug. 30, Gogebic County Prosecutor Nick Jacobs told the Daily Globe, when George w...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Aspirus Ironwood Hospital held a tree-lighting ceremony Tuesday for its "Celebration Tree," which is planted near the "Tree of Love." The "Celebration Tree" with its colorful lights, allows Aspirus to partner with members of the community to celebrate happy and special times. Births, weddings, graduations, and anniversaries are not things that just happen, they are major events in the lives of the people involved. Aspirus Ironwood gives...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] LANSING — A $500,000 grant recommendation for acquiring land for the Iron Belle Trail was announced Friday by Gov. Rick Snyder. Snyder said the Gogebic County acquisition of the Cottens property would involve 6 acres of land with frontage on Lake Superior to support the Iron Belle Trail and improve land management of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. The parcel is surrounded by the park on three sides, with Lake Superior located on the fourth side. The parcel has the potential to offer o...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD — Gogebic Community College has been recertified at the Master Automotive Service Technology level from the National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation through November 2021. GCC is the only post-secondary college in the Upper Peninsula certified at the master level and one of five in the state of Michigan. Master level certification is the most stringent and intensive level of certification offered. “Master level certification contains all the content of the other two levels of...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY - Donald Rick admitted Thursday to murdering Lisa Waldros in the fire that destroyed the Bear Trap Inn in Saxon. Rick, 44, who was living in Saxon at the time of the March 12 fire, entered a guilty plea to first-degree murder in Iron County Court. Five additional counts will be dismissed, but read into the record at sentencing on April 13. "I understand my conduct caused caused her death," Rick said when Iron County Judge Patrick Madden asked him...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - "When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple, with a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me," were words of inspiration from the poem, "Warning," that motivated Sue Ellen Cooper to drop $7.50 for a red hat in 1997. The hat was empowering and signaled something so much more than growing old, so she gave one to her friend, as she turned 50ish. Within five years, the Red Hat Society grew to more than 40,000 chapters worldwide. The Upper...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] RAMSAY — The project to replace a significant amount of the water and sewer pipes in the city of Bessemer recently hit a roadblock, as the Gogebic Range Water Authority was informed the United States Department of Agriculture-Rural Development had an issue with the way the bid for the project was awarded. Charles Lawson, a project manager with the engineering firm C2AE and works with the authority, told the authority board at its Thursday meeting that Andrew Granskog — a USDA state engineer in Lan...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Paulette Niemi, Career Technology Educator for the Gogebic Ontanogan Intermediate School District held the fourth annual Women in Welding class at Luther L. Wright K-12 school. Girls from Wakefield-Marenisco, Bessemer, and Ironwood volunteered for the course to gain an exposure to welding not normally considered as a career field open to women. Niemi organized the Women in Welding class to expose young women to a high paying career field...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] WAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP — The township Board of Trustees met Tuesday for nearly two hours. Elise Matz, an aide for U.S. Senator Gary Peters, met with John Cox before the meeting regarding economic development in the township. Cox said this was the first time he can recall a national political figure expressing interest in the area and they discussed Indianhead Mountain and the Big Snow Resort and the planned casino. The township has a new website, wakefieldtownship.com, managed by Tom Ruppe. The w...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] Broadband advocates in Iron County are encouraging residents to fill out a survey from the Wisconsin State Broadband Office designed to determine where areas of need are in the state. “If the people that fill out the survey show a need (for better service), which I believe that’s what it’s going to show, then we’re thinking the Public Service Commission is going to look at Iron County as one of the counties that indicates there is a (desire) ... possibly affecting future funding for future grants,...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors discussed possible options for the design of Saxon Harbor, but took no formal action Tuesday on the direction the rebuilding effort would take. The consensus among the board members was they needed to review the information Iron County Forestry and Parks Administrator Eric Peterson presented before any action was taken, especially as there isn’t a need for a decision before the next board meeting later this month. “Let’s do it once and do it right,...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Michigan State Police Trooper Jerry Mazurek visited the Wakefield-Marenisco K-12 school to discuss lesson 3 from the Teaching, Educating, and Mentoring School Liaison Program on Tuesday. The focus of the lesson is personal safety and recognizing danger. "Young teenagers are prone to being victims of crime because young people are reluctant to speak up," said Mazurek. The teenagers are beginning to spread their wings and get more freedom fr...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - On a snowy, Christmas-like Tuesday, the tables in the Memorial Building auditorium were quickly filled with gifts for the 11th annual Santa's Headquarters project. Families will collect the presents today. This year, 402 children from 180 families will receive gifts through the volunteer effort. Last year, around 327 children from 143 families had their Christmas celebrations made brighter through the effort, according to Erin Ross, of the Go...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - Saxon Harbor and it's place in Iron County's future was the topic of discussion at the Hurley Senior Center Monday night as the Iron County Citizens Forum not only discusses the results of the recent survey regarding rebuilding the harbor, but also the county-wide Asset Based Community Development Plan. The Saxon Harbor survey, which was funded by part of a $24,450 Wisconsin Coastal Management Grant the county received following the...
By ISABELLE KLEINSCHMIDT [email protected] IRONWOOD - Zion Lutheran Church was filled with Finnish-American history and culture as the National Finnish-American Festival Chorus held its annual Christmas concert Sunday afternoon. Under the direction of Gale Hellier, the chorus sang several Finnish Christmas songs, as well as some well-known sing-along carols in English. They were accompanied on flute by Susan Kontny and on piano by Sandra Rowoldt. With each piece, the singers explained the...
