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Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD - Three members of the Ironwood Red Devils tennis team and a coach were involved in an accident with a logging truck; and while no serious injuries were reported, the four went to Aspirus Grand View as a precautionary measure. At approximately 6:50 a.m., the Ironwood Public Safety Department and Beacon Ambulance were dispatched to the intersection of Cloverland Drive and Lake Street for a reported accident. According to IPSD Lt. Michael Rimkus, the accident occurred when the westbound...
IRONWOOD — After coming close last year, the Gogebic County 4-H Market Animal Auction surpassed the $1 million in total sales mark Saturday at the Gogebic County Fair. Coming into the auction, the county’s 4-H program coordinator Ashley Hampston said the $47,894 raised last year was “just” $2,960 shy of reaching the $1 million milestone. The first animal up for auction Saturday put the club over the $1 million threshold, thanks to Ironwood’s Nicki Lekie’s grand champion steer weighing 1,330 poun...
BESSEMER — A Hurley woman pleaded guilty in Gogebic County Circuit Court Tuesday to two drug charges as part of a plea agreement in a pair of cases against her. Carolyn Elizabeth Kauffman, 23, pleaded guilty to one count of delivery of methamphetamine and one count of possession methamphetamine. According to court records, the counts stem from two different cases. In exchange for the plea, the agreement calls for a second charge in each case to be dismissed. One of the counts, in the case with the delivery of meth charge, is conspiracy to deliv...
IRONWOOD - Mayor Annette Burchell on Tuesday thanked the voters of the city of Ironwood for approving the millage that led to streets throughout the city being resurfaced. Although the mayor was speaking at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Norrie Park, she said the Tuesday noon ceremony stood for all of the street work that had been completed in the city in the past few years. Norrie Park Road, along the Montreal River, was long the most pothole-felled roadway in Ironwood and city commissioner Jim M...
BESSEMER - A small group of area residents gathered at Saint Sebastian School Tuesday for the second week of the Michigan State Police's citizens academy. The academy is an eight-week course designed to expose citizens to the various capabilities of the MSP. "Basically, it's to give more information to the general public on who we are in the state police - all the different services we provide," said Jerry Mazurek, the community service trooper with the MSP's Wakefield post. "It's education,...
HURLEY — A team of companies led by Coleman Engineering will be responsible for developing the plans to rebuild Saxon Harbor after the Iron County Board of Supervisors awarded the company the development contract Tuesday. The decision comes based on a recommendation by the highway and forestry committees, which made their recommendation after receiving six proposals for the work. “Everything is moving at an accelerated pass,” Iron County Forestry and Parks Administrator Eric Peterson said regarding the time between the committees meeting Thurs...
SAXON, Wis - Gov. Scott Walker visited Saxon Harbor Monday, touring the cleanup effort and announcing Iron County has been awarded a Coastal Management grant to help the planning stage of the rebuilding process. "This grant will help get the harbor - and the community - back on its feet," Governor Walker said in a release. "Providing financial aid, like the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program Grant, is just one of the ways we're demonstrating our commitment to helping northwestern Wisconsin...
IRONWOOD - Gogebic Community College was filled with sounds and sights of students, faculty and staff on campus Monday for the first day of classes of the fall semester. The first day of school is "the highlight of the year," GCC president James Lorenson said. "The colleges exists because of our students," he said. "This looks like a great class of freshmen and we have a good number of returning students." Welcome signs featuring the school's forest green logo greeted students around campus and...
HURLEY — The Italian heritage of Iron County will be celebrated during Festival Italiano Saturday in downtown Hurley. The festival kicks off early with a new event, the two-mile “Dago Dash” at 8 a.m. Folks can pick up forms at the Hurley Area Chamber of Commerce office. Chamber director Rita Franzoi said all proceeds from the dash will benefit the Hurley cross country teams. Another new event will be a “Human Foosball” tournament, beginning at 10 a.m. Franzoi said the event “should be good for lots of laughs, whether playing or just watchi...
IRONWOOD - The Gogebic County Fair drew crowds Saturday and Sunday, with Sunday's sunny skies offsetting Saturday's showers. "We've got a good fair. We've had lots of good comments," Fair Board Chairman Jim Gribble said Sunday. "The exhibits are really high quality. You can tell the people have worked hard to get them ready for the fair." Saturday was the fair's Family Day; and despite the intermittent rain, the festivities continued as scheduled. The day started off with an open horse show in...
PORCUPINE MOUNTAINS - The strum of guitar strings and stomps of bass drums rang through the Porkies this weekend as hundreds sat on blankets, in fold-up chairs or beneath tents to listen to a number of bands from around the country perform as part of the Porcupine Mountains Music Festival. In its 12th year, the festival drew one of the largest crowds yet to the popular three-day event. Event organizer Cheryl Sundberg said past festival attendances have averaged around 1,000 people, but this...
WAKEFIELD - A crowd gathered at the beach at Eddy Park in Wakefield on Friday afternoon to celebrate Ardie Johnson's 72nd birthday. For the event, Ardie decided to swim across Sunday Lake as a way to raise funds and awareness for the HOPE Animal Shelter in Ironwood. Ardie's friends and family joined her for the event. Included in the crowd was Ardie's son, Randy, and daughter, Yvonne Johnson, who accompanied their mother in her swim across the lake. A long-time resident of Hurley, Ardie likes to...
Xcel Energy workers began upgrading area street lights to LED this week, a measure expected to save costs for communities and be environmentally beneficial. The Gogebic Range is one of three areas where workers are replacing 3,700 street lights, with work also being done in Ashland and Hayward. “After pilot projects to test the latest LED technology, we are making this investment in step with our commitment to support the goals of the communities we serve,” Mike Bebeau, Xcel’s community service manager, said in a news release. “With new LED...
IRONWOOD - Sunny skies welcomed the beginning of the Gogebic County Fair Thursday. During the afternoon, children and the young in heart rode carnival rides and played games in the midway. While the American flag was being raised, Alyssa Schwab, of Ironwood, sang the Star Spangled Banner alongside a color guard. Off in the distance at the grandstand, area high schoolers competed for bragging rights during the Youth Challenge. Teams from Wakefield, Ironwood and Bessemer participated. The first...
BESSEMER — Bids will be received by the end of next week for some of the numerous projects necessary to repair the Little Girl’s Point area following the July 11-12 storm. Gogebic County Road Commission Manager-Engineer Darren Pionk spoke to the county board of commissioners on Wednesday about the bid process and excessive work that lies ahead. Weather permitting, Pionk said work should begin this fall. County board chair Joe Bonovetz, of Bessemer, suggested an invitation bid only process, if possible, to get the projects under way. That wou...
IRONWOOD - National Guard Civil Support Teams were on hand to conduct hazardous materials training with local law enforcement and fire departments Wednesday at Gogebic Community College. At the scene, Ironwood Public Safety Department Lt. Michael Rimkus said the training was a weapons of mass destruction drill. Partaking in the drill were IPSD, the IPSD Hazmat Team, the 51st Civil Support Team from Battle Creek, the 54th Civil Support Team from Madison, Wis., the Gogebic-Iron Area Narcotics...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Experts from around the world gathered in Ironwood Township Wednesday for the first day of a two-day meeting focused on the design improvements necessary to prepare Copper Peak for the return of international competition. "Basically, we're at the very beginning design phase of the project and we've brought three international ski-jumping experts in," said Paul Anderson, a project manager with Coleman Engineering; the lead engineering firm on the Copper Peak upgrades. "We have...
IRONWOOD — Judith Kay Newton, better known as Juice, was part of the first wave of country singers raised on folk rock music and is excited to perform on stage Friday during the Gogebic County Fair. Over her career, Newton has been nominated for a Grammy five times for Pop and Country Best Female Vocalist, won an American Country Music Award for Best New Female Artist and won two Billboard Female Artist of the Year awards consecutively. The vocalist has several gold and platinum records to her name, including “Juice” and “Quiet Lies....
IRONWOOD - The final preparations are being made for the 95th annual Gogebic County Fair, set to run Thursday through Sunday at the fairgrounds in Ironwood. Fair Board President Jim Gribble said the 2016 edition will include many of the old favorites like carnival rides, grandstand shows and agricultural aspects, but there are plenty of new attractions this year, too. While the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners and fair board have been running the fair since 1921, the fair has roots back as...
BLACK RIVER HARBOR — The Negaunee man, whose body was recovered from the Black River Monday, has been identified. Searchers found Jeramiah Joseph Truckey, 32, at approximately 9:30 a.m., Monday; ending the search that began shortly after 7:45 p.m., Sunday when the Gogebic County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call about a man going in the river near Sandstone Falls. Truckey and a friend may have been taking photos near the falls when might have tripped an fell into the water, TV-6, of Marquette reported. While searchers found Truckey in...
BLACK RIVER HARBOR - The body of a 32-year-old Negaunee man who slipped into Black River near Sandstone Falls was found Monday afternoon. Gogebic County Sheriff Pete Matonich said the body was located around 9:30 a.m. on Monday, but was not recovered until around 4:30 p.m. "Recovery efforts were hampered due to the dangerous water and difficult terrain," Matonich said. The river was running high from around 3 inches of rain that fell over the weekend. The man and a friend were taking photos...
HURLEY — Special prosecutor Richard Dufour brought charges against Jessica M. Carli, of Saxon, Thursday, the second person charged in the March fire that burned down the Bear Trap Inn and resulted in the death of Lisa Waldros. Carli, 41, of Church Street, is charged with one count of aiding a felon as a party to a crime, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and/or $25,000. The criminal complaint against Carli alleges she knew Donald Rick had killed Waldros, of Kimball, and set fire to the bar and helped him attempt to hide the e...
