Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER - A.D. Johnston High School students put down their pencils to make jelly Wednesday morning for agricultural science class. Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District teacher Bob Genisot said people think of big open fields, live stock and corn when hearing the word "agriculture." Over the years, he said less and less people grow their own food. Genisot said he wants to change that and encouraged about 15 students in class to grow their o...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] IRONWOOD - The city of Ironwood celebrated recent improvements to two area parks with a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday morning at Depot Park. As rain fell, upwards of 10 city officials and residents gathered under the pavilion to celebrate electrical upgrades and other improvements to Curry Park and the new playground at Depot Park. Mayor Annette Burchell thanked the city of Ironwood and its parks and recreation committee and community development...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — It’s possible the case of a 52-year-old Hurley woman who is charged with six counts of theft from Iron County may be settled in a month. The attorney for Mary Peterson Tijan, of 112 Germania St., told Iron County Judge Patrick Madden Wednesday that negotiations with special prosecutor Fritz Schellgell are continuing. At a pre-trial hearing, Joseph Rafferty Jr. told Madden, “I assure the court that there’s a cauldron (of activity) bubbling underneath,” referring to the talks. Madden told Raff...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER — Students in the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District took a survey conducted by the Great Lakes Center for Youth Development to find out what local students consider assets for their education. In all, 321 students in the eighth, 10th and 12th grade at Gogebic and Ontonagon schools were surveyed in May. The surveyor defined assets as key individual or environmental resources that enable and nurture young people to develop in healthy, positive ways. According to the survey, 72 p...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY - A 47-year-old Ironwood woman waived her right to a preliminary hearing and was bound over for trial Tuesday morning 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 Wendy Wuorinen is alleged to have withdrawn around $7,613 from the Iron County Community Credit Union in Kimball from a customer's account without authorization. The withdrawals occurred from November 2014 to December 2015 while she was employed there, according to the criminal...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — A crowd of around 50 people gathered at the Iron County Memorial Building for a discussion of plans for trailheads in Hurley and Montreal. The Hurley trailhead is planned to be located between the Montreal River and Second Avenue/U.S. 51, roughly parallel with Silver Street. It is designed to serve both non-motorized and motorized trail users at where the Iron County trail system connects to Michigan’s trails. The other trailhead would also be located along the Montreal River, all...
HURLEY - To reduce costs, the U.S. Army has decided to merge several Reserve units around the country, including closing the 312th Engineer Company in Hurley. The Reserve unit has been housed in the Hurley Industrial Park for more than 30 years and has rented the training center from the Iron County Resource Development Association, Inc. "The development corporation built the building and it was designed specifically for the Reserves," said Jack Giovanoni, president of the ICRDA. "Because of...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER — Ther Bessemer City Council agreed on Monday to offer the city manager position to Charly Loper, of Anaconda, Mont. Over the course of several weeks, the city council has conducted numerous interviews. “We are very pleased with the individuals that did apply, “Mayor Kathy Whitburn said. “We had really great quality applicants.” After evaluating their options, the council agreed Loper is the right person for the job, Whitburn said. Loper has tentatively accepted the position, pending r...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — With the number of heroin overdoses in Ironwood and across the nation rising, the Ironwood Public Safety Department has trained and equipped its officers with Narcan, used in drug cases. “When officers arrive on the scene of overdoses with unconscious subjects, they can administer Narcan, which reduces the side effects of the substance the individual may have overdosed on,” said IPSD Director Andrew DiGiorgio, People who have overdosed and receive Narcan are then transported to Aspir...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — October is breast cancer awareness month and the free mammograms sponsored by the Ontonagon County Cancer Association will be held for two weeks out of the month. Cancer association president Bev Meagher announced the weeks of Oct. 10-14 and 17-21 will be free mammograms. Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., women can call (906)884-8137 to schedule a mammogram. In consideration for the employees at Aspirus Hospital, no calls for appointments should be made until Oct. 10. No insurance w...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] HURLEY - Area football fans came together to watch the Range Bulldogs play against the Ashland Oredockers at Veterans Memorial Field in Hurley. Standing alongside his players, head coach Eric Thier said football was a passion for him growing up and has enjoyed "the heck out of" coaching for the past five years. The Range Bulldogs are part of the Pop Warner football League and the team consists of fourth, fifth and sixth graders from both Michigan and...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Gogebic Medical Care Facility hosted an open house Saturday afternoon. Several staff members, including certified nursing assistant Scott Pospeck, took visitors along a tour and talked about the facility and what Gogebic Medical does. The facility is home to over 100 "fascinating people," Pospeck said as the tour walked by a resident's living quarters. He said Gogebic Medical offers residents certified nursing and extensive rehabilitation...
WHITE PINE - For Jane Dickow, it was a positive attitude and a surprising "God Wink" that got her through her experience with breast cancer. When Dickow had her regular mammogram 10 years ago, the nurse told her to wait to put her clothes on because they needed "another review." She said her first thought was, "Here we go." Dickow's mom had breast cancer in the 1950s and a radical mastectomy while still in her 40s. It was a shock, but, "I knew I would be OK and I just wanted to get on with the...
HURLEY — The Federal Communications Commission is currently accepting public comment on a petition by Gray Television/WSAW-TV to include Ashland and Iron counties in its Wausau, Wis., satellite television market. According to information presented at Tuesday’s Iron County Board of Supervisors meeting, the petition is requesting that area satellite TV providers be allowed to provide the two counties with Wausau’s feed, instead of being forced to provide the feed from Duluth. When the broadcast boundaries were initially established, Iron Count...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission was asked this week to contribute $5,000 toward the restoration of the Hiawatha Indian statue. John Rudberg appeared before the commissioners to update them on fund-raising efforts. Rudberg said around $13,000 has been raised toward the restoration, but the fund drive is running out of steam and he suggested the commission include $5,000 in its next budget as the city’s contribution. The entire renovation project is estimated at $20,000. After 52 years, Rud...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — Iron County and local officials took part in a statewide “Turnout for Transportation” meeting Thursday night to discuss the lack of adequate road funding in Wisconsin. Meetings happened simultaneously in every county in the state. Iron County Highway Commissioner Mike Swartz said a meeting like this had never been done before and indicated how serious the state’s road funding problem is. After a short video featuring representatives that sponsored the meeting — including the Wisconsin...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] Students in Ironwood and Hurley cap off a jam-packed homecoming week today. Throughout the week, they dressed in themed clothing and showed their school spirit by decorating hallways with posters rooting for their team. Outside the classroom, students participated in competitions to see which grade is the best. To kick off the school week at Ironwood K-12, students wore clothes featuring their favorite sports teams. After school, girls participated in...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - City Commissioner Jim Mildren is impressed with the new stretch of the Iron Belle Trail from Ironwood to Bessemer. City commissioners learned Monday the non-motorized trail construction is nearly finished. The trail will tentatively be dedicated at an Oct. 24 ceremony at the Bessemer end. The Ironwood stretch of the hiking-biking trail has been in use for more than a year and a Friends of the Iron Belle Trail group has organized. It will...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The Gogebic Range Broadband Committee, Wednesday, learned some details of the ceremony planned to mark Iron County’s reception of a broadband expansion grant. According to Iron County Development Zone Coordinator Kelly Klein, one of the people involved in obtaining the grant, the ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 9 at one of the fire towers that is being purchased through the grant. “The committee, along with the county board and development corporation, will all be invited (to the cerem...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — Iron County Judge Patrick Madden on Tuesday gave a Superior man who previously pleaded no contest to a heroin count one last chance to stay out of prison. Bernie Sanders, 47, had received a deferred sentence in 2015 on a charge of possession with intent to deliver heroin. On Tuesday, acting Iron County District Attorney Fritz Schellgell recommended Sanders be sentenced to 18 months in prison and 18 months of extended supervision for violating conditions set in the deferred prosecution a...
