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Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] HURLEY - The Hurley Lioness will host the 12th annual Brian Nasi Memorial Heart Walk-Run Saturday morning. From the beginning, organizers have claimed the event is a great opportunity for everyone to get out and enjoy the outdoors, but most importantly, to exercise their heart and stay healthy and strong. "It's all about healthy living," said co-race director and Lioness member Ricky Kelly. "We're trying to promote running in youth, so they start...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] HURLEY — The junior varsity covered the Hurley city council meeting and normal Daily Globe reporter Ralph Ansami’s absence due to vacation was noted by the council. The city council was surprisingly jovial and even has nicknames for all the members on the council, which was a surprise to discover. The council agreed to award Ross Peterson the 2017 utility project in the amount of $906,219, contingent on the receipt of funds from the Army Corps of Engineers and a follow on financial review by Stacey W...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - Residents of Bessemer are going to wake up today to the nearly complete removal of a blighted structure on South Sophie Street. The structure at 206 S. Sophie Street has been before the council for years and finally was slotted for removal Monday. Paul Luppino, son of Angelo Luppino, said they expected to have everything gone by today and use Wednesday to fill in the remaining hole. Luppino said the tear down was basically a two man job....
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Expressing concern about the loss of local control, the Ironwood Township Board of Trustees agreed Monday to send Gov. Rick Snyder a letter in opposition to a proposed law changing the way small copper mines are regulated. Supervisor Steve Boyd initially brought up concerns about the loss of local control in SB 129 — which changes the way smaller, native copper mines are regulated — saying that while the the most recent version of the bill allows for water quality monit...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — Stakeholders from various groups interested in the rebuilding of Saxon Harbor met Thursday with engineers involved in the harbor’s design process to discuss what they would like to see included in the new harbor. “(These sessions are) about gathering information … so we understand what the community wants before we put pencil to paper. That’s critical to our design process,” Jason Stangland, with the firm Smithgroup JJR, told the Daily Globe after one of the sessions. The meetings we...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] KIMBALL, Wis. - Regardless of one's favorite type of pie, there was a decent chance it was available at the Kimball Community Center Saturday as the Kimball Homemakers held its annual pie social and craft show. The pie social has been a staple for the organization for the least three to four decades; raising funds for a variety of charitable causes, organizer Mary Smith said. "All of our funds go back into the community," she said. While the group h...
IRONWOOD — A man was arrested early Sunday morning in Ironwood on a burglary related charge. The man, 28 — who authorities are declining to identify until his arraignment Monday — was arrested on the charge of possession of burglar’s tools at 1 a.m. Sunday. Gogebic County Prosecutor Nick Jacobs authorized a warrant for the 10-year felony, according to a Gogebic Iron Area Narcotics Team press release. The man recently moved to the area from Stevens Point, Wis., according to the release, and is being held at the Gogebic County Sheriff’s Departmen...
IRONWOOD - Ironwood's Galaxies may be entering Michigan's Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame. The four-man group that performed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when rock was young, is in the running for the hall in online voting. Of the four members, only Andy Abraham, 75, of Hurley, is still alive. Other Galaxies included Bernie Michelli, Danny Sullivan and Greg Winn. Danny Sullivan Jr., of Bessemer, said the Galaxies cut two records. He said a display on the Galaxies can be viewed at the Iron...
HURLEY - The Hurley Lions Club, with 40 to 50 members, is active in providing eyeglasses to the second and third world. To do this, the club maintains an old mailbox it painted purple and stationed in Giovanoni's store for people to drop off old eyeglasses. Smaller containers are stationed around the area for collection at other locations, including some eye doctor offices. Dave Traczyk, a Lions Club member since 1979, said each club decides which projects to align itself with. The Hurley club...
BESSEMER — An Ashland man was remanded to district court Tuesday, the third co-defendant to be remanded in a Gogebic County drug case. Corey Allan Tutor, 34, was facing one 10-year felony count of possession of methamphetamine and a misdemeanor charge of disorderly person-loitering about an illegal business, however Gogebic County Prosecutor Nick Jacobs said the testing of evidence in the case didn’t bear out the initial charges. Jacobs said he plans to file amended charges against Tutor, replacing the meth charge with one count of use of cocai...
GILE, Wis. - Most fishermen are used to seeing the unfortunate sight of strands of monofilament fishing line in the water and surrounding brush, a sight the Friends of the Gile Flowage hopes becomes less common. It has recently installed PVC-pipe fishing line recycling units at boat launches around the flowage. As the monofilament isn't biodegradable, it can pose a hazard to the flowage's animals, according to Cathy Techtmann, FOG president. "As a high-density plastic, it can persist in the...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Two Luther L. Wright students are putting the wood shop to good use. Brandon Nielsen and Donny Jarvenpaa, both 17, are active in Alison Stehlik's shop room. Stehlik is the daughter of a shop teacher, so before wondering what a female is doing teaching shop, remember it is 2017 and her dad ran a shop class and she did the natural thing to do in following in his footsteps. Besides, who does not like the smell of cut wood? Nielsen and...
SILVER CITY — Experienced sawyers with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources are heading to Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park to help clean up downed trees from last week’s snow and ice storm. On April 26-27, higher elevations at the park received up to an inch of ice, which was then covered by two to four inches of snow. Numerous trees were weighed down and weakened by the thick coating of ice and snow. With 40 to 50 miles of the park’s roughly 90 miles of hiking trails assessed so far, 17 miles of trails are in “extr...
HURLEY - In addition to providing valuable evidence in case they become lost or abducted, Wednesday's fingerprinting session at the Hurley K-12 school allowed students to bond with police officers. Police Chief Chris Colassaco and officer Don Packmayer began the collection effort early in the morning in Tonette Obradovich's kindergarten classroom, where the students were eager to dab their fingers in the ink. Colassaco explained to the youngsters that no two fingerprints are alike before each...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Billy Demong, olympic gold medalist in Nordic Combined, CMO for Reynolds Cycling in Utah, and executive director of the USA Nordic Sports team, visited Gogebic Community College and spoke to local area high school students Wednesday morning. Demong is the classic determined, over-achieving, pull yourself up by the bootstraps kind of guy most Americans love, because he not only talks the talk, he walks the walk. Demong, by all appearances...
MARQUETTE — David Kel Baldwin Jr., 45, of Watersmeet, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney also ordered Baldwin to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, pay a $2,000 fine and a $100 special assessment. Baldwin pleaded guilty to the charge Feb. 2. The charge stems from Aug. 12, 2016, when Baldwin — who is an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona — assau...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER - Voters rejected a Bessemer Area Schools bond proposal in Tuesday's special election by a vote of 604 to 354, blocking the district's plan to turn A.D. Johnston into a K-12 building. Voters in the city of Bessemer voted 385 to 234 against the proposal, while voters in Bessemer Township voted 219 to 120 against the measure. Voter turnout was 34 percent in the election, with 36 percent of Bessemer voters and 30.9 percent of Bessemer Township...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] ONTONAGON — County voters rejected an Ontonagon Area School request for a renewal of the district’s sinking fund, voting 367 to 323 against the proposal on Tuesday’s ballot. The measure — which only 46.8 percent of voters supported in the polls — would have provided funds to update original equipment and fixtures as needed in the 50 year old building. The district had requested 1.9 mills; a decrease from the 2.15 mills that is dropping off the tax rolls this month, according to Superinte...
SILVER CITY - Roads have been reopened at the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park after ice and snow felled hundreds of trees last week. Jeff Gaertner, park supervisor, said Tuesday, "All roads are open and passable, but park motorists should expect some wood and debris on park roads." Highway 107 to Lake of the Clouds and the road to Summit Peak were closed late Thursday as trees weakened by a thick coating of ice and snow continued to fall, hampering efforts of clean-up crews. The road...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The towns of Gurney and Saxon have declared a state of emergency following Wednesday’s ice storm, enabling them to qualify for state funds for the clean-up effort. The declarations are required to receive funds from the Wisconsin Disaster Fund, according to Iron County Emergency Management Director Stacy Ofstad. “It’s a source for the towns (to get reimbursed) some money when it’s a small enough event it doesn’t need state or federal designation,” Ofstad said. “It’s ... a mechanism to help...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - It did not take long Monday for the divisions on the city council to rear their head. It began with mayor Kathy Whitburn reading Star Kolesar's letter regarding the noxious fumes near her house. John Frello followed Whitburn by reading his own letter for addition to the Documents and Correspondence of the city regarding what he considered Ad Hominem attacks on his person at previous meetings. Frello wished to address events from past...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — Veteran weather watchers on the Gogebic Range were scratching their heads to remember an ice storm quite like the one that arrived Wednesday and blanketed the Gogebic Range for two days. The storm caused numerous Xcel Energy power outages that lingered through Saturday in the Saxon-Gurney area as thousands of trees and branches came down under the weight of the ice. All of that ice came crashing to the ground when the temperature hit the 40s on Friday. The sound of the melting ice was a...
