Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The Bessemer Department of Public Works "knew something was up for a couple of days," according to department head Neal Nelson. DPW workers noticed a higher than normal flow of water coming through the water system, but they did not know where the problem was. Before the break became evident on Tuesday evening, a resident on the 100 block of East Gold Street called to inform a friend that she was hearing a strange sound coming from her...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — With a little less than a month until the event, planning continues for Iron County’s upcoming horticulture therapy summit. The summit is scheduled from March 1-3 and will be centered around the Iron County Memorial Building in Hurley. The event’s registration deadline is Feb. 20. For those who are unsure of what exactly horticulture therapy is, organizers explained it is a broad field of study regarding the use of plants and gardening to improve lives. “It’s using gardening to improve w...
WAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP - Wakefield Township Supervisor John Cox informed the Daily Globe the town board on Tuesday voted to leave the Western Gateway Trail Authority. He said the move was made because the township does not include any part of the trail. Cox said township officials brought up the fact there is no funding mechanism for trail maintenance and that is a sticking point made repeatedly. Township officials feel there is no reason for them to pay for Ironwood and Bessemer's trail, when they...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — Iron County is in the process of retaining the Milwaukee-based law firm von Briesen and Roper to help the county navigate the federal assistance process for the rebuilding of Saxon Harbor. While the matter still needs to formally be approved by the Iron County Board of Supervisors' Finance Committee, county officials have already been in contact with the firm. The firm is being retained for its expertise in large construction projects, County Forestry and Parks Administrator Eric P...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MERCER, Wis. - McDermott Lake, located in the town of Sherman, is one of the lakes being considered for a new experiment that hopes to be the key to bringing back declining walleye populations across Wisconsin. Representatives from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin's Center for Limnology and the Cooperative Fisheries Research Unit at UW-Stevens Point held a discussion at the Mercer Town Hall Monday to gauge...
WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield Volunteer Fire Department's annual ice fishing contest is set for Saturday, Feb. 18, during Michigan's free fishing weekend. The contest is held on Sunday Lake at the Wakefield VFW post from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Proceeds from the tourney will be used to purchase fire suppression equipment. Kids under 3 are free for the contest. Kids 12 and under cost $3. Kids 13 and over cost $5. The first registered fish wins $25 and the smallest fish wins $50. Twinklz' face painting and Slow Poke Da Clown will be on-site. Tickets can b...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - Something was amiss from the get go. The council chamber was almost full fifteen minutes before the meeting was scheduled to start. By the time the meeting started every chair was full and people were taking seats and standing in the hallway outside council chambers. Most city council meetings draw about six people. Monday nights city council meeting in Bessemer had no less than 30 people and likely more. To the Daily Globe, seated in the...
WAKEFIELD - The Michigan Department of Natural Resources issued a use permit to Orvana Resources U.S. Corp., a subsidiary of Highland Copper, to conduct exploratory drilling. The drilling is on a one-mile-square piece of property situated along the westernmost edge of Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in Gogebic County. The drilling began Sunday and is scheduled to continue into early March, depending on weather conditions. "This drilling project will affect a very small portion of...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] WAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP — Wakefield Township residents will see a new truck collecting their garbage this spring, as the township recently switched collection services to the Gogebic Range Solid Waste Management Authority. The change will take effect April 1, after the township board awarded the contract to the authority’s low bid. According to Wakefield Township Supervisor John Cox, the authority is charging the township a monthly fee of $14.35 per household. The township’s previous collector, Waste...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] OMA, Wis. - A gem of a snowshoe trail marked with blue diamonds is available to the public on Iron County land just south of Schomberg Park in Oma. John Bates and a handful of members of Iron County Outdoor Recreation Enthusiasts trekked the 1.7-mile trail on a perfect Saturday, as the county forest shielded the wind and the temperature was around 20 degrees. Bates, a naturalist, offered observations along the way and was impressed with the quality of...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - Some like it red, others creamy, but for the Midwest Cat Clowder at Big Powderhorn Mountain on Saturday, conditions were excellent, with intermittent snow and mid-20-s temperatures. Sno-Cat enthusiasts gathered to show off their machines and talk to other hobbyists, as well as an interested public. The Sno-Cat is the brainchild of the late E.M. Tucker, Sr., who grew up walking to school through deep snow in the early 1900s near Grant's...
By ISABELLE KLEINSCHMIDT [email protected] IRONWOOD — Warren Nelson and Friends (Otis McLennon, Ed Willett, Cheryl Leah, and Nelson’s son Rowan Nelson-Ferris) gave a lively show at the Historic Ironwood Theatre on Saturday night. The show opened with HIT Idol high school category youth vocalist Eddie Corrothers from Ewan-Trout Creek on piano. The group comprised of Nelson on guitar, Otis McLennon on harmonica, Ed Willett on cello, Cheryl Leah on vocals, and Nelson’s son Rowan Nelson-Ferris on banjo, playing an array of Northwoods theme...
BESSEMER - The Bessemer library is preparing a return of its Family Fun events the first Saturday of the month at 11 a.m. Family Fun consists of stories, art projects and treats. According to Melissa Rajala, librarian, it has been some time since the library offered Family Fun and this is a great opportunity for people to use their local library. Upcoming themes for Family fun are: -Feb. 4: Valentine's Day. -March 4: Dr. Seuss's Birthday Day. -April 1: Easter. -May 6: Mothers Day. In June, the...
BESSEMER — The Michigan State University Extension office in Bessemer is hosting parenting classes every Monday from 4-5:30 p.m. Classes will be at the Extension office on North Moore Street. Last year, the classes were early in the afternoon and according to Erin Ross, interfered with many peoples’ work schedules. This year they made the classes later in the day to accommodate schedules, while also still being available for public transportation. Ross said, “beyond those required to take the parenting classes by the MDHHS, many day care provi...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] HURLEY - The Hurley Fireworks Committee has two events planned to generate funds to pay for the summer fireworks display. On Saturday, the Mid-Winter Snow Ball at the Iron County Memorial Building is being held and on Feb. 11 the Gile Snowshoe, bonfire and music festivus closes the fundraiser. Snow Ball live entertainment kicks off at 4 p.m., featuring Brad Emmanuel. At 8 p.m., The White House Players perform and are scheduled to play through...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Vintage Sno-Cat machines will once again journey to Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort Saturday as the ski hill plays host to the third annual Midwest Cat Clowder. As closed-cabbed, tracked vehicles, Sno-Cats and other groomers have been used from Alaska to Antarctica for jobs ranging from building pipelines to grooming ski hills. The clowder — the name of a group of Cats — is one of four shows in the country for those who collect the vintage machines, according to Powderhorn Gener...
IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Planning Commission Thursday approved a five-year Capital Improvement Plan for the city. The plan will go before the five-member city commission for final approval. The CIP is part of the city’s comprehensive plan and is a sort of “wish list” of projects that might be tackled if funding is available. Many of the projects are contingent on the availability of grants. Many park projects in the city, for example, were funded in the past five-year CIP, which is necessary in the grant application process. In other busines...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - Jim Morrison, the deceased lead singer of the Doors sang, "This is the end, beautiful friend. This is the end, my only friend, the end. Of our elaborate plans, the end. Of everything that stands, the end. No safety or surprise, the end. I'll never look into your eyes, again," in their hit song, The End. These lyrics are apropos for the end of the Chamber in Bessemer. Former Bessemer Chamber of Commerce president Kathy Whitburn said, "The...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — More seasonable temperatures have returned to the Ironwood area as the January thaw has come to an end. The slippery conditions produced by temperatures near freezing have been replaced by more frigid air, with lows near zero. There’s more bitter cold temperatures and some sunshine in the forecast. Saturday, with a high of 24 forecast, should be ideal for the snowshoe hike from 1 to 3 p.m. beginning at Schomberg Park in Oma, along U.S. 51. It was a sunny 13 degrees at noon on Wednesday in...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] Gogebic and Ontonagon counties are among the most vulnerable counties in the state to the potential repeal of President Barack Obama’s health care law, according to a Bridge Magazine report published in January. The report, which looked at the correlation between the number of residents using either Medicaid expansion or Obamacare plans and how each county voted in the presidential election, found the two counties were among 27 in Michigan with more than 11 percent of their populations through s...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - While the plan to rebuild Saxon Harbor following its destruction in the rain and flooding during the July 11 storm continues to take shape - with the Iron County Board of Supervisors voting to reroute County A through the old campground Tuesday - several items remain on hold while the county awaits decisions from various parts of the federal government. The county board voted in December to rebuild Saxon Harbor's marina and campground to...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - On Tuesday afternoon the GCC board convened to conduct school related business and heard an update on a grant increase they approved last year for the TRiO Mentoring Program operated by Jessica Leinon-Novascone, TRiO Director. The grant increase totaled $7,427 for the 2016-17 academic year. According to Leinon-Novascone, the TRiO program pairs first year students as mentees with a second or third year student as a mentor. The mentor and...
