Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners commended the county road commission Wednesday evening for its response to the severe storm that devastated the area, particularity Little Girl’s Point, two weeks ago. “On behalf of the county board, thank you for the road commission,” board chairman Joe Bonovetz said. Road Commission Manager Darren Pionk said temporary repairs are still ongoing. He said the National Guard saved the road commission “a ton of money and time” needed to make the Lake Road and Powers Road area passable. T...
HURLEY - Town, county and state officials gathered at the Iron County Forestry and Highway building Tuesday morning to meet with representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency regarding the cost of damages from the heavy rains and flooding that hit the region earlier this month. The meeting began with preliminary damage assessments of the various road washouts and damage to Saxon Harbor, before the group travelled to a number of storm-damaged sites - including the harbor - to see...
T BESSEMER - Following the severe thunderstorm of July 11 that devastated Little Girl's Point, the Gogebic County Road Commission is "hard at work" repairing roads in the surrounding area. Road commission manager Darren Pionk said Tuesday the commission has begun surveying and designing plans for the eight major sections of Lake Road that were damaged by the flash floods. Pionk said the damages total about $5.5 million. Down the road, Pionk said the commission has suspended all future road...
The Iron County Heritage Festival continues tonight with a presentation about life in the Civilian Conservation Corps. Beginning at 6 p.m. in the Iron County Historical Museum, Jeff Suzik will talk about growing up in the CCC during the Great Depression. The presentation is sponsored the by Range History, Geography and Geology Club. The festival continues Friday as Highline Corporation will host an open house to celebrate its 50th anniversary from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Meanwhile, the Iron County Historical Society will celebrate Heritage Day at...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Monday’s Ironwood Township Board of Trustees meeting began with the addition of Treasurer Jyl Renee Olson-DeRosso’s resignation to the meeting agenda. Following a closed session to discuss personnel issues, the board accepted Olson-DeRosso’s resignation, effective Aug. 22. In addition to accepting the resignation, the board also voted to ask the Michigan State Police to begin an investigation in order to “assist (the township) in resolving discrepancies in the audit that the we could not resolve ourselves,” according t...
WAKEFIELD-Following the thunderstorm that swept through Wakefield two weeks ago, city officials and the community joined forces to recover. As a result of the strong straight-line winds during the storm, several properties were damaged and lost power. City manager Richard Brackney said residents and city employees responded "tremendously" in the wake of the storm to begin cleaning up uprooted trees and debris. "It was just the community being a community," he said. "Lots of volunteers came out...
HURLEY - The Hoffman Estates (Ill.) High School cross country team are training in Hurley this week. For the past 10 years, assistant coach Matthew Ihms said the team has traveled from northwestern suburbs of Illinois to Wisconsin to train during the summer. In 1970s, head coach Kirk Macnider's father participated in the Paavo Nurmi Marathon and won. Macnider said his father inspired him to bring his cross country team to Hurley. Sixteen team members made the trip this year. The team consists...
IRONWOOD - Area artists displayed their work this past weekend at the Range Art Association's 61st annual Art Show at the Ironwood Memorial Building. Association president Nancy Korpela said she was pleased with the quality of art submitted this year. "The artists submitted very professional work this year," she said. Wildlife artist John McFaul judged the 43 entrees. After careful consideration, Kate Greenough's "Lady Madonna" won Best in Show. Greenough said she labeled her artwork after the...
WAKEFIELD - The Wakefield Historical Society Museum held its annual Wash Day on Saturday afternoon. Several local children attended the event. The museum had several vintage washing implements out on the lawn. The children were outfitted with aprons and bandanas before they took to the basket of "dirty" laundry. Several volunteers from the museum were on hand to teach the kids about how laundry was done before the invention of modern washers and dryers. The volunteers brought out and explained...
Iron County students attended the county’s annual 4-H summer camps earlier this month, an opportunity to get away from home and interact with their peers in a different setting. Children in third through fifth grade attended the traditional camp at North Lakeland Discovery Center in Manitowish Waters from July 12 to 15, while those in sixth and seventh grades attended outpost camp at Lake of the Falls. The camp at the discovery center — now in its 16th year — offers a range of activities including swimming, nature activities, archery and arts a...
ASHLAND, Wis. - Xcel Energy crews continue to tackle restoring electricity to 3,000 area customers impacted by Thursday's severe storms. The company said 20,000 people lost power after the storms, primarily in Ashland, Hayward and Ironwood. "We recognize that power outages are challenging for our customers, particularly with the extreme heat, and we appreciate their patience. Be sure to stay safe in these conditions and check on elderly family members, neighbors and friends and take advantage...
HURLEY - Fifteen officials from various state agencies met with nine Iron County and local town officials Friday to discuss assistance programs and other information in the wake of the July 11-12 storm and flooding. Jerry Mentzel, of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, said there are many avenues and agencies to help for the affected areas across the seven-county disaster area. Three other regional WDOT officials spoke about their work in Iron County and willingness to continue to work...
HURLEY — The Hurley High School had a Swiss presence during the 2015-’16 school year, as the Hurley school and community played host to Rotary Youth Exchange student Kylie Raymund, of Horgen, Switzerland. Raymund, 17, arrived in Hurley in mid-August 2015, and will be leaving to return to her home in Switzerland on Monday. Horgen is small community south of Zurich on the shores of the Lake of Zurich. The Ironwood-Hurley Rotary Club sponsored Raymund’s year-long exchange, and she was hosted by Monica Kutz, of Hurley, and Amy and Ken Wyka, of Mo...
A severe storm that slashed through northern Wisconsin and the western Upper Peninsula Thursday morning knocked down countless trees and power lines. Scattered power outages were reported across the Gogebic Range after the early morning storm produced some 60 mph winds and heavy lightning. The sudden storm around 4:30 a.m. dumped a half inch of rain on Ironwood at the Gogebic-Iron Wastewater Treatment Plant off Cloverland Drive, according to the National Weather Service office in Marquette. The...
HURLEY - An Aug. 18 arraignment has been scheduled for a Saxon, Wis., man who faces murder and arson charges. Donald Rick, 44, appeared in Iron County Court Thursday afternoon before Judge Patrick Madden and waived his right to a preliminary examination. Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General Richard Dufour, who is prosecuting the case, said he would have liked to proceed with the arraignment on Thursday, but defense attorney Courtney Latzig said she would prefer a later date, suggesting Aug. 18....
BESSEMER — The second defendant in the Sunset Road methamphetamine lab case pleaded guilty in Gogebic County Circuit Court Tuesday to one count of operating/maintaining a meth lab. Sara Anne Harris, 31, of Ironwood Township, pleaded guilty to the 20-year felony as part of a plea agreement that has three other charges — a second count of operating a meth lab and two counts of operating a meth lab near a residence — as well as a conspiracy charge, dismissed at sentencing. Gogebic County Prosecutor Nick Jacobs said Harris admitted to her role...
SAXON, Wis. - Workers at Saxon Harbor on Wednesday retrieved the final sunken boat they had locations for as they continued to deal with the aftermath of the July 11-12 storm that flooded Saxon Harbor. Shortly after 4 p.m., a team comprised of T&T Marine Salvage, Cheyboygan, Michigan-based Durocher Marine and Great Lakes Diving and Salvage loaded the hull of a 42-foot 1978 Hatteras, owned by Neil Gilbertson, of Saxon, onto a barge for transport back to the harbor. The operation was overseen by a...
IRONWOOD — The Gogebic Community College Board of Trustees hired two people and accepted the resignation of a longtime instructor at its meeting Tuesday evening. The trustees approved the retirement request from Alex Marciniak after 35 years of teaching, effective Aug. 1. Marciniak began his career at GCC in 1981, teaching part-time, and for the past several years was full-time. He has taught courses in music history, music appreciation, history of theatre, drama, music theory, piano, film courses and public speaking. He also served on n...
HURLEY - The Iron County Highway Committee authorized an agreement with the state of Wisconsin that will allow repairs to the portion of County A in Saxon washed out during last week's storm to begin as soon as possible. "Looking at A and the urgency of getting down to the harbor, last Tuesday we started asking questions if we could run it through our emergency let so we could get it done and out the door, designed quicker," Nick Vos, with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's...
HURLEY — The Hurley School Board will likely look at a possible $200,000 tax levy increase in the fall, according to district administrator Chris Patritto. Patritto told school board members Monday that as it stands now, the district would lose about $100,000 in state aid for the 2016-’17 school year. The figures are preliminary and the board won’t act on adopting the 2017 tax levy until the annual meeting in the fall. In other business Monday, board members learned radio station WUPM-WHRY in Ironwood will broadcast all Hurley home and away spe...
LITTLE GIRL'S POINT - Gov. Rick Snyder took an aerial tour of Little Girl's Point Monday morning to see the after effects of last week's storm. Snyder - who declared a state of emergency for Gogebic County Friday - traveled by helicopter to survey the washouts on Lake Road, which occurred after heavy rains July 11 caused widespread flooding on the Point and left many residents stranded of several days. Following the tour, Snyder landed in the boat-launch parking lot next to Oman's Creek and...
ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon Area Board of Education Monday approved placing a millage request on the November ballot. The request, if approved, would cost voters less in taxes than they are presently paying. Superintendent Jim Bobula said, if approved, .5 mill would be used to purchase four new buses over the next one to two years. The district is also asking for 1.5 mills for building and facility upgrades. Since two present millage proposals will expire this year and in 2017, if approved, the millage would be one-tenth less than what O...
