Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY - A Ramsay man who faces prison time on heroin and meth charges in Gogebic County was sentenced in Iron County Court Tuesday to three years in the Wisconsin prison system for delivery of methamphetamines. Michael Johnson, 21, was also sentenced by Judge Patrick Madden to four years of extended supervision and assessed fines and court costs of $2,500. He must seek alcohol and drug counseling and submit DNA samples, among other provisions of the...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER - To encourage fishing at Massie Pond in Bluff Valley Park, David Rowe's 10th grade biology class stocked 23 brook trout into the four-foot deep pond Tuesday morning in continuation of a "real-life" biology experiment. In October, Rowe, an A.D. Johnston High School biology teacher, conducted a fish census with his class to estimate the population at the 1.5-acre pond, using a capture/recapture method. Students captured other species of fish...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — Iron County will continue to prohibit motorcycles on all-terrain vehicle trails in the county. The Iron County Forestry and Parks Committee agreed Tuesday to keep the ban in place, at least until the state devises a way to provide additional revenue for trail upkeep. “The reason this has come about is the state has recently passed a new law that is going to allow motorcycle use on ATV trails,” County Forest Administrator Eric Peterson said. “The state has approved ... the formati...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Road Commission approved Monday evening a bridge design proposal and a bridge inspection proposal both from Brian Hintsala, of AECOM Technology. Darren Pionk, road commission engineer-manager, said the bridge design proposal of $61,216 from AECOM is for bridges on Kimberly Road and East Shore Road in Marenisco Township. Pionk said Hintsala has been the commission’s “bridge engineer” for the last 5 years and he designed “quite a few” bridges in Gogebic County. Dan Sirrila...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — Testifying via video feed from the Iron County Jail, Michael Scott Johnson, 21, Ramsay, pled guilty to possession of methamphetamine and possession with intent to deliver heroin in Gogebic County Circuit Court in Bessemer Monday. The plea was part of a deal that will result in six additional charges and a habitual offender-third offense designation dismissed by the Gogebic County Prosecutor’s Office. Both felony charges Johnson pled gui...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — John Raymond Davis, 41, pled guilty to two felony counts in Gogebic County Circuit Court Monday, in relation to a methamphetamine lab discovered March 30 in a Sunset Road apartment unit in Ironwood Township. “On March 30, I was in the process of making methamphetamine when the cops showed up,” Davis testified during the court appearance. In exchange to pleading guilty to charges of operating/maintaining a meth lab and conspiracy to opera...
KIMBALL Wis. - A Lake Nebagamon, Wis., man was injured in a roll-over accident on U.S. 2 near Little Finland in Kimball Saturday. Lance Richard Adolphson, 46, rolled his car, landing near the tree line, at approximately 5:59 p.m. Saturday, according to an ICSD report. The accident slowed traffic for approximately an hour. Adolphson was transported to Aspirus Grand View, according to the report, by Beacon Ambulance. No information was available regarding his condition....
KIMBALL, Wis - The Kimball Homemakers held its annual pie social and craft show at the Kimball Community Center Saturday. "We're full and we're doing well," said Mary Smith, the group's president. "Lunchtime is always a good time, get a little more foot traffic through." Along with delicious slices of homemade pie, Saturday's menu also featured homemade soups and barbecue sandwiches. The Kimball Homemakers have been around for 50 years, Smith said, and have probably been holding the social for...
The National Finnish-American Festival Chorus preformed its annual Mother's Day Concert on Sunday at the Zion Lutheran Church in Ironwood. Gary Schlais opened the concert with a few solo pieces on the accordion. Under direction of Gale Hellier, the chorus sang several traditional songs from Finland with a focus on giving thanks to mothers. Susan Kontny accompanied on the flute, while Sandy Rowoldt played the piano. Other soloists on the program included Dorothy Walesewicz on accordion and Susan...
IRONWOOD - Thunder and flashing lights occurred both inside and outside the Gogebic Community College Lindquist Center gymnasium at Friday's graduation ceremonies. The inside stuff was flashing light bulbs from cameras, while the outside thunder and light show came from Mother Nature. GCC president James Lorenson was nearly drowned out by the thunder as he began to introduce the 82nd GCC commencement speaker, Dr. Randy Smith, president of the Rural Community College Alliance. Smith, from...
IRONWOOD — With temperatures reaching the low 90s across the Gogebic Range Friday, weather records were broken. It soared to 93 degrees on Friday afternoon in downtown Ironwood and that far surpassed the previous record for May 6-7 of 86 set in 1926. The Marquette office of the National Weather Service keeps records for Ironwood dating to 1901. It wasn’t a muggy type of heat as the humidity ranged in the mid-20s throughout Friday, with a slight south breeze adding to the fire danger in the area. Ironwood had received only .10 inch of rain in...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER - Ironwood Township resident Donald Kirby, 28, entered guilty pleas to possessing heroin with intent to deliver and a felony firearm charge Thursday in Gogebic County Circuit Court, as part of a deal with Gogebic County Prosecutor Nick Jacobs. The possession charge carries a potential maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and/or a $25,000 fine. The felony firearms charge carries a maximum two-year prison sentence. Jacobs told the Daily...
While parts of the county are still experiencing wet conditions associated with early spring, Iron County’s all-terrain vehicle trails open today. The Thursday announcement came from the Iron County Forestry and Parks Department. “Please be respectful and stay within the marked trail beds,” Trail Coordinator Tara Krall said. “Off-trail riding will lead to trail closures.” ATV trails have been closed since the end of snowmobile season on March 10. —Richard Jenkins...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] Unlike other recent fishing openers where large snowflakes greeted fishermen, Saturday's weather looks good in northern Wisconsin. It won't be quite as warm as today's 80-degree predicted temperature, with readings in the low 60s, but snowsuits won't be required, either. Fishermen will head to their favorite streams and lakes and they have hundreds of choices in northern Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has been conducting...
Friday, May 6 Double Trouble, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Serenity Center, Ironwood. Mercer Food Pantry, noon-1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Wis. Emergencies: 715-476-7655. Alcoholics Anonymous/Al-Anon, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Church Women United May Friendship Day, 1:30 p.m., Wesley Methodist Church, Ironwood. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EDT, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org.... Full story
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] UPSON, Wis. — The traditional kids’ fishing opener on Weber Lake has been moved back a week this year to Saturday, May 14. The Youth Fishing Jamboree is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon and the first 50 children to be signed up will receive a free rod and reel combination and a lunch of hot dogs, bratwursts and soft drinks, sponsored by the Superior Bass Fishing Club. Members of that club, with the help of many other volunteers, will assist youths and their families at the jamboree. Bait will be pro...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] IRONWOOD - The newly formed Eating Healthy and Physical Activity Coalition announced its plan Wednesday to encourage healthy living throughout the area. For the past year, Andrea Newby, from the Iron County Human Services Department; Amy Nosal, from the University of Wisconsin Extension office; Megan Martell, from the Michigan State University Extension office; and Jackie Powers, a local health advocate, have been meeting to establish the core of the...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — Former Erwin Township Clerk Prisilla Gerovac entered a no contest plea to an embezzlement charge in 32nd Circuit Court in Bessemer Tuesday as part of a plea agreement. The agreement calls for Gerovac, 45, of East Pioneer Road, to plead no contest to the charge of embezzlement by an agent or trustee of an amount more than $1,000 and less than $20,000, a five-year felony. There is also the possibility of a fine of up to $10,000 or three times the amount embezzled, whichever is greater. A...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - An ongoing trail improvement project at the Ontonagon Area School was dedicated Tuesday to a teacher whose career spanned 30 years of the district. Francis Fritz Zimmer taught biological sciences in the district from 1953-83. That period spanned the time the district went from Ontonagon to later include Greenland Township and Rockland. When the new school was built, Zimmer celebrated Earth Day by having students plant trees in an area adjacent to...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER — Area residents and the Bessemer City Council Monday evening heard Northwoods Paving Company announce they are seeking permission to put an asphalt mixing plant on Tamarack Avenue. In front of large audience, Eric Brye, of Northwoods Paving Company in Ashland, Wis., said the company recently applied for a special use permit to operate an asphalt mixing plant at Pat Steiger’s old sawmill on Tamarack Avenue, which is located within an M-1 district. Brye said the plant will be located 1,4...
PENCE, Wis - The already good fishing in the Gile Flowage will hopefully improve over the next few fishing seasons as an additional 5,000 bluegill were released at the Pence Park Boat Landing Monday. The fish-stocking effort is part of a three-prong strategy to increase the number of panfish in the flowage and protect the population from predators to ensure the long-term sustainability of the population. "(The Gile Flowage) is really a predator-dominated system, and so if you just put bluegills...
