Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By KELSEY HANSEN [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The council was presented with a couple notes cited from the 2014-15 fiscal year audit that was tabled at a previous meeting. One was for financial reporting, which was due to lack of staff and the other was deficiencies reported. After discussing the situation and based on results from a deficit test, it was determined the city does not have to address the water fund deficit. The council was also presented with the three sewer related projects the city is currently working on. The p...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MERCER, Wis. - With the primary election roughly one week away, the six candidates running for a pair of seats on the Mercer Town Board stated their cases Monday during a candidate forum at the Mercer Community Center. William Brundage, James Davis, Gordon Kohegyi, Michael Lambert, Victor Ouimette and John Sendra are running for the two seats on the Mercer board. The forum, sponsored by the Mercer Public Library and the Iron County Citizen's Forum,...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER - Vintage snow machine enthusiasts gathered at Big Powderhorn Mountain Ski Resort Saturday for the third annual "Clowder in the Powder" to display their "prized" machines and meet with other fans of these unique over-the-snow vehicles. Throughout the day, more than 10 vehicles were on display for skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers to look at and admire. While enthusiasts socialized in morning and afternoon, they talked about their snow...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - As it has for the past four decades, the smell of cooked spaghetti and meatballs filled the Fr. Darryl Pepin Hall in the basement of Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church in Ironwood Sunday as the church held its annual LaRosa Dinner. The dinner centers around National Catholic Schools Week, which ended Sunday. "The culmination (of the week) for us is the LaRosa Dinner," said Father Robb Jurkovich, the parish's pastor. "It's a fundraiser...
By KELSEY HANSEN [email protected] HURLEY - It was the third annual winter extravaganza at the Gile Park Saturday afternoon. All proceeds raised from the event benefit the annual Hurley Fireworks every July. This year, the 2.15 miles snowshoe race was rerouted from on the ice of the Gile Flowage to the woods through Gile Park. There was also a 5k road race for those that did not want to race on snowshoes. The event started at noon with registration, a bonfire, music and drinks....
HURLEY — Members of the Iron County Regional Trail Committee got some good news Thursday as they were informed the group’s Coastal Management Grant had cleared an initial hurdle and is one step closer to being funded. In October, the county applied for a grant to fund research into the ownership of the former Soo Line rail grade that proponents want to use to expand the county’s trail system. The grant application called for $25,000, with $25,000 in local matching funds. Determining the ownership of the land running through the county and i...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] IRONWOOD - Tom Coverly, an international speaker and illusionist, spoke at Gogebic Community College Thursday to area middle and high school students about "destroying illusions" regarding young adult life. To begin his illusion act, Coverly asked a member of the audience who likes to read to participate and selected Jordan Giannunzio, a Luther L. High School student. Coverly and Giannunzio stood back-to-back. Coverly gave Giannunzio a copy of the...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - The Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital Board of Directors and Aspirus Inc. approved construction of an 8,210-square-foot expansion and renovation project of the hospital's emergency department. Engineering and design plans are in the process of being finalized. Project completion is set for March of 2017, according to a press release. The project will include addition of a new canopy entrance to the existing facility, new private emergency care rooms, new p...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors’ Finance Committee approved the purchase of the a videoconferencing system for the courtroom and jail Thursday. It will allow the court to conduct necessary business with both defendants and witnesses remotely. Iron County Judge Patrick Madden said the county is one of the last in the state to adopt the technology, which he referred to as “absolutely essential. “I’m going to tell you this, there are 70 counties in the state of Wisconsin that have vide...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The saga of Gogebic-Taconite’s efforts to develop a mine site near Upson, Wis., has come to an apparent end after the company failed to make a necessary payment to Iron County to preserve the company’s lease option on county land adjacent to the proposed mine site. “They never sent the payment in for the next year ... so at this time I would say it’s probably a dead issue,” Iron County Board Chairman Joe Pinardi told the Daily Globe Tuesday. “The G-Tac saga is over as we speak because...
IRONWOOD — Gogebic Community College invites eligible college students and their families to fill out the free application for federal student aid. GCC is joining the collaborative and hosting a College Goal-sponsored event on Wednesday from 4 to 7 p.m. on the second floor of the Jacob Solin Center for Business Education. “Many students and their families find filing for aid is a big challenge,” said State Education Superintendent Brian Whiston. “The good news is these Michigan College Goal events have experts who can guide families through...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The sounds of plow trucks and snowblowers continued in Ironwood on Wednesday afternoon as the Gogebic Range was digging out from more than a foot of snow. Although the lake-effect snow was light, heavy drifting from north winds and temperatures in the 20s made driving treacherous. Area schools canceled classes as the snow picked up overnight and the drifting made it difficult for the plow crews to keep up with the storm. Most governmental meetings and social organization activities s...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] IRONWOOD - Warren Nelson, a singer, songwriter and poet, will return to Ironwood to perform "Song of the Wild" at the Historic Ironwood Theatre Saturday evening. Nelson's compass will be pointing north and he will celebrate stewardship of the Earth by featuring writings of Sigurd Olson, one of America's great environmentalists of the 20th century. Nelson said Olson was the "principal savior" of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. For the first...
MERCER, Wis. — With a winter storm warning in effect for Iron County, the planned candidate forum in Mercer has been rescheduled to Monday. According to information on the town’s website, the forum, previously set for Tuesday night, will now be conducted at 7 p.m. Monday at the Mercer Community Center. The forum will be hosted by the Iron County Citizens Forum and the Mercer Public Library and will feature candidates running for two seats on the town board. A previous release regarding the forum said all six candidates running in the ele...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — When Gogebic County residents go to the polls on Aug. 2 to cast ballots on funding the county transit system, they’ll be voting on a four-year millage renewal. Although the ballot question as first specifies an increase in taxes, the same rate will be sought that has been in effect from 1985 through 2016 — one-third of a mill. Gogebic County Transit Director Jim Mildren appeared before the county board last week to discuss the millage vote. He noted more than two-thirds of the bus rides...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — A warm Saturday produced a new weather record for Ironwood. The high temperature of 45 degrees for the 24-hour period to 7 a.m. on Sunday broke a 110-year-old record, according to the National Weather Service office in Marquette, which compiles statistics gathered from weather stations across the Upper Peninsula. The heat wave followed a brief Friday night rainfall that coated the Gogebic Range. The rain was followed by a burst of heavy snow and strong winds that made visibility poor and d...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER - Following a lengthy closed session, the Bessemer City Council approved contacting the city's insurance carrier and inform them of potential litigation against the city that could arise concerning Bessemer's city manager controversy. At the Dec. 7 council meeting, the council voted to buy out former City Manger Michael Uskiewicz's contract and appointed former Wakefield City Manager Margot Anderson as his replacement, pending Anderson's...
By JUSTIN LIBERTOSKI [email protected] BUTTERNUT, Wis. — The 11th annual Justin Donner Memorial Fisheree took place Saturday at Donner’s Bay on the Turtle Flambeau Flowage, drawing around 700 participants. The fishing tournament is put on each year by the JPD Warrior Project to help raise awareness for suicide prevention. The event began in January of 2006 and has been gaining more participants each year. People travel from all over the country, including Michigan, Minnesota and California. “We even had six people from Japan,” said or...
By KELSEY HANSEN [email protected] IRONWOOD - The warmer temperatures made Sunday the perfect day to learn to ski during an event held at ABR Ski Trails. The day was free to local residents and was an opportunity to try cross-country skiing and sample the trails. All instruction was given by the Team Gogebic cross-country ski team. "It's a great opportunity for the teenagers on the team to be able to teach someone else to ski and to give back," said Eric Anderson, owner of ABR. The team,...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - The flames from the Norrie Amateur Sports Club's annual Christmas tree burning were visible all the way from Hurley's Silver Street Saturday night as the club continued its annual tradition of burning as many Christmas trees as its members could lay their hands on. This year's event had over 300 trees, according to club president Steve Lehto Jr., with the initial pyre made up of 215 trees and 43 wreaths and the rest staged around the...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] SAXON, Wis. — Roast beef was on the menu at the Saxon Community Center as the Saxon-Gurney Fire Department held its annual Raffle and Roast Beef Dinner fundraiser Sunday. The annual event serves as a fundraiser for the department, according to Chief Stacy Ofstad. “This year, probably, we’re going to be looking at getting some new radio equipment and some more pagers,” Ofstad said, explaining what the money would likely be used for. “Some of our radios are getting to be 15 years old, so we’re sta...
