Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Tuesday is Election Day in Wisconsin. A race for an open seat on the state Supreme Court will appear on ballots statewide, but there are local contests and ballot initiatives across the state, including here in Iron County. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Former state Supreme Court justice Daniel Kelly and Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz are battling for a 10-year term on the state’s high court in a race that will decide the ideological balance of the court. The vacancy comes from Justice Patience Roggensack’s retirement as hi...
BESSEMER — Increasing numbers of deer within city limits have led members of the Bessemer City Council to vote unanimously to request a state permit for an archery hunt. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many deer,” said Councilwoman Linda Nelson, who opened the discussion. “I don’t remember it ever being this bad.” Nelson claimed that, on Monday morning, there were 15 deer crossing the road when she went to work. The city has an ordinance that prohibits the feeding of deer, but the problem is in enforcing it, said Mayor Adam Zak. Council me...
Spring skiers should note that their days are numbered with more and more snow melting as temperatures continue to rise. The last day for skiing at Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort will be Saturday in Ironwood Township, and Sunday is the final day at Jackson Creek Summit in Wakefield Township. Sugar Cup races will occur on that day. In Ontonagon County, the final day for Greenland Ski Hill will be on either Saturday or Sunday, and Monday will be the last day at the Porcupine Mountains Ski Area....
WAKEFIELD — Members of the Wakefield City Council voted on Monday evening to submit an application for state grant funding that would help finance an expansion of the Eddy Park Campground. City Manager Robert Brown shared the news by phone on Tuesday and also explained some of the council’s modifications to the expansion plan. The application due on April 1 will be submitted to the Trust Fund of the state Department of Natural Resources. If successful, the grant would provide $300,000 toward the project that is estimated to cost nearly $2....
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] The building of a rerouted segment of Enbridge’s Line 5 is moving closer to reality, according to a company spokesperson. “The permitting process is moving forward,” said Juli Kellner on Tuesday by phone. She was referring to a segment of the line that is being redirected away from the Bad River Tribe of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians at the request of the tribe based in Ashland, Wisconsin. The 41-mile rerouting begins at a currently operating segment of the line in Ashland and veers south around triba...
By MEGAN HUGHES [email protected] IRONWOOD - Mt. Zion Ski Area manager and director of Gogebic Community College's Ski Area Management program, Jim VanderSpoel, is preparing for retirement later this year, and with the ski season coming to a close at Mt. Zion, he spoke The Globe about his long career in ski area management and what he has seen change over the years. VanderSpoel said he felt it was time to bring in some new blood into the program, and that while he is retiring, he still...
By MARIE EGGLESTON Special to the Globe Theatre North’s current production is “Second Samuel,” written by Pamela Parker and directed by Steve Lundey. It is a play set in 1949 in the town of Second Samuel, Georgia. Ostensibly, it is a play about a carefully kept secret, but it is also about the need for acceptance and open-mindedness. The characters are just ordinary small-town folks, sort of like the people in Ironwood, Bessemer, Wakefield, Hurley or any of the other small town, who have their lives upended by a secret that finally makes its w...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] IRONWOOD — Ironwood hit a winter benchmark last weekend it cleared 200 inches of snow for the season. Snow on Friday, Saturday and into Sunday pushed the season total as measured at the Gogebic-Iron Wastewater Treatment Facility to 209.7 inches of snow. An additional 0.9 inches of snow over night into Wednesday pushed the new total to 210.6 inches. This is the first season Ironwood has cleared 200 inches of snow since hitting 223.7 inchesin 2012-2013. The recent three-day snow storm brought 19 i...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP — Highland Copper Company has announced that it expects ‘early works and site preparation’ to occur this year. “We are happy to introduce Copperwood as one of very few fully permitted copper projects in the U.S.,” said Denis Miville-Deschênes, president and CEO of Highland in a press release last week. “The economic return at spot copper price is robust … It will be exciting to start site works during 2023 as we advance discussions on funding of our Copperwood project.” The...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] IRONWOOD — Ironwood city manager Paul Anderson told the city commission Monday that the bids for the proposed water treatment plant came in over budget — again. But they’re getting closer. He said the city has secured Rural Development funding of $7.6 million for the construction. In summer 2022, bids for the entire plant came in at $14.4 million. The city responded by splitting the project into two phases, with the goal of using the existing RD funding for Phase 1. He said Phase 1 will inclu...
By MEGAN HUGHES [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Downtown Art Place in Ironwood is celebrating Youth Art Month by displaying art from area students in the concourse of the Historic Ironwood Theatre. The exhibit runs through the end of the month and features works of art by students at Wakefield-Marenisco, Bessemer, Hurley and the Northwoods Christian Academy, according to exhibition chairman Peg Sandin. Sandin gave The Globe a brief tour of the exhibit on Saturday during an open house...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] HURLEY — Members of the Hurley City Council voted on Tuesday evening to recommend to Iron County’s Planning and Zoning officials the rezoning of tax parcel 236 0204-000 from single residential to multi-family residential “to allow Impact Seven to develop multi-family housing on the site.” The land currently is owned by the Iron County Resource Development Association. At a Feb. 8 joint meeting of the Iron County Development Zone Council and the Iron County Economic Development Committee, members discussed...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] BESSEMER TOWNSHIP - Skis were flying last Saturday at the third annual Muk UP, which is a fundraiser for Team Z, an area ski-racing team for kids from age 5 through 17. Mild weather and plenty of team spirit helped to draw a large crowd at the base of Black River Basin in Bessemer Township. Although Team Z is for kids, the Muk UP included adult competitors as well, with some coming from as far as Marquette, or from the Wisconsin areas of Rhinelander,...
IRONWOOD — The Gogebic Community College Board of Trustees approved the retirement request from Jim Vander Spoel, director of Ski Area Management, at their regular meeting on Feb. 28. Vander Spoel began his career in 1979 as the first supervisor of Mt. Zion operations, and has served as director of the Ski Area Management program for the past 17 years. His retirement will be effective Oct. 20, 2023. “His work for the college, and in the ski industry has gained international recognition and respect. The college, its ski area management stu...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Gogebic County Fair will offer a new, rotating feature during each of the four event days scheduled from Aug. 10-13. The Fair Board voted on Monday evening to approve an idea proposed by board member Holly Ramme, who suggested that the fair offer an additional event each day with the idea of drawing that much more interest to the fair. Ramme suggested that stock car drivers provide a “look-see” view of their vehicles on Thursday, with an opportunity for autographs, goody bags, etc. For r...
By MEGAN HUGHES [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Luther L. Wright K-12 School pep band performed at last week’s Ironwood vs. Wakefield-Marenisco varsity basketball game, inviting alumni to join them and play alongside as they revved up the crowd and cheered on their team. Band director Kirk McBrayer spoke to The Globe during a break in the game, explaining that the alumni band only plays a couple of times per year. McBrayer said while the pep band plays a majority of the home basketball and football games, the alumni band plays at a few r...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] SILVER CITY - Saturday's Snowburst Winter Carnival could not have had more perfect conditions at the Porcupine Mountains Ski Area in Silver City. Sunny, mild weather and newly fallen snow worked together to draw dozens of people happy to participate in a full schedule of activities. "Holy moly!" shouted one delighted celebrant from the midst of the crowd, which included a persistent, long line to the chair lift, along with a constant flow of skiers and s...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] BESSEMER — Members of the Bessemer City Council voted Monday evening to approve a resolution that supports Copper Peak “as an outstanding asset to the Gogebic Range and entire Western Upper Peninsula.” Built as a ski jump in Ironwood Township in 1969, the site has been closed to that activity since 1994, but has remained a tourist attraction ever since. Its nonprofit board recently received a $20 million state grant to remodel the site into an all-season ski-flying hill for use in international competitio...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] IRONWOOD – The Ironwood City Commission approved the purchase of a new Pierce pumper fire engine at its meeting Monday evening. The price tag is $874,920, and now the city needs to find a way to pay for it. Delivery of the yet unbuilt truck is expected in three years, and the city has 30 months to come up with the first payment, said Public Safety Director Andrew DiGiorgio. The process of buying a new fire truck started before the COVID-19 pandemic and then it came to a halt, said DiGiorgio. ...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] HURLEY — At a Tuesday evening meeting, members of the Iron County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a resolution that will formulate a county forest law withdrawal application in relation to a pending land exchange between Iron County and Paul DeRosso of Oma. As part of the resolution, DeRosso will pay for a related survey, and Iron County will enroll into the county’s forest program about 33 acres of land from section 20 in Mercer, so as to replace the county forest lost from land that is exp...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Saturday turned out to be the perfect day for the annual fishing contest sponsored by the Wakefield Volunteer Fire Department. A total of nearly 500 adults and children participated in the event, which is the department's largest fundraiser, having pulled in as much as $14,000 in recent years. Sunday Lake was filled with activity, including numerous tents and fishing holes, along with constant traffic in the way of 4-wheelers, snowmobiles and...
By MEGAN HUGHES [email protected] IRONWOOD — A crowd gathered at the Pat O’Donnell Civic Center on Saturday to enjoy an alumni hockey game, bringing together hockey players across generations to play a series of games. “We allowed the high school kids to participate, and our oldest player today was 67. It was open for everyone and we tried to divide the teams as fairly as we could,” said Civic Center manager Jay Kivisto. “This year we tried to keep family members together, so if a father and son played, we tried to keep them on the same...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] HURLEY — Hurley School District officials are looking for a new plan for plowing snow beginning next winter. The city of Hurley has been plowing the school’s snow for free since the fall of 2006, but city officials told the school district earlier this year that they just can’t keep up with the status quo as costs have increased. The school board on Monday evening discussed calling for bids for the 2023-2024 winter and beyond. Administrator Kevin Genisot posed a the idea of a three-year contr...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] BESSEMER — A meeting of the minds took place last week as the city of Bessemer held a joint meeting with representatives from its City Council, Planning Commission, Downtown Development Authority, and Parks and Recreation Commission. City Secretary Samantha Dorr, who coordinates the DDA, set up the Feb. 13 session in the auditorium of the Bessemer City Hall. The idea was to discuss recent successes, to acknowledge challenges and to suggest goals for the near future. Mayor Adam Zak, who represented the C...
The 2023 Superior Snowshoe Walks season has a few more walks to go. Organizer Sam Davey said the season has gone really well, with warmer weather allowing for people to dress in fewer layers. Speaking at the Feb. 8, Wednesday afternoon walk at Schomberg Park in Oma, Wisconsin, Davey said he advises people to dress for warmer weather than it is. "Once you get going, start working up a sweat, it feels a lot warmer," said Davey. "We had one week of cold weather, but that was really it. ... I usuall...
