Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER — After coming out of closed session, the Bessemer City Council voted Monday to seek “a second legal opinion” about the Bessemer city manager position and request the city attorney to contact past City Manager Michael Uskiewicz to collect more information regarding the issue. At a Dec. 7 meeting, the council voted to buy-out Uskiewicz’s contract and appointed former Wakefield City Manager Margot Anderson as his replacement, pending Anderson’s approval. At that time, the council also agre...
By KELSEY HANSEN [email protected] UPSON, Wis. - The lack of snow and above average temps have made it a bit challenging for area ski hills to get up and going this year. Of late, favorable conditions have lead to an opening weekend of ski season for Whitecap Mountains Resort. Officially opening on Friday, the hill originally planned on having only one lift and a couple runs open. However, with a wonderful sunny day and a hardworking staff, by the afternoon on Saturday they had three...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] KIMBALL, Wis. - Public access to Interstate Falls was secured Wednesday when the Northwoods Land Trust completed the purchase of the property on the Wisconsin side of the waterfall. "The intent of the purchase is to permanently protect public access so that people will be able to go in and view the waterfalls in perpetuity," said the trust's Executive Director Bryan Pierce. The trust plans on turning the property over to the town of Kimball, Pierce...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Gogebic Range Solid Waste Management Authority’s board voted Thursday to hire Steve Tinti, out of Crystal Falls, to represent the authority in the ongoing dispute with the city of Bessemer. The move became necessary as Michael Pope, the authority’s normal attorney, does work for Bessemer on an unrelated issue and Pope told the Daily Globe the negotiations have reached a point where he felt its best to step aside to avoid any potential conflicts of interest. At issue in the dispu...
WAKEFIELD - As winter break approaches, the Alcohol Drug Abuse Prevention Team Thursday taught students in the Wakefield-Marenisco School District dangers of addiction and consequences of driving under the influence. ADAPT is made up of Jennifer Wanink, president; Heather Higgins, secretary; Liz Mathias, event coordinator and Michaela Perlberg, Gogebic Community College counselor. Together, their mission is to to educate the area about drug and alcohol use, to bring awareness to issues that...
HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors Wednesday approved a deal allowing Lac du Flambeau inmates to be incarcerated in the Iron County Jail. “I’ve got room to house prisoners,” sheriff Tony Furyk told the board of supervisors’ finance committee in November when he first brought up the deal. “I certainly don’t want to refuse prisoners because it generates income here. I have an empty jail.” According to the information presented at the finance committee meeting, the program would be funded through a grant obtained by the tribe. The grant...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MARQUETTE - Members of the Gogebic-Iron Area Narcotics Team - as well as representatives of the Michigan State Police and Drug Enforcement Administration - held a press conference with Assistant U.S. Attorney Maarten Vermaat in Marquette Thursday to announce the sentences of seven members of an Ironwood-area drug ring that authorities say was responsible for almost all of the crystal methamphetamine supply in the Ironwood-Hurley area. "The purpose...
By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon-White Pine Rotary Wednesday presented the Ontonagon Hockey Association with a check for $1,000 to be used for a refurbishing project in the lobby of the Ontonagon Recreation Building. Hockey association president Stacey Somero and vice-chair Shannon Clinesmith accepted the check on behalf of the association, noting the recreation facility and ice rink is an important asset in Ontonagon. Clinesmith said on weekends more than 100 children use the facility for open skating. The Ontonagon...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER - To encourage kids to eat a healthy diet, Megan Martell, Michigan State University Extension nutrition educator, told kindergarten students at Washington Elementary School in Bessemer to eat more grains. While taking a break from class, more than 10 children told Martell if they're eating healthy or not, listened to her read a grain-themed children's book and, if they were on their best behavior, got a heathy treat. Martell asked them if...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors approved integrating the Aging Unit of Iron County into the county’s Department of Human Services and its Aging and Disability Resource Center at its meeting Wednesday. Supervisor Vic Ouimette, who has been selected to head the county’s transition team, said that one of the primary goals of the transition was ensuring services continue throughout the transition. “During and after the transitional process, no Iron County County resident will lose any ben...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission has scheduled a Monday, Dec. 28, 5:25 p.m. public hearing on a blight violation at 603 Cherry Place. Blight control officer Jason Alonen on Monday showed slides of how the property had previously been blighted and cleaned up to the tune of $3,800 at the city’s expense. Now, the parcel is blighted again. Since the unidentified parcel owner is a repeat offender who was previously cited, commissioners were told the city had sent out a second notice and the thi...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER - It appears the Bessemer City Council is having reservations about its decision to part ways with Michael Uskiewicz and replace him with former Wakefield City Manager Margot Anderson after the council voted at a special meeting Monday to add a review of Uskiewicz's employment status with the city to the agenda for a Thursday closed-session meeting originally intended to be an interview of Anderson. At the Dec. 7 council meeting, the council...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - November was a top 10 weather month in Ironwood on two fronts. The 5.36 inches of precipitation ranked as the eighth most over the past 114 years and the average temperature of 35.9 degrees was tenth, according to Kevin Crupi, of the National Weather Service office in Marquette. The long-term average temperature for November over those 114 years is 29.8. Crupi said the flow of Pacific air from the strong El Nino was responsible for the warm,...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — Following a public hearing, the Ironwood City Commission on Monday approved a $100,000 loan for Burton Industries. The loan for “working capital” will come through the city of Ironwood state of Michigan Community Development Block Grant program and will create five jobs for the business that operates out of the city’s industrial park. City Manager Scott Erickson noted Burton previously borrowed from the city and repaid the loan on time. There was no public comment at the hearing. Dale Co...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRON BELT, Wis. — The multi-day search for Iron Belt resident Alan Kangas, 68, ended Sunday with the discovery of his body at approximately 3 p.m. According to a Saturday press release from the Iron County Sheriff’s Department, Kangas was reported missing Friday at approximately 1:49 p.m. and a search began involving multiple agencies. Numerous K-9 units and 80 community members aided in the search. Iron County Sheriff Tony Furyk said in a statement Kangas was found in a wooded area in Iron Bel...
By KELSEY HANSEN [email protected] MERCER - It was the fourth year of the Candy Cane Parade and festivities on Saturday in Mercer. The day consisted of a bakeing contest in the morning, a parade and float contest in the afternoon and treats, hot cocoa and 50/50 raffle after the parade. The baking contest started the day's festivities, which took place in the Mercer Sno-Goers barn in the morning. Participants had three categories they could enter: cookies, bars and candy. Everyone had the...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] IRONWOOD - Rather than plotting how to steal Christmas, the Grinch visited children at Ironwood Carnegie Library on Saturday for a holiday story hour. With cold weather outside, approximately 10 children came to the public library to watch Lynne Wiercinski, read the popular Christmas book "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." Before she started reading, the Grinch, Jake Suzik, of Bessemer, stopped by to hand out candy canes for the boys and girls. With th...
BESSEMER — In his final appearance before the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday, county prosecutor Richard Adams offered a solution to a pension liability problem. Gogebic County was the fiscal agent for the Western Upper Peninsula Manpower Consortium, which was also made up of five other counties. For 40 years, the consortium served the six counties, but it was disbanded and a new consortium was formed that now serves the entire U.P. Now, the WUP Manpower Consortium pension fund is underfunded by $411,000. The pension plan h...
