Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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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...
LITTLE GIRL'S POINT - State Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba, toured part of Little Girl's Point to see first hand the damage to Lake Road resulting from the heavy rains and flooding following a July 11 storm. Casperson began his trip at the Michigan State Police post in Wakefield before traveling to the Point via Lake Road. The tour took roughly four hours, with Casperson stopping to look at the damage caused by the flooding, including several of the washouts on Lake Road, and talking to...
IRONWOOD - Festival Ironwood wrapped up four days of fun and frolic in Depot Park Saturday. Live music was provided under the tent by a variety of groups through the four-day event with Saturday's music including the Ranch Boys, the Gogebic Range Band and Xtra. Classic cars lined the streets downtown on a sunny Saturday. The car show offered awards in several different classes. "We have a blast every year" said Susan Tippett of Ironwood. "It's got everything - cars, crafts, food and entertainmen...
ASHLAND, Wis — Most drivers can once again get to and from Ashland using U.S. 2, after the highway reopened for “car and light vehicle” traffic Saturday. The highway had been closed after storms the night of July 11 washed out part of the road and caused the Bad River to flood over the roadway. According to a post on the Ashland County Sheriff’s Department’s Facebook page, a detour around the Kakagon Bridge has been opened. Heavy trucks and semis are prohibited from using this detour and must continue to use the established detour of U.S. 51,...
LITTLE GIRL'S POINT - With cheering occupants, a line of cars crossed the bridge over Oman's Creek, heading east on Lake Road shortly before 4 p.m. Friday, signaling the restoration of access to part of Little Girl's Point. The vehicles were the first to cross the bridge and leave the Point since heavy rains and flooding washed out a number of culverts in the area Monday night. Divers inspected the bridge's foundation Friday morning, according to Gogebic County Road Commission Engineer-Manager...
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker issued an executive order Friday directing state and federal flags to be flown at half-staff Monday to honor Mitch Koski, who died during the flooding at Saxon Harbor on Monday night. “I, Scott Walker, Governor of the state of Wisconsin ... do herby order that the flag of the United States and the flag of the state of Wisconsin may be flown at half-staff ... beginning at sunrise Monday, July 18, 2016, and ending at sunset on that date,” the order reads. Walker’s order refers to Koski’s service as a Montreal...
MARENGO, Wis. - A third person died in the floodwaters of Monday's storm in northern Wisconsin. The Ashland County Sheriff's Department said an 82-year-old man was found dead early Thursday in a pickup truck in the floodwaters of the Marengo River. Authorities said the truck was found in the water near the bridge over the river in the town of White River. The sheriff's department said Elmer Lippo was an elected supervisor for the town of Marengo. Two others, an 84-year-old Illinois man, in...
HURLEY — The Iron County Forestry and Parks Department has reopened most of the county’s all-terrain vehicle trails. According to information on the department’s website, all the trails are reopened, except for Trail 2, from its intersection with Trail 6 in Kimball, through Saxon and Gurney, to the Ashland County border. The trails had been closed following the storms that hit Iron and Gogebic counties Monday night, causing widespread flooding and road closures. The department asks that trail users obey all route closures, as wash-outs conti...
OMA, Wis - While most of the attention following Monday night's storm was on the northern part of Iron County, Jim Saari's farm in Oma also sustained considerable damage. The Iron County Sheriff's Department received a call shortly before midnight Monday reporting a power line down across U.S. 51 at Saari's property on Lyons Road. Saari said he was in bed, having just finished watching television for the night, when he heard a loud noise and a bang. He said he told his wife he thought a tree...
HURLEY - Iron County officials held a brief press conference Wednesday to provide an update on road closures in the county and the aftermath of Monday's storm. According to county officials: - While there are no U.S. 2 closures in Iron County, the closures in Ashland County continue to prevent thru traffic. The official route for travel west on U.S. 2 is from U.S. 2 to southbound U.S. 51, westbound Wisconsin 77, southbound Wisconsin 13, westbound Wisconsin 77, southbound Wisconsin 63 and...
BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners would like Gov. Rick Snyder to follow Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s lead and view damage caused by Monday’s violent thunderstorm and tornado. County board members unanimously agreed Wednesday to send a letter to Snyder, inviting him to tour the damage, including the devastated Little Girl’s Point area and the damage in Wakefield. “It’s all the same storm,” Gogebic County Road Commission Engineer Darren Pionk told the county board, referring to the damage in neighboring Iron County, Wis....
A violent lightning storm Monday evening caused flooding that washed out Iron County roadways, downed trees and severely damaged Saxon Harbor, where a man was found dead in his vehicle. Former mayor of the city of Montreal and county board member Mitchell Koski, 56, was pronounced dead at the harbor, according to Iron County Sheriff Tony Furyk. Koski and his wife, Kathy, were caretakers at the county park. The vehicle had been swept into swollen Oronto Creek near the harbor campgrounds and the b...
The Gogebic County Emergency Management Agency and other local officials declared an emergency Tuesday morning because of the severe storm that began Monday evening. Reports of damage began around 9 p.m. in Gogebic County. Heavy rain and strong winds caused flash flooding and knocked down trees in Bessemer Township, Ironwood Township and the city of Wakefield. The Gogebic County Sheriff's Department said Wakefield, Little Girl's Point and Black River Harbor were heavily affected by the storm....
SAXON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker made an unexpected trip to Iron County Tuesday to meet with local officials and get a first-hand picture of the damage caused by Monday night’s storm. “What a huge impact on something so beautiful,” Walker said, following a helicopter tour of the impacted area in the northern part of the state, including Saxon Harbor. “You can see the incredible damage there. Obviously, first and foremost (the concern) is going to be safety.” “It’s good for us to see first hand and then we’ll keep all the different state a...
BESSEMER - Residents sounded off Monday evening on whether or not Pat Steiger should be allowed to rezone Steiger Timber Operations on Tamarack Avenue. In front of more than 30 people, Steiger said his property is currently zoned as a M-1, or light industrial. But he said he needs it be rezoned to M-2, or heavy industrial, in order to continue running his multiple businesses. Steiger said his business is a 24-hour business. He said trucks deliver lumber to and from his site, and customers use...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — The Ironwood Township Board of Trustees approved an update to the township’s zoning ordinance Monday. The approval comes after the township’s planning commission recommended the adoption of the document’s latest draft in June. Among the changes made by the commission during the revision process were: new language regarding the placement of wind energy in the township, a redefinition of blight to make it appropriate for the township, added penalties for nuisance and blight and changes to bring the ordinance in line with ch...
