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Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - Those driving down Cloverland Drive Wednesday may have noticed work underway demolishing one of the buildings that comprised Davey's Motel. "It's a new kind of remodeling, called vanishing," joked Sam Davey, who owns the motel at the corner of Cloverland Drive and Greenbush Street. While the business remains open, the removal of the building marks a shift for Davey toward a focus on long-term rentals. "We're more or less trying not to be...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER - The Western Gateway Trail Authority approved Wednesday to seek sponsors for mile-markers from local business and residents. At the meeting in the Gogebic County Courthouse, Paul Anderson, Coleman Engineering Project Manager, said mile distance markers will be located every half-mile along the trail. To get the community involved, City Manager Scott Erickson proposed businesses and residents could pay $250 to be a sponsor for one year. In re...
By KELSEY HANSEN [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Monday night marked the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the recently purchased Wakefield Municipal Building. More than 60 people attended the event, which included music by the Gogebic Range Band, presenting of the check to the Diocese of Marquette and coffee and desserts. City council member Dick Bolen presented a brief history of city hall. The original city hall was dedicated in 1915, exactly 100 years ago, and cost the city $35,000. The...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] IRONWOOD — As technology advances, Merit presented a conference about cyber security, broadband, and social engineering on Tuesday at Gogebic Community College. In the morning, Jim Lundberg, Merit Upper Peninsula Relations Manager, spoke to local area professions to emphasize the importance of cyber security. While discussing password making for online accounts, Lundberg said passwords are typically challenging to remember. “People are going to write it down and tape it to their computer,” he said....
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Ski flying is returning to Copper Peak with a series of competitions. Representatives of the Federation of International Skiing have awarded Copper Peak a Grand Prix Summer Series finale event to be held in September 2017 and a Summer Continental Cup and a Nordic combined summer event, both to possibly take place in 2018. The announcement was made Monday. The September 2017 event is an annual summertime competition on grass or artificial surfaces. Copper Peak is the only...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER - The Bessemer City Council approved Bill Steiger's resignation from the Bessemer Planning Commission Monday. At the meeting, Mayor August "Butch" Semmerling read an letter Steiger sent to him to announce his decision. "Under the advisement of my attorney and discussions with the state Attorney General's office, I am resigning my seat on the city of Bessemer Planning Commission," Semmerling said reading the letter. "I would also like to note...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area Schools Board of Education renewed a contact with the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District Monday that ensures area students will continue to be able to take welding and business management classes at Luther L. Wright. According to the terms of the contract, the classes will be open to sophomores, juniors and seniors, with 51 percent of students coming from Ironwood and 49 percent coming from outside the district. GOISD will pay the district a total of $27,257...
By KELSEY HANSEN [email protected] HURLEY - Over sixty community members, kids and adults alike, came together Saturday morning to help package food to send to malnourished communities in Haiti. The event took place at the Range Community Bible Church, although it was not a specific church function as it was open to the whole community. Chuck Guerber, missionary with the Range Community Bible Church, helped organize the event and bring eight members from the Kids Against Hunger St. Peters,...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER TOWNSHIP - A crowd of around 20 people gathered outside the Bessemer Township township hall Saturday morning for a rededication ceremony for the township's veterans memorial. The memorial is made from three stone slabs. The one in the center is approximately 7 1/2-feet tall and is engraved with a message that says, "In memory of the men and women of Bessemer Township who served in the armed forces of our country to preserve the freedom of...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MERCER, Wis. — The Iron County Outdoor Recreation Enthusiasts group hopes to soon become a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Almost one year ago, the group represents a wide variety of activities, according to Will Andresen, with the University of Wisconsin Iron County Extension Office, who has worked with ICORE over the past year. “They were created to fill a void in the community, and that void is kind of the silent sports part of the outdoor recreation scene,” Andresen said. He explained that sile...
WAKEFIELD - Karen Varian, of Wakefield, has always been an optimistic, energetic and ambitious woman, always on the move and ready to take on the next task. She and her husband moved to the Wakefield area just over two years ago from Connecticut when the cost of living was becoming too much. Varian's father was born in Wakefield, with lots of her relatives still in the area and she has grown up visiting here, so the decision to move was a relatively easy one. Since moving here, she found a lump...
HURLEY — It wasn’t a big bear, but it sure caused a lot of commotion. A black bear was shot and killed in downtown Hurley on Friday afternoon. It was apparently the same bear that had stolen corn from Krist Oil in an early Tuesday morning caper and had made some dashes down Silver Street in broad daylight. A dispatcher at the Iron County Sheriff’s Department confirmed Friday evening that detective Paul Samardich had shot the bear, which was too close to humans for comfort. There was reportedly concern that the bear might get too close to childr...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] WAKEFIELD - A 66-foot spruce from Wakefield was selected to become Michigan's 30th official Christmas tree. The tree was donated by Florence Daniels in memory of her late husband, Jim, a teacher in the Wakefield School System for 30 years who coached basketball, track and football. "His passion was coaching and dealing with kids," Mark Daniels, Jim's son, said. "He worked his way up in the coaching ranks and the teams were very successful throughout...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] IRONWOOD - A black bear was spotted at Super One Foods in Ironwood Thursday. Gary Jackson, of Ironwood, said he saw the bear sleeping under a semi truck around 12:30 p.m. The local resident said someone told him a bear was spotted sleeping in the Dumpster earlier, so he said he went out back and he saw the bear sleeping again. When it awoke underneath the semi truck, Jackson said the bear was startled and then proceeded to jump the guard rail and r...
By KELSEY HANSEN [email protected] IRONWOOD - For breast cancer awareness month, a community roundtable was hosted Wednesday night at the Aspirus Grand View Hospital. Nearly 30 people attended the dinner, presentation and discussion, all free to the public. Doctors Donna Cataldo, Enrico Braucher and Ather Mehboob spoke to the group about understanding breast cancer, detection, the surgical process and treatment options. Roughly 230,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year in...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] WAKEFIELD - To celebrate the community and school spirit, the Gogebic Miners had a parade and cheered at a pep rally Wednesday during Homecoming Week. On a "beautiful" fall evening, students from Bessemer Schools and Wakefield-Marenisco came together to show their school spirit. With the sound of a police siren, the parade got underway, led by a fleet of fire trucks, ambulances and patrol cars from local law enforcement departments. Close behind, the...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - Ironwood students will soon get a chance to try their hand at hydroponic gardening thanks to the Michigan State Police Wakefield Post after the post donated several pieces of hydroponic equipment to the school district Wednesday. The school will use the equipment to teach students about food production. "We hope to start raising our own fruits and vegetables for snacks for the children," said second grade teacher Michelle Trier, who...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners is seeking to fill three positions on the Brownfield Redevelopment Authority. On Wednesday, the board agreed to advertise for candidates. The terms on the board are for three years. Neil Beckman chairs the authority. County clerk Gerry Pelissero said while the board is made up of nine members, there are now only eight seated. Two terms are expiring, so that creates three vacancies in total. The two members whose terms are expiring can choose to s...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — The Hurley City Council agreed Tuesday to seek a grant that would assist in re-opening the former Super One grocery store off Tenth Avenue. Kendall Building, of Menominee, the developer of the project, would lease the building to Silver Lining, of Houghton. The project developers plan on investing about $2.5 million in the store project, with a June 1 completion date specified in the development agreement. The city of Hurley will apply for a $250,000 Community Development Investment Grant thro...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER - To encourage anti-bullying at school, Michigan State Police Trooper Jerry Mazurek visited Washington Elementary in Bessemer. Early in the afternoon, Mazruek talked to Jonelle France's first grade class. Mazurek said bullying comes in two different forms -physical and verbal. To get children involved, Mazurek asked the children to give examples of bullying. "Pushing somebody," a child said. Mazurek said pushing someone is physical bullying....
WAKEFIELD — The city of Wakefield invites the public to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the city’s newly purchased municipal building on Monday at 6:30 p.m. Wakefield City Manager Margot Anderson said, “100 years after the completion of city hall at 311 Sunday Lake St., the city has moved its new operations, and wishes to formally open the new location.” From 2014-’15, Anderson said Wakefield leased the building from the Diocese of Marquette and then purchased it in October for $101,899, using general funds. The Wakefield Municipal...
