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Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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BESSEMER - It was a party in Bessemer's Bluff Valley Park Saturday as the park was the site of the annual town picnic, hosted by Marty's Goldenaires. The day featured a variety of games for both children and adults, including penny pitch, chuck-a-luck, frog races, super-sized beer pong - which features soccer balls and garbage cans - and a corn hole tournament. There was also the standard summer picnic-fare of burgers, bratwurst, hot dogs, grilled corn and chicken as well as refreshments....
THE SUPERIOR Volleyball League held its annual end of the season tournament Saturday at Carey Park in Hurley. Estimates by participants put attendance at the event around 100 people. Among the teams facing off were those sponsored by Bank Club and the Branding Iron, which met in the finals with Bank Club's team winning the tournament....
WAKEFIELD - Area residents now have another avenue to dispose of old medication with the Michigan State Police Wakefield Post unveiling a new medicine drop-off box on Friday. The box will be available for residents to use during the post's hours of operation, Mondays through Fridays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., according to trooper Warren Webster. The box offers an easy, anonymous way to dispose of certain prescription medicines, Webster said, adding that while post personnel will monitor the disposal to...
IRONWOOD - Girls and boys dressed in their finest clothes for the sixth annual Fancy Nancy Tea Party on Thursday afternoon, hosted by the Ironwood Carnegie Library. For the "year's biggest event," more than 20 children attended the party at the Ironwood Memorial Building. During the party, assistant library director Lynne Wiercinski told the children a story about Nancy, a young girl who loves everything fancy. Written by Jane O'Conner, "Fancy Nancy" is a series of children's books following...
IRONWOOD — The Gogebic Range Solid Waste Management Authority board decided Thursday to make another effort to meet with the city of Bessemer to reach a resolution to the city’s exit from the authority. The decision came after Bessemer representatives were unable to make Thursday’s meeting and, according to documents provided at the meeting, requested a meeting some time in September. Bessemer’s city council voted to leave the authority at its March 16 meeting. At issue in the dispute between the city and authority is a disagreement regardi...
IRONWOOD - Following the Gogebic County Fair last weekend, the Gogebic County 4-H Market Livestock Group remains shy of the $1 million mark. At the annual Animal Auction, the group raised $47,887. With that, it is still $2,960 short of its long-awaited goal of $1 million total sold in the history of the organization. Over the years, Ashley Hampston, Gogebic County 4-H Program Coordinator, said the auction has been successful. Last year, the auction collected roughly $66,000. In 2013, they brough...
ERWIN TOWNSHIP — Wednesday’s Erwin Township Planning Commission began with township Supervisor Larry Grimsby running the meeting before the commission elected its officers. William Hellen was elected chairman, John Nuce was elected vice chairman and David Pawlak was named secretary. Prior to the meeting, all three officers as well as the two other commissioners — Roger Mussatti and Jim Anderson — were sworn in by Grimsby, which Grimsby told the Daily Globe was a precaution as the township was unable to find record of the oaths being adminis...
IRONWOOD - The next two months will be crucial in developing a 20-year master plan for the Miners Memorial Heritage Park. About 25 people gathered Monday evening in the auditorium at the Ironwood Memorial Building to review a preliminary comprehensive plan set up by the Friends of the Miners Memorial Heritage Park. Paul Kostelnik, president of the FMMHP, said a final plan for the park to be presented to the city commission will be drafted in September and finalized in October. He said a group...
SANTIAGO, Spain - Tiffani Aho's life changed forever while watching television in May. For Aho, it was a normal Sunday at home in Hurley as she was watching her favorite show, "Oprah." Then, Aho said Oprah's guest was talking about the Camino de Santiago. "Within 5 minutes, I knew I was going to do it," she said. From that day forward, Aho said she couldn't stop researching the Camino. "I joined a Facebook page. I learned how to prepare. The more I researched, I learned what an experience it...
ONTONAGON - Geological engineers from Highland Copper demonstrated to the Ontonagon Area Board of Education Monday the application and advantage of the ArcGIS system, a collaboration between the mining company and the OASD. Tony Geglio and Eric Shepek, engineers with the mining company, explained how the software and technology applied to mining and to a myriad of other professions as well. The men were introduced by Dave Anderson, Highland's Director of Environmental Affairs for the Keweenaw,...
LAKE GOGEBIC - Three organizations teamed up earlier this summer to fight an invasion of Japanese barberry plants at the Lake Gogebic County Park. The Gogebic County Forestry-Parks Commission combined with the U.S. Forest Service and Gogebic Conservation District to rid the park of the common landscaping plant that can spread into the woods when rodents and birds eat the berries and carry seeds to new locations. "We knew we had Japanese barberry out at the park, but had no idea how extensive...
BESSEMER — The Bessemer City Council agreed to proceed with four paving projects on three streets Monday. The three roads to be paved are Gyluna Street, Bessemer Plywood Road and Silver Street. City manager Michael Uskiewicz was absent, but provided a written report. He said he had Angelo Luppino Inc. provide estimates. The cost is $33,355, but funding for the project is not part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Rural Development project scope. Instead, Uskiewicz said in his report, the city has unrestricted reserve money available that c...
IRONWOOD - 4-H hosted the 41st Annual Market Animal Auction on Saturday afternoon during the Gogebic County Fair. Throughout the afternoon, 24 4-H members displayed their steers, lambs, hogs and pictures of their turkey and boilers around the Cattle Arena for over 50 audience members. This year, no poultry was allowed due to bird flu. Any 4-H members auctioning off their animal were enrolled in the 2014-15 animal market summer project. During the summer, they met every Monday night helping to...
IRONWOOD — The 2015 Homemaker of the Fair award was presented to Ashley Hampston of Ironwood at the Gogebic County Fair this past weekend. Hampston has exhibited items in the fair for many years; starting out in the County 4-H at the age of 8. She believes in supporting the fair by submitting her entries to exhibit. This year she had entries in canning and preservation, horticulture, food preparation and needlework, which are required categories; as well as, entries in the Livestock Barn. She learned to crochet and knit with her grandmother. S...
SAXON, Wis. - It was about 100 degrees hotter than typical snowmobiling weather, but that didn't stop drag racing Saturday at the Iron County Fairgrounds in Saxon. Around $1,600 was raised for breast cancer prevention in the women's pink races, which included a nasty spill by one of the racers well after the finish line. She was uninjured, however. With temperatures reaching the mid-90s, the racers and their teams struggled to keep motors that are supposed to be air-cooled running for even the...
IRONWOOD - The 94th annual Gogebic County Fair welcomed racers and fans to the track for day one of harness racing Friday. On a sunny afternoon, the longstanding fair tradition continued. Racers competed in five races around a mile-long dirt track. Horses were allowed to compete in two of the five races, as long as they rested for 40 minutes in between. With no sign of rain, racer Gary Magee said the track was ideal for racing. "The track was excellent," Magee said. "It was very consistent all...
IRONWOOD - As the second half of construction continues on U.S. 2, one-lane traffic will be diverted to the south lane beginning on Wednesday. Beginning at Curry Street, all traffic on Cloverland Drive will be diverted to the south lane for a half mile to Cloverland Cinemas. From there, traffic will be diverted to the north lane until construction ends at Roosevelt Street. Drivers may have noticed asphalt has been poured and curbs have been laid in the south lane along the half mile stretch...
IRONWOOD - The sun was shining and music was playing on Thursday for the first day of the Gogebic County Fair. People entered livestock and poultry. Later in the afternoon, the carnival rides opened for children and the young at heart. Under the hot sun, Jaeden Lyons, 9, and Lexi Aspinwall, 5, rode horses on the merry- go-round, engineered the train, and had fun in the fun house. "My favorite ride was the merry-go-round," Aspinwall said. Having fun at the top of the slide, Steven Worthington, 4,...
HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors’ Finance Committee approved reclassifying Sarah Eder from a level 2 to a level 3 social worker Thursday. Iron County Human Services Director Carolyn Kolson-Janov said Eder has been with the county for five years — although she had worked in the county as an AmeriCorps and contract worker prior to joining the county full-time — and works with the child protective services and child welfare units. There are four levels of social workers, Kolson-Janov said, with four being the highest and applica...
IRONWOOD - Once again, its time for the annual tradition that is the Gogebic County Fair, which opens today and runs through Sunday. Starting at 10 a.m., today, the public can explore the fairgrounds until 8:30 p.m. and participants can drop off entries in all categories. The day will feature a youth challenge, beginning at 4:30 p.m., according to the fair's Entertainment and Marketing Chair, Kathy Jo Koval. The challenge features six teams of area youth competing in a number of "silly games,"...
ERWIN TOWNSHIP — Erwin Township hasn’t been up-to-date on paying taxes to the federal government. That was the news township Supervisor Larry Grimsby delivered to the board of trustees Wednesday. “It was discovered that we’re on the verge, the township is on the verge, of being put into collections by the federal government,” said Grimsby. Grimsby reassured the board and residents in attendance that, now the township was aware of the problems, the township leaders were taking steps to resolve the issue. According to Grimsby — who was reading...
BESSEMER TOWNSHIP - The Bessemer Township Planning Commission held a meeting on Tuesday to address Gerald Lukach's special approval permit for rock crushing. After much discussion, the commission ultimately approved to table the permit and wait until they hear back from their attorney. Then they will vote on the matter during a special meeting on Thursday, Aug. 20. According to the agenda, Lukach's pit is located between Powderhorn and Black River Roads. At his pit site, there are access roads...
