Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon-White Pine Rotary Club had an opportunity this week to preview the $2.84 million construction slated for the Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital. Project manager Leanne Jessup presented the group with the floor plan, drawings and other details of the project, scheduled for groundbreaking in June. The main focus of the construction will be the emergency department, which has had a privacy issue that needed to be addressed. Jessup showed pictures of the present congested room, which separates p...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] IRONWOOD — To salute the U.S. military, The Shades of Blue Jazz Ensemble will perform at the Historic Ironwood Theatre Monday at 7:30 p.m. Bruce Greenhill, HIT managing director, said the ensemble is a band of 18 professional, enlisted musicians whose repertoire ranges from traditional big band jazz, to bebop and swing, to modern jazz. Greenhill said it is a Glenn Miller-style band and the concerts are just as likely to feature the music of contemporary composers as the classic sounds of Count Basie....
IRONWOOD - Spring is a season of birth and the baby chick count in Doug Foley's fifth grade class at the Luther L. Wright School around noon Wednesday was up to six. Foley was teaching his fifth graders through the distractions of visitors as the chicks were popping out of eggs in an incubator near the entrance to the second-floor classroom. Word quickly spread throughout the school that the awaited hatch was under way. Through a drop.cam set-up, students in other classrooms and anyone with a ca...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] HURLEY — Parents and community members are invited to attend a Your Choice Parent Night presentation Monday evening, at the Hurley K-12 school, about the devastating effects of drugs and alcohol abuse on young people and their families. Beginning at 6 p.m., Sandi Lybert and her son, Tyler, her daughter, Ashleigh Nowakowski, and her husband, Rick, will each talk about how drugs and alcohol abuse impacted their lives. Tyler said he started drinking alcohol in the sixth grade and using drugs later on. T...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MERCER, Wis — The parties involved in the contested election for District 11 representing Mercer on the Iron County Board of Supervisors met Wednesday morning to make sure everyone was on the same page. In the April 5 election, John Sendra beat incumbent Victor Ouimette 109 votes to 105 to win the seat on the county board. However, issues arose during the election when an unknown number of voters received ballots for District 12’s county board seat — a race where Opal Roberts was running for re-el...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — While the Iron County Clerk’s Office completed the required canvass Tuesday to formalize the voting totals in the April 5 election, the path forward for the seat representing Mercer’s District 11 on the Iron County Board of Supervisors remains up in the air. While John Sendra beat incumbent Victor Ouimette 109 votes to 105 to represent District 11, issues arose during the election when an unknown number of voters received ballots for District 12’s county board seat — a race where Opa...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — The city of Hurley will again send out letters advising water customers of high contamination levels, even though recent tests have shown the water is within safe drinking standards. Because the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources averages readings from the city’s last four tests and that amount for Hurley exceeds acceptable levels, the letter will be necessary. The last two tests for Hurley showed improvements and were within federal guidelines. Last August, the city had failing tes...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — The sale of two Ironwood Public Safety Department fire trucks was approved by the city commission Monday for $13,500. The 1987 Seagrave and 1981 Pierce Ladder trucks were sold to Sam Wagner, of Cross Plains, Wis. IPSD director Andrew DiGiorgio said the trucks will be used in a logging operation. DiGiorgio said the IPSD had been trying to sell the 1987 truck for two years and the ladder truck for about a year, without success, lowering the minimum bids until a buyer was found. On another I...
IRONWOOD - Local author Pat O'Neill will present selections from his new book, "Disciples of Critters," on Wednesday, April 20, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at The Golden Dragon in Ironwood. In the book, O'Neill emphasizes "folks should live more like critters and eat and work to develop minds and bodies with the strength and energy to help each other maintain a healthier planet with vigor and vibe that might resurrect the planet's sense of humor." In return, he said maybe the planet will smile at us...
IRONWOOD - The Ironwood Miners Memorial Mural on McLeod Avenue was a victim of Friday's snowstorm. The Ironwood Public Safety Department received a 7 a.m. Friday report that a loader machine had slid through the intersection at Suffolk Street and struck the wall, creating quite a bit of damage. The loader operator, Aaron Tarnaski, 35, of Ironwood, drives for Cloverland Motors and Excavating, according to an IPSD report. The company's insurance representative was to be contacted regarding the...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER — Following a lengthy discussion, the Gogebic County Road Commission voted to form a committee consisting of management and board members to resolve issues within the commission and improve snowplowing in the county. During a joint meeting with the Gogebic County Board of Commission April 6, several county commissioners said they received a number of complaints from the public about the plowing. In response, road commission manager-engineer Darren Pionk said the road commission isn’t “spot o...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — A variance that will allow Tractor Supply to set up outdoor displays in the Ironwood Commons was approved by the city commission on Monday. Kmart is moving out of its store in the plaza and Tractor Supply has already moved goods into the building. Ironwood Community Development Director Michael Brown said while city zoning doesn’t permit displays outside of stores, city staff members recommend an exception be made. Brown said in conversations with the potential new business owners, they str...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - There was something for almost everyone on display at the Pat O'Donnell Civic Center Saturday as the building played host to the Cabin Fever Craft Show. The annual show - which ran from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday - had 63 vendors from throughout the region, including Phillips, Wis., and Iron River, Mich., according to civic center manager Brian Roehm. The vendors offered a variety of handmade and manufactured goods, selling eve...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Klassic Kruisers Car Club held its sixth annual pancake breakfast at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Ironwood Sunday, raising funds for the club celebrating its 25th anniversary. Organizers were pleased with the fundraiser, saying they saw a good turn out from both diners and club members. "(Turnout) was good. I think we had about 200 people come through, which is about normal," said club president Linda Gustafson. "(We got) lots of...
LONGUEUIL, Quebec — Highland Copper Company announced April 4 it had reached an agreement extending the period in which it can acquire the White Pine mining project. According to the company’s announcement, the deadline to acquire the project from the Copper Range Company has been moved from March 31 to May 6. The closing on the acquisition is dependent to the release of the Copper Range Company from certain environmental obligations connected to the remediation and closure plan of the historic White Pine site, the announcement said. Along wit...
MERCER, Wis. — the Iron County Deer Advisory Council is meeting April 18 to provide the public a final opportunity to comment on the council’s recommendation of not allowing any antlerless deer to be killed in Iron County during the 2016 hunting season. The council will hold its final spring meeting at 7 p.m. at the Mercer Community Center, according to a release from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, where it will receive input on its recommendations regarding antlerless deer harvest quotas, permit levels and season structure rec...
ONTONAGON - Ontonagon Area Schools seventh grade students were given an opportunity to try their skills on the school's gym climbing wall last week. Former Ontonagon teacher Jim Waters volunteered his time to teach the kids how to don the safety harness and how to communicate with the person holding their safety line. "Communication between the climber and the person minding the belay line is a critical part of the chain of events that keeps the climber safe," said Ontonagon teacher Ken...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield City Council discussed additional stipulations of potential City Manager Jason Laumann’s contract Thursday afternoon. At an April 1 meeting, the council agreed to offer Laumann a salary of $55,000 for one year. After one year, the council also agreed to raise his salary to $60,000 and include the cost of living in his contract, both pending an evaluation of his performance. Laumann wasn’t able to make the meeting, but had expressed concern that his position is tenta...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — With no word on the status of the county’s Coastal Management grant application, the Iron County Regional Trail Committee discussed how to move forward with the development of a trail between Hurley and Montreal. Among the topics discussed was the plan if the county receives the grant, progress on obtaining land along the desired trail route, ways the area’s motorized and non-motorized trail groups can work together toward common goals and the possible fear from landowners that they will h...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] HURLEY— The next Range History, Geography and Geology Club meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 11, beginning at 6 p.m. at Sharon’s Coffee Company in Hurley. Paul Sturgul, club organizer, said Bret Deutscher, of Hurley, will give a keynote presentation about William Vilas. Sturgul said Vilas was a prominent Wisconsin member of the Democratic Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1891 to 1897. Deutscher said Vilas acquired two sections of land on the ore bod...
