Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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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...
IRONWOOD — The 10 structures approved for demolition Monday by the Ironwood City Commission will be torn down within 60 days. Commissioners approved nearly $150,000 in demolition projects, to be covered by a $675,000 state grant received by the city. Snow Country Contracting will handle nine of the projects and Associated Constructors will complete one. Ironwood Community Development Director Michael Brown said if the contractors don’t get the projects done within the designated 60 days, they will face fines. The projects will begin with asb...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — With a deadline a couple months away and more information needed, the Ironwood Township Board of Trustees tabled a request from the Upper Peninsula Commission for Area Progress for a temporary reduction of taxes on the Mill Trace Apartments. UPCAP took over the low-income apartments located off Lake Road in June 2014, according to UPCAP’s Director of Finance Rick Aird. Aird said the complex was in “pretty dire straights” when UPCAP took over managing the property and UPCAP put $80,000 into the project for a number of item...
IRONWOOD - Dustin Anderson, program coordinator of Boys and Girls Club of the Northland, met with community organizers Monday at the Ironwood Memorial Building to make progress toward establishing a club in Gogebic County and Iron County, Wis. Anderson noted the group will use the Ironwood Memorial Building. The matter will come before the Ironwood City Commission for action on Sept. 28 and the club wouldn't begin using the building until October of 2016. All insurance will be covered by the...
Jared Munch, 23, of Duluth, Minn., recently became the first person to travel around Lake Superior on a stand-up paddle board; a 1,350 mile journey that included a stop at Little Girl’s Point in Ironwood Township. Munch — a senior at the University of Minnesota-Duluth — spent the past three summers working at the school’s recreational sports outdoor program, instructing whitewater canoeing, kayaking and stand-up paddle boarding classes. The classes not only helped him fund his journey but allowed him to build skills needed for the journey...
WAKEFIELD — A second installment of the U.P. Women’s Author Tour was held Thursday evening at the Wakefield Municipal Building. Presented by the Wakefield Public Library, two authors, Beverly Matherne and Julie Buckles, read aloud some of their work and discussed with community members. Matherne began the evening introducing herself and reading several of her poems and short stories. Matherne grew up in New Orleans and later moved to Michigan, where she has been living for the past 24 years. She is an English professor at Northern Michigan Uni...
HURLEY - The weekend of events surrounding the 47th annual Paavo Nurmi Marathon began Friday as registration for the marathon - today from Upson to Hurley - was held at the Hurley K-12 school. Along with registration, Friday also featured the first two races of the weekend, a one-lap race around the track for kids, followed by a mile-long run. According to race organizers, Isabel Carlson took first in the one-lap event, followed by Lauren Kiecker and Devon Mead. Aksel Cichocki, Anton Klein and...
