Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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HURLEY - The Hurley Lions Club held its annual pancake breakfast fundraiser Sunday morning at the Bell Chalet. The Lions Club has been hosting the pancake fundraiser for 35 years and the proceeds raised benefit the Hurley 4-H Club as well as the 4-H Iron County Summer Youth Camp in Manitowish Waters, Wis. Hurley Lions Club president Jerry Pisani said the many volunteers helping the Lions Sunday, including members of the Hurley 4-H club as well as campers and counselors of the youth camp. The... Full story
BESSEMER - Students and faculty at A.D. Johnston High School have been preparing to celebrate the eighth annual World Autism Awareness Day on April 2. Students will be tested with trivia about autism at the end of each class hour on Thursday, said ADJ special education teacher Jamie Stiffarm. Stiffarm said the questions will help to "celebrate what kids already know about autism" and will help them learn new things, too. According to Stiffarm, data shows that "one out of every 68 children born i... Full story
Schools throughout Gogebic County will be safer in the upcoming months after they are equipped with special classroom door locks as part of a Upper Peninsula-wide grant from the Department of Homeland Security. The grant money, which is directed through the Michigan State Police, will install "Nightlock Lockdown Door Barricades for Extreme Emergencies" on the interior of classroom doors that are designed to prevent entry to the room in case of an emergency, such as a school shooting. According... Full story
HOUGHTON - Students from Ironwood, Watersmeet and Ewen-Trout Creek traveled to the Michigan Tech campus Monday to compete in the Western Upper Peninsula Science Fair. The students competed based on a rubric centered on three main categories - the written report, overall project and the display board and student interview - event organizer Loret Roberts told the Daily Globe before the fair. Projects received a gold, silver, bronze or honorable mention rating depending on the percentage of points... Full story
ONTONAGON - Ryon Hokens, Director of Rehabilitation at Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital, said the Evole Chair, purchased by the Aspirus Ontonagon Foundation, has helped many patients at the hospital. The chair was purchased from proceeds of the annual Christmas show for the foundation. Jim Jessup, president of the foundation, presented a check for $3,799 to Deanna Wilson, vice-president of patient services at the hospital. Hokens said some patients are unable to stand and the chair is a "restorative"... Full story
IRONWOOD - Nicholas Steinmetz, the elementary school principal for the Ironwood Area School District, is looking to raise funds to purchase new playground equipment for the district's third through sixth graders. "With all of our budgets the way they are, we don't really have the money in the budget to get a new playground structure. But it is something that we really need so we are going to get creative and try and fundraise for it," Steinmetz said. Through a combination of fundraisers and dona... Full story
BESSEMER — Tom Novascone’s job as equalization director for Gogebic County was extended by four years Wednesday. The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners approved a new four-year contract for Novascone. Novascone will be paid $42,000 annually for the period from April 1 through March 31, 2019. The salary is the same as for the past year. He will work three days a week in Gogebic County. Novascone met with the county personnel and negotiations committee on March 11 and said he’d like the four-year contract, which was approved on a 7-0 vote... Full story
HURLEY — With the future of the Iron County Mining Impact Committee uncertain following the Feb. 27 announcement by Gogebic Taconite that it was closing the company’s Hurley office, committee Chairwoman Leslie Kolesar thanked the committee for their work. “Right now, with no mine project moving forward, I don’t know when this committee is going to meet again. Maybe it will be six months, maybe it will be a year, maybe it won’t be happening again. So I would like to let everyone know that if this committee doesn’t meet again, it has been my ple... Full story
RAMSAY - The main topic on the agenda for Bessemer Township's annual meeting on Monday night was setting the budget for the next fiscal year. The budget begins on April 1 and runs through March 31, 2016. Township Supervisor Jeff Randall spoke to those in attendance about the key points in next years budget. Randall said the estimated total available funds, which are at $1,297,627, may seem like a lot of money, but it does not all arrive at once. "It's a lot of money, but most of that income... Full story
HURLEY- The Iron County Comprehensive Planning/Land and Zoning Committee voted to recommend that the Iron County Board of Supervisors approve a temporary moratorium on the creation or development of any Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in the county following a public hearing on the issue Tuesday. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, sometimes referred to as Confined Animal Feeding Operations, are farms with over 1,000 animal units according to County Zoning Administrator Thomas... Full story
IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area Schools Board of Education approved a one-day unpaid suspension for school bus driver Jerry Hitter after the bus he was driving was involved in an accident in Negaunee while returning home from the regional basketball tournament in Marquette on March 16. According to Negaunee Police Chief Jay Frusti, Hitter was driving west on U.S. 41 at 8:30 p.m. when he didn’t notice a red light at Baldwin Avenue. Frusti said Hitter accidentally ran the light and was unable to avoid a collision with a green 2009 Dodge Caravan dri... Full story
LANSING - Wakefield Mayor Pro Tem Dick Bolen has been playing a leading role in more than just the city of Wakefield recently, as part of his role as the president of the Michigan Municipal League, according to a league press release. In early March, he traveled to Washington D.C. as part of Michigan's delegation to the 50th Annual National League of Cities Congressional City Conference. Among the speakers at the event was President Barack Obama, who discussed a new initiative to stimulate... Full story
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - The Ironwood Township Board of Trustees voted to seek proposals from both the Ironwood Carnegie Library and the Bessemer Public Library for the township's future library services at Monday's meeting. The vote gave township Supervisor Alan Baron the authorization to request information on the services that each library would provide township residents as well as costs of said services from both entities. The approved motion's wording asked for a three-year agreement with the t... Full story
BESSEMER — The A.D. Johnston library was filled for Monday night’s school board meeting, with the hopes of a new Gogebic Miners (Bessemer-Wakefield-Marenisco) football coach being announced. A committee was put in place to hire a new football coach, which consists of Bessemer’s Athletic Director Tim France, Principal Dan Vander Velden and board representative Mary Beth Trudgeon. Wakefield-Marenisco’s Supreintendent Cathy Shamion and Athletic Director Mark Lane are also on the committee. “We had four applicants. … At this time we are not goi... Full story
IRONWOOD - Students from the Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency Head Start program and the Great Start Readiness Program got a chance to see where they would be going next fall as the Ironwood Area Public Schools held a kindergarten orientation on Friday. The tour took approximately 65 kids through the various kindergarten classrooms and the elementary school office as well as showing the students other key places in the school such as the cafeteria. "We wanted them to be able to come... Full story
IRONWOOD - Both of the gyms in Luther L. Wright were full of basketball players Saturday as the school hosted its 23rd annual three-on-three basketball tournament. This year's tournament featured 64 teams competing in 16 divisions according to Luther L. Wright principal, and tournament-organizer, Michelle Kanipes. Utilizing both gyms, Kanipes was able to run six games at a time - ensuring a smooth flow throughout the day. In addition to being split by gender, the divisions were determined by... Full story
ROCKLAND – The names of nine Ontonagon County men are carved on the Vietnam Moving Wall, and an effort is underway to turn that wall into a museum in Ontonagon County. The moving wall is one of two which toured the United States and foreign counties after the close of the war. One was founded by John Devitt in 1984 who had connections with the community of Rockland. As the years passed there was less interest of communities in absorbing the cost of bringing the wall to their area. Through t... Full story
IRONWOOD - Local artists, members of the Range Art Association, have been studying master painters for the upcoming "Paint the Masters" show. Seventeen local artists have been studying famous master painters. Some of the artists being studied include Paul Gauguin, Georgia O'Keefe, Rembrandt, Salvador Dali, Johannas Vermeer, Claude Monet, Cezanne, Winslow Homer, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh. The artists each study a master artist's work and attempt to recreate the original. One of the... Full story
BESSEMER — The Bessemer Area Schools are soon going to be more secure as the district has been awarded a grant from the Michigan State Police Department as part of the department’s efforts to support school safety initiatives. Bessemer was one of the 56 public, 15 private and 11 charter schools and five sheriff’s departments across the state to receive a portion of the $4 million available in state grants, according to a Michigan State Police press release announcing the grants on Friday. “The safety of our students and educators is of paramou...
Twenty-two years ago, the United Nations General Assembly designated March 22 as World Water Day. Each year, a different issue is spotlighted, with this year's theme focusing on Water and Sustainable Development. The same theme is highlighted in the annual UN World Water Development Report, launched on WWD. "For those of us living on the shore's of the world's largest supply of fresh water, the Great Lakes, and in particular Lake Superior, we need to consider ourselves guardians against threats... Full story
Snowflakes fell Thursday across the Gogebic Range, the day before the official arrival of spring. Better days lie ahead, however. The national Climate Prediction Center forecasts a greater than climatological chance of above average temperatures for the next three months, but about average precipitation. For the short term, unseasonably cold temperatures are forecast, with highs of only 28 on Saturday and 32 on Sunday. Ironwood's record high for March 20 is 78 degrees in 2012. That year,... Full story
Six Iron County students traveled to Madison during the last week in February as part of the delegation from Douglas, Bayfield, Ashland and Iron counties that were in the state capital for the 30th annual Superior Days. The event, which took place Feb. 24 and Feb. 25, allows representatives from the four northern counties to lobby state legislators and officials on issues they feel are important to the northern region. Iron County's delegation - made up of three Hurley students and three Mercer... Full story
IRONWOOD - Members of the Ironwood girls soccer team were sporting some unusual facial "hair" Thursday as the team celebrated receiving a "Chocolate Milk: Nature's Sports Drink" grant by posing for a photo with their "milk mustaches." The $1,000 grant from the United Dairy Industry of Michigan will provide chocolate milk for the team after their practices and games this season. The team will also receive a cooler bag to transport the milk, various other prizes as well as posters of the team's... Full story
