Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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The Gogebic-Ontonagon Great Start Collaborative recently hired two new parent liaisons to serve communities in both counties. Laurie Celeski, of Ironwood, will serve families in Gogebic County and Donna Powelson, of White Pine, will cover Ontonagon County. Parent liaisons work with community agencies, schools and families “to build public support for early childhood planning, provide a customer perspective as a sounding board for the Great Start Collaborative and lend support to the Great Start Collaborative,” Celeski said. “We serve as a voi...
IRONWOOD — The city of Ironwood is launching its own facade improvement program. The city plans to spend $2,500 matching facade improvements to four downtown buildings. The $625 per building will be a one-to-one match from the city, according to Ironwood Community Development Director Michael Brown. He said the application period is now open. In the past, facade grants were awarded through the Michigan State Housing and Development Authority, and many building owners throughout the city took advantage of the funding, sprucing up the b...
IRONWOOD - Seven winners were named at the fourth annual HIT Idol competition at the Historic Ironwood Theatre Saturday night. With more than 700 people in the audience, 49 youth and young adults from Gogebic Ontonagon, Iron and Vilas counties competed Friday for the chance to open Saturday night's show featuring American Idol season 10 finalist Naima Adedapo, of Milwaukee. Competitors were featured in three categories - youth in grades five through eight, high school in grades nine through 12...
HURLEY - Local residents braved cold temperatures to browse hundreds of homemade items during the second annual winter craft fair at the Iron County Memorial Building on Saturday. According to event organizer Kathy Koski, the Iron County Memorial Building Restoration Committee holds two craft fairs each year, one in the spring and one in the winter, to help with the costs of keeping the building open. A date for the upcoming spring craft fair has not yet been set. Because of the success of last...
CEDAR,Wis. - A 74-year-old Saxon man lost control of his vehicle on Friday at 4:39 p.m., and the vehicle ended up at the bottom of a 75-foot ravine off of Harbor Drive near Frontier Bar and Campground in Cedar, near Gurney, according to an Iron County Sheriff's Department report. According to the report, Christopher Roby claimed two deer jumped out in front of him while he was driving down Harbor Drive. He told deputies it startled him, so he jumped out of the vehicle while it was still...
IRONWOOD - Naima Adedapo, a top 11 "American Idol" finalist, arrived in Ironwood Friday for a brief performance that night and a longer one today at the Historic Ironwood Theatre. Forty-five area singers competed at the theater Friday night, all trying to become the opening act for Adedapo's performance tonight in a 90-minute show. HIT members greeted Adedapo Friday afternoon at the Maplewood Steakhouse on Cloverland Drive. She had been in town just long enough to watch a blast of Big Snow...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - After a millage renewal request was approved by Ironwood Township residents Tuesday, town officials are preparing to start road construction projects. In 2010, the Ironwood Township Board of Trustees approved a five-year road plan, listing roads needing updates. Since that time, Hannu and Nylund roads were worked on, but funding was limited, leaving other projects left undone. To help alleviate budget constraints, the board put a millage request on the ballot for Tuesday's el...
IRONWOOD –– U.S. 2 is open again. Phase 1 of the $7.5 million U.S. 2 project that began in May is nearly completed, at least for this year. "We're happy to see this major project nearing a successful completion," Mike Premo, manager of the Michigan Department of Transportation's Crystal Falls transportation service center, said. "We realize it caused a significant impact on traffic in Ironwood this summer and fall. We appreciate everyone's patience as we wrap things up for the season." MDOT exp...
IRONWOOD — Ironwood voters on Tuesday approved a special 10-year millage to resurface about 10 miles of streets next year. The vote was 832 to 651, or 56 to 44 percent, to levy 2 mills for general obligation tax bonds to be repaid over a 10-year period, for about $1.4 million in street work. Before the election, city manager Scott Erickson said there are 62 miles of streets in the city and although much street work has been done in the past few years, about 20 miles are still in bad shape and need of repair. He said the work would likely b...
BESSEMER - Six candidates competed for three four-year terms on the Bessemer School Board Tuesday. Elected were Beth Steiger, 657 votes, and incumbents Annette Lillie, 498, and Robert Berg, 456. Defeated were William Van Hill, 357; Cory Wainio, 391, and incumbent William McDonald, 270. Mary Beth Trudgeon defeated Dave Osier 583-359 for a two-year term on the school board....
WAKEFIELD - Wakefield-Marenisco School District voters renewed 1 mill for the school's building and site sinking fund for 10 years Tuesday to continue funding for the purchase of real estate, the construction or repair of school buildings and other purposes authorized by law. According to superintendent Cathy Shamion, the money will help the district continue to do many projects, including ongoing tuckpointing of the building and perhaps replacing windows and the addition of an elevator....
IRONWOOD - Over the past week, 45 area youth have been fine-tuning their performances for the annual HIT Idol competition on Friday. The contestants from across the area will perform in vocal competition at the Historic Ironwood Theatre, hoping to win the chance to open for American Idol season 10 finalist Naima Adedapo. The competition takes place on Friday at 7 p.m., featuring youth in grades five through eight, high school students and young adults aged 17-29. Two contestants in each...
IRONWOOD -The Michigan Economic Development Corporation has pledged $10,000 as the state's match for a downtown Ironwood art park. The art park will be on Aurora Street, between Mattson's TV and Appliance and Book World, and across from the Downtown Art Place and Historic Ironwood Theatre. MEDC President-CEO Michael A. Finney said the initiative in Ironwood is "one of the first of its kind in the country, a great opportunity for residents, businesses, and others to pool resources and actively...
BESSEMER–– Hot topics at Monday's Bessemer City council meeting included the Eagle Waste rewards program and the possible purchase of an excavator for the city. About 20 residents were in attendance and many made public comments on the contract the city has with Eagle Waste & Recycling of Ashland, Wis. Several residents said privatizing the city's waste removal through Eagle Waste was not the right choice, citing higher prices as one reason. A possible rewards system through Eagle Waste has als...
KIMBALL, Wis. - The Kimball Homemakers held a craft show Saturday, at the Kimball Community Center to raise money for the Iron County 4-H. According to Mary Smith, Kimball Homemaker, the craft show will become a yearly event with the purpose of raising money for 4-H. "The proceeds from the table rentals the crafters paid goes to the Iron County 4-H for camperships for attendees. Last year 75 children were able to attend the week-long camp." Smith said. The community center offered table space...
MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) - Billionaire Richard Branson is promising to find out what caused the crash of his Virgin Galactic prototype space tourism rocket that killed a test pilot, but federal investigators are cautioning that it may take up to a year to learn exactly what went wrong. The crash in the California desert almost certainly dashed Branson's goal of starting suborbital flight next spring, but the mogul said that while he remained committed to civilian space travel "we are not going to...
DEPERE, Wis. - Margaret A. Koszloski, 92, of DePere, and a former longtime Jessieville Location, Ironwood, Mich., resident, died Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, at Angel's Touch Assisted Living Center in DePere. The former Margaret Munari was born Feb. 25, 1922, in Ironwood, daughter of the late John and Lucy (Finco) Munari, and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in 1939. She was employed in the sales catalog department at Montgomery Ward in downtown Ironwood for several years, and for many...
LITTLE GIRL'S POINT - Lake Road near Upper Powers Road is closed to traffic as the Maki Creek culvert replacement project has begun. It is the last of 10 culvert replacement projects throughout the county and by far the most extensive, and expensive. Smith Construction, of Marquette, the general contractor for the project, was expected to begin laying the culverts on Monday, according to an Xcel Energy worker who was at the scene on Friday. Massive amounts of dirt were being moved in...
BESSEMER - On a cold, mid-October morning, biology students in Bessemer conducted their annual forestry day and watershed assessment at Powdermill Creek in Bessemer. This year brought high water and cool temperatures, according to biology teacher Dave Rowe. "The high water made it more difficult to shock and net the trout than usual, but we still caught 15 that morning," he said. The annual event has been occurring for about 10 years and it involves students visiting various learning stations...
HURLEY - Students at the Hurley K-12 School got into the Halloween spirit Friday. Halloween capped off "Red Ribbon Week" at the school, highlighting anti-drinking, anti-bullying and anti-drugs. Students dressed up throughout the week in different themes to show their support of being drug- and alcohol-free and to stop bullying. On Friday, many students dressed in costumes, but another common theme was orange and black, in honor of the varsity football team's game at night against Spring Valley...
