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Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission went on record this week supporting the May 5 Michigan ballot proposal that would increase the sales tax from 6 percent to 7 percent to fund transportation improvements. Mayor Kim Corcoran said Proposal 1 would provide safer roadways for Michigan, which ranks among the bottom states in the condition of its roads. In addition, the mayor said there are 19 “structurally deficient” bridges in Gogebic County alone that need repairs. The resolution in support of Proposal A says Michigan has relied on “Band...
IRONWOOD — The city of Ironwood’s fight against blight has been expanded to include businesses. In reviewing the city’s code of ordinances pertaining to blight, it was discovered nothing was included regarding commercial operations. The city commission meeting on Monday began with a public hearing to receive comments on changing the blight code to reflect commercial operations. No comments were received from the public after Jason Alonen, the city’s blight enforcement officer, spoke. Alonen, responding to questions from the city commiss...
WAKEFIELD — More than 3,000 people were killed in distracted-affected crashes nationwide in 2012. The Michigan State Police and National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration seek to educate the public about the dangers of distracted driving. When visiting the MSP website, the first banner reads, “One text or call could wreck it all,” as part of the national campaign to bring awareness to distracted driving. April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month in the United States. “Distracted driving is a known serious problem, however...
The return of warm weather to the Gogebic Range on Wednesday was accompanied by lightning, rain and wind damage. Trees were knocked down across Range roadways and the 300-foot transmitter tower that WUPM-106.9 FM radio uses on Anvil Hill in the Bessemer area was toppled by wind, according to the Gogebic County Sheriff's Department. Gusts were recorded as high as 50 mph, according to the National Weather Service offices in Negaunee and Duluth. WUPM's Chuck Gervasio said Thursday afternoon that...
HURLEY — Will Andresen had some good news for the Ironwood City Commission on Monday evening. The Community Resource Development Educator with the Iron County University of Wisconsin-Extension office said $50,000 has been raised for the Western Gateway non-motorized trail project in the Ironwood area. The local fund-raising effort, called a “Bridge the Gap” campaign, matches a $295,000 first phase trail grant received for the project. Andresen, who lives in Ironwood, said 54 people or businesses pledged money to the drive. “This is great to hea...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Air Choice One CEO Shane Storz met with the Gogebic-Iron County Airport Board Wednesday in an attempt to repair relations with both the board and customers in the area after several issues caused a number of flights in March to be cancelled. According to documents provided by Storz, the airline had 104 completed flights in Ironwood for the month of March, whereas the airport's normal rate was 156 per month. Storz explained that the problems that caused the drop had been...
IRONWOOD — The city commission on Monday proclaimed April 24-May 3 National Dance Week in the city of Ironwood. The proclamation suggested by Mayor Kim Corcoran was approved after Joan Movrich addressed the commission about the Ironwood Dance Company’s contributions to the community and its current anti-bullying campaign. Margaret Grachek, president, director and teacher for the Ironwood Dance Company, expressed her gratitude for the support the city commission has given to the IDC in the past. In a letter to the commission, she said the ant...
HURLEY - Around 650 students from Hurley, Ironwood and Bessemer schools took part in a day-long event held at the Hurley K-12 School on Tuesday. Michael McGowan, President of McGowan and Associates, led many programs throughout the day, for students of all ages. McGowan's training and consulting firm specializes in handling school, alcohol, drug, conflict resolution, workplace and family issues. He presents school assemblies every year, with each presentation being tailored by grade level and...
IRONWOOD - The Gogebic Community College board heard three separate presentations to start Tuesday's monthly meeting. First, Diane Oliver, the President of Snowflake Aquatics, thanked the board for their support of the pool and the Barracuda Swim Team. Elijah Sprague, Sol Lagalo, Axton Ruotsala, and Luca and Sophia Villanueva, recently competed in the YMCA state swim meet in Brown Deer, Wis. The boys relay team, consisting of the four boys listed above even shaved 2.34 seconds off their time at...
IRONWOOD -Beacon Ambulance Operations Manager Randy Forstrom was at Luther L. Wright on March 20 and March 23 to teach members of the district's high school JROTC program CPR and how to use the defibrillators in the school. The school's curriculum requires that members of its JROTC program receive first aid training, however, 1st Sgt. William Murphy - one of the program's instructors - decided to have the students learn more than the required minimum. "Instead of just teaching first aid, what...
IRONWOOD - For the fifth year in a row, the Ironwood physics team took first place in the Engineering Olympics at Michigan Tech University on March 24. The team - also known as the 22 students in Kevin Lyon's 12th grade physics class - was divided into groups, with each group competing in one of the tournament's five categories. Designed to use a number of physics principles, four of the categories - building a trebuchet, mouse trap-powered car, a tooth-pick bridge and a tennis ball launcher -...
WAKEFIELD - Plans to move forward with the removal of two condemned buildings was announced Monday night at the Wakefield City Council meeting. The Laundromat along Sunday Lake Street and the property at 111 Bedell will be demolished and removed within the season and city manager Margot Anderson's goal is before the 4th of July. The council approved the calling for bids for equipment for the demolition and removal of these buildings. The council also decided to change the plans of the revolver...
WAKEFIELD - They plunged for the health of it into Sunday Lake on Saturday afternoon and to remember loved ones through Regional Hospice. The ninth annual Polar Plunge went off under sunshine and air temperatures around 35. With about 18 inches of snow and ice still covering the lake, a square was again cut out for the jumping competition. Dozens of divers tested the frigid waters. The event was scheduled for 2 p.m., but with a cold wind, it kicked off early. Master of ceremonies John Oberto,...
ONTONAGON - Purple "Disable the Label" shirts were everywhere at the Regional Inclusive Community Coalition disability awareness event Friday in Ontonagon. March is developmental disability awareness month and the event featured information booths and simulation activities. Visitors used devices which simulated what it was like to have hearing, sight and strength disabilities so they could experience what it is like to have such handicaps. Michigan State University Extension had a booth...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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"...
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...
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...
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...
