Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
HURLEY - The University of Wisconsin's Iron County Extension Office is seeking donations to repair one of the train trestles that span the Montreal River, connecting Ironwood and Hurley, as part of a larger 16-mile trail construction project that would connect the Montreal Wis., ski trails with Sunday Lake in Wakefield. Organizers are looking for $50,000 in donations to add railings to the trestle and decking over the existing wooden beams so that it could be safely traveled on, explained Will...
ONTONAGON - Officials at the Ontonagon Country Animal Protection shelter held a "thank you" celebration on March 17 for a dedicated group of student volunteers from the Ontonagon Area Schools Senior Service Project class. The Senior Service Project is a required class for students planning to graduate from Ontonagon in May. Students are expected to find and maintain a community or school project to meet this requirement. The variety and length of the projects vary widely. While there have been...
BESSEMER - Area families attended the 10th annual Family Wellness Night at Washington Elementary on Tuesday evening. The event is mostly organized by physical education teacher, Janet Hellman. "I think everybody is enjoying it," said Hellman at the event. Balloons provided by Aspirus Grand View Hospital and Dr. Micheal Gregor Family Dental filled the gymnasium. Head teacher at Washington Elementary, Diana Hansen, said there were many families out for the event, including many new faces. Tables...
HURLEY - Neil Klemme, the youth development agent with the University of Wisconsin's Iron County Extension Office, is excited for the arrival of summer - not just because of the warm weather but also because it's time for another 4-H Iron County Summer Youth Camp. This year is going to be a first for Klemme as he has decided to add a special camp for sixth and seventh graders that will run alongside the traditional third- through fifth-grade camp. "It's really my favorite week of the year," said...
BESSEMER — The Bessemer City Council chamber was filled with about a dozen members of the public on Monday evening, with public comment focused on sewer rate increases for the city customers. “This area here is depressed as it is and then you’re going to slap on all these fees on people,” said one concerned citizen. “There’s nobody that’s on fixed incomes that can afford that.” According to city manager Mike Uskiewicz, there is $5,265,000 in grants available to repair the sewer. “The remaining...
IRONWOOD - After a brief presentation by Student Senate President Robert Burchell, the Ironwood Area Schools Board of Education approved Burchell's request to expand the school's senior privileges at Monday's board meeting. The change to the policy - which allows the district's seniors who meet the requirements to leave campus for lunch - will extend the period of the privilege from the current week before graduation to begin April 1. Burchell's request did expand the requirements needed to...
