Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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BESSEMER - This year, Bessemer's high school Science Olympiad team, with 36 total players including alternates, won first place in the Upper Peninsula regional competition at Northern Michigan University in Marquette in February. The junior high team took second place. Both are moving on to the 2015 State Tournament on May 2 at Michigan State University in East Lansing. Teachers Dave and Tracy Rowe, along with parents and other teachers, have been practicing with the students for a long time....
ERWIN TOWNSHIP - Roughly 120 children participated in the Lapset Loppet, the final event of the 2015 Sisu Ski Fest, at the ABR Ski Trails on Tuesday. Participants completed a 2.2k course on cross country skis before recieving a participation medal and heading inside for hot chocolate and cookies. The event was held later than previous years after organizers decided the later start would increase the chance of missing the poor weather that affected last year's event, event coordinator Paulette Ni...
IRONWOOD - The stage of the Historic Ironwood Theatre will be turned over to high school students this weekend as The Awkward Stage Youth Drama Club stages three productions of "While the Lights Were Out" on Friday and Saturday. Described as an "over the top farce" with "serious undertones" by Ethan Puisto, the club's president and a sophomore at Luther L. Wright High School, the play is based around a dinner party that goes awry when a diner is murdered during a power outage. Puisto plays the r...
BESSEMER - The Bessemer City Council heard from Bessemer Chamber of Commerce president Kathy Whitburn about the chamber's plans for the year. "We are very excited to keep supporting, and keep stepping up ... to introduce some new programs to the business community," Whitburn said. The chamber's next event is a "Business After 5" on Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the Pit Stop Bar & Grill. Plans are for similar events every other month. The chamber is also holding an Easter Extravaganza for area children...
IRONWOOD - It was the Bowl For Kids fundraising event Saturday at Larry's Lucky Strikes for the U.P. Kids Big Brothers Big Sisters program. Mentors and kids from the program as well as community members raised funds for the program in order to bowl for the cause. Each bowler only had to raise $37 for the event, but many raised even more. Maggie Munch, program director from the Houghton office and coordinator of the Bowl for Kids program, said the event is more than just bowling, it is about...
By ALISSA PIETILA [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Ironwood Township celebrated Frost Fest Saturday activities for kids, food and vendors filling the gymnasium and most of the basement. The kids activities included balloon animals and face-painting. Brenna Erickson, who makes wooden crafts and other items, makes her products after her children go to bed and said it's her "me time." She said she had a good number of people stop by her table through the morning. Amy Foster, administ...
KIMBALL, Wis. — It was turkey with all the fixings all Sunday afternoon at the Kimball Volunteer Fire Department’s 33rd annual Turkey Dinner fundraiser. Fire Chief John Smith called the turn out “very good” with a mid-afternoon rush that pushed the number of diners to more than 800 by 3 p.m. More were expected before closing at 5. The money raised each year helps the department with purchasing all sorts of equipment and training, Smith said. “We buy gear, hoses, all sorts of things. It helps take the pressure off the town’s budget. We’re able...
KIMBALL, Wis. - Area law enforcement officers and the Hurley Fire Department responded to the scene of a 10 p.m. Friday personal injury accident on U.S. 2, near the Corkscrew liquor store, east of County D. The front end of a pickup truck was demolished, but it was unclear how many vehicles were involved in the crash. An officer at the scene said all of the people involved in the crash were transported to Aspirus Grand View Hospital by Beacon Ambulances, while firefighters and police officers...
BAYFIELD, Wis. - Ice has formed with enough thickness along the Apostle Islands Ice Caves to allow viewing along the mainland unit of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. If conditions remain the same or improve, the Ice Caves will open on Saturday. The Ice Caves feature some of the most spectacular cliffs and sea caves found in the Great Lakes. Features differ every year, as does the route to view them. "This year there is very little snow and a lot of glare ice, making the route exceptionally...
ONTONAGON - Instead of Ontonagon being at the end of the trail, village manager Joe Erickson wants it to be a place to start vacations and obtain jobs. The village and its council are taking a two-pronged approach to realizing that goal. One of the prongs is providing more recreational opportunities and the other is encouraging more businesses to move into the area. Ontonagon is nearing approval for a Michigan Natural Resources grant to provide a paddle craft and kayak site on Rose Island,...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — The Michigan Department of Community Health won't proceed with Upper Peninsula regionalization health depa...
BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday agreed to call for bids on a new roof on the annex to the courthouse. The building and grounds committee recommended seeking bids. The bid opening will be on March 23, according to Tom Laabs, of Ironwood, chair of the committee. Laabs said it could be around a $100,000 project, with funding possibly to come from the delinquent tax fund. He said the project would extend from May to around June 15, with the old roof being torn off and replaced. In other business Wednesday, the c...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — There have been eight cases of head lice in the past few weeks in the Hurley School District. Zona Wick, of the Iron County Health Department, said precautions are being taken to hold down the number of students contacting lice at the K-12 school. She said the cases have been occurring in the lower elementary students, from kindergarten through third grade. “The smaller children like to touch and hug each other and it's commonly found in the lower grades because they have so much direct contac...
FIREFIGHTERS WATCH as a chimney fire gets put out in a home on Rock Road in Ironwood on Wednesday night. The Ironwood Fire Department was called to the fire just before 8 p.m. The fire was put out very quickly, as fire trucks left the scene by 8:30 p.m....
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP resident Paul Kleimola clears the snow off his roof for the third time this winter....
HURLEY - After two failed motions to postpone action, the Iron County Board of Supervisors voted 8-7 to approve the proposed amendments to mining company Gogebic Taconite's lease option for its proposed mine site near Upson. According to documents provided to the press, the approved amendment would change two sections of the company's option, which allows the company to maintain the lease of the property until the actual lease goes into effect, county Clerk Michael Saari explained after the...
IRONWOOD - The Gogebic Community College Board of Trustees met on Tuesday night to a approve Copper Country Campus expansion plans. Chairman John Lupino said the board had quite a bit of discussion on the expansion plans prior to the board meeting. The new plan features a front entrance in the Copper Country Mall, as well as three classrooms and many offices. One of the large classrooms can also be divided into two smaller rooms as needed. "This can allow us to generate more income up there,"...
IRONWOOD - Area high school students gathered in the gymnasium of Gogebic Community College's Lindquist Center for a Life Quest Program on Monday. The event was not open to the general public due to a lack of space, as witnessed by the bleachers filled with students. The Department of Human Services, DOVE, Inc., the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department, Community Mental Health and others had booths for the students to browse and attain more information about what is available in the communi...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Citing, in part, that job descriptions were in the process of being rewritten, the board of trustees voted to table Rachel Peck's request to join Michigan Council 25 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Robert Murphy - a staff representative with the union - spoke on behalf of Peck, who serves as the township's secretary and deputy treasurer. Murphy asked the board to voluntarily recognize Peck's union membership. The board expressed...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP -Seventy-five snowshoers gathered on a sunny Saturday morning at Wolverine Ski Trail to participate in the annual Yooperbeiner Snowshoe Race/Tour. The day featured a 5k and 10k race as well as a 1.2k race for children 12 and under. The races, sponsored by Aspirus Grand View, are a United States Snowshoe Association-sanctioned event and part of the Braveheart Snowshoe Race Series. Tim Buerger and Siggy Buerger finished with the fastest times in 5k race while Paul Buerger and...
