Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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MERCER, Wis. - With fall weather sticking around before the snow flurries stay, people are encouraged to visit waterfalls across Iron County. The idea to promote the 11 waterfalls in the county came from students in the publishing class at the Mercer School. Neil Klemme, the youth development agent at the Iron County University of Wisconsin-Extension office, presented the idea of having the students become more involved in county-based marketing projects. The students helped to redesigned the...
ONTONAGON COUNTY - Senior citizens recently enjoyed the fall colors in Ontonagon County from the seat of an off-road vehicle during the seventh annual Senior Fall Color Tour. According to a release from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, nearly 100 senior citizens occupied the passenger seats of two-, four- and six-person side-by-side ORVs as the group traveled a 19-mile route from Greenland to Twin Lakes State Park. The color ride is organized and provided entirely by volunteers...
IRONWOOD — Three more individuals and a local organization will be honored Thursday for their commitment to Gogebic Community College and the community at the 19th annual “Celebration of Achievements” banquet, hosted by the GCC Foundation. This year’s honorees include distinguished alumnus Robert Baima, class of 1971, and Walter Prosek, class of 1940. Distinguished faculty member Roy Contratto, will also be honored, and the Ironwood Kiwanis Club will be deemed Honorary Friends of the College. Baima Baima, a Hurley native, graduated from GC...
BESSEMER - The city of Bessemer is looking to remove a blighted structure at 506 S. Moore St., for which it would receive grant reimbursements from the Michigan State Housing and Development Authority. Officials were notified in July that Gogebic County received the MSHDA Blight Elimination grant, along with four other Upper Peninsula counties: Alger, Delta, Houghton and Marquette. The grant money, totaling $168,950, is to be used for elimination of 11 publicly-owned residential structures and...
SAXON, Wis. - More than 50 people spent Saturday night participating in a live auction as part of a the annual Fall Harvest Fundraiser for the Saxon-Gurney Community Presbyterian Church. Attendees signed up for paddles, and bid on variousitems, including gift certificates, fresh produce, tools, toys, wooden items and homemade wine, pies and other baked goods. The event started in Gurney "many years ago," Diana Norman, the church's clerk of session, said. In 1956, the event moved from Gurney to...
Nearly 80 people took part in the first Veterans "Run for the Colors" ORV Ride, from the Wakefield American Legion to the west end of the Ottawa National Forest on Sept. 27. The ride was a cooperative effort between the Upper Peninsula ORV Trail Development Association, Western UP Trails Association, Veterans Outdoor World, Lake States Resource Alliance and the Wakefield American Legion. Other entities helping in to make the ride possible included the Michigan Department of Natural Resources,...
WENDOVER, Utah - Kimball, Wis., native Gary Ilminen cranked up his 40-year-old Honda motorcycle in a record run here at the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials near the end of August. The American Motorcyclist Association Grand National Championships for amateur motorcycle land speed racing are held annually. "Setting a speed record there means gaining recognition as the national speed record-holder and being awarded an AMA Grand National Championship Number 1 racing plate for the...
IRONWOOD - Aspirus Grand View Hospital held an open house Thursday to show the public its new emergency department. Officials said the project, which included relocating the hospital's lab and pharmacy, cost $4 million and completely changed the appearance and structure of the hospital's emergency care location. "It's like working in a whole new place," said Brian Hughes, one of the full-time physicians in the department. Hughes has been at AGVH for two years, but in the emergency medicine...
WAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP - Plans for a new 140-bed hotel and adjoining casino are in the works for the top of the Indianhead Mountain Ski Resort in Wakefield Township. Barry Bolich, manager of Indianhead and Blackjack Mountain ski resorts, and tribal leaders from the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians gave a presentation to the township board and planning commission at a meeting in September. "At this point, we've entered into and signed a letter of intent ... to pursue and study...
HAZELHURST, Wis. - Family vacations for the Joe and Molly Bodewes family of Hazelhurst, Wis., are never boring. In 2011, the family paddled 1,600 miles around Lake Superior in 72 days, finishing at Black River Harbor, north of Ironwood. They raised money for HIV-positive children in Tanzania. This summer, the challenge moved out West as the family successfully tackled a 2,500-mile bicycle trip across America. They planned on a 55-day journey, but finished in 47 days on Aug. 6, riding along the...
BALSAM LAKE, Wis. - Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources wardens helped rescue two bear cubs stuck in a big tree in northern Wisconsin on Sunday. Joanne Haas, of the DNR, said the cubs were rescued from a Polk County tree. A woman reported hearing strange animal noises coming from the tree, and she saw a snout sticking out of a crack in the trunk on Saturday. When the cubs were still stranded on Sunday, she called for help and the DNR responded. Conservation wardens Phil Dorn, of Barron...
HURLEY - Around 20 volunteers from different local organizations and agencies braved cold, rainy weather to help plant trees across the city of Hurley on Tuesday. The planting is part of a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Urban Forestry Start-Up Grant. Hurley received 17 trees of different varieties, including white and red oak and ironwood. Trees were planted along Maple and Poplar streets and Sixth and Seventh avenues. According to Don Kissinger, regional urban forestry coordinator...
After the most brutal winter in the past 110 years in Ironwood, Gogebic Range residents wouldn't mind a reprieve from the bitter cold for the next five months. The Farmers Almanac isn't predicting any relief, however. The magazine predicts a "shivery and shovely" winter of 2014-15. For its two-month forecast in the Great Lakes states, the almanac predicts a lot of wet weather for October, followed by a Nov. 8-19 period that could produce plenty of wet snow and some frigid temperatures. For the e...
HURLEY - The Board of Directors for the Aging Unit of Iron County met Wednesday to discuss its budget and intend to give the unit's employees wage increases, if it gets a larger allocation from the county. The Aging Unit's typical county allocation is $106,000. The unit will ask for an additional $15,000 for next year's budget, and a one time request of $4,000 for this year's budget to help pay off its debt for a new roof on the Hurley Senior Center. The Aging Unit's budget proposal, which was...
HURLEY - Economic development was the main topic during Tuesday's Iron County Board of Supervisors meeting. On Thursday, members of the board are invited to attend a workshop sponsored by the Iron County Economic Development Corporation. Supervisor Larry Youngs said he believed the county needs to improve it's economic standings. "We have to do something now, because waiting for this mine is like waiting for the second coming of Christ," Youngs said. "The only thing to help Iron County, is Iron...
IRONWOOD - High school students at Luther L. Wright School in Ironwood did their best chef impressions during the Homecoming Week cook-off competition on Tuesday night. Teacher Cheryl Jacisin organized the event, giving students instructions on what items they would be preparing for three judges. Students prepared elk this year, something different from other meals they have made before. Other mandatory ingredients included either Asian pears or apples, potatoes or rice, carrots or beans and...
IRONWOOD - Gogebic Community College's Board of Trustees at its meeting Tuesday heard the college's enrollment has grown by about 2 percent from last year to 1,122, one of only three community colleges in Michigan to experience the upward trend. The college also saw an increase in credits taken this year, said Miranda Lawver, assistant registrar and institutional researcher at GCC. "Gogebic is the only one up - actually Henry Ford (Community College) is too - up both in head counts and credits...
IRONWOOD - Since Sunday, Aspirus Grand View Hospital in Ironwood, along with Aspirus Ontonagon and Aspirus Keweenaw, joined the Epic system, making medical records easier to share amongst hospitals, clinics and even to the patients themselves. The system replaces traditional paper charts for patients, and Aspirus has encouraged its hospitals to modernize. A major plus, according to Grand View administration and employees is the sharing of information among other hospitals or clinics. "Many...
