Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD - The location of offices inside Luther L. Wright School in Ironwood were a focal point of discussion that split the board during an Ironwood Area Schools Board of Education meeting Monday evening. According to board member Leroy Johnson, he had some safety concerns regarding the location of one of the elementary offices on the first floor. With LLW becoming a K-12 building officially this upcoming school year, an early initial plan was to have the middle-high school office move up...
IRONWOOD - As Carl Levin prepares to leave office after spending the past 36 years as a U.S. senator, he wants Americans to know the effort in Afghanistan has not been a failure. While he said polls show 60 percent or more of Americans believe U.S. policies in Afghanistan have failed, he said, "We've accomplished a hell of a lot." Levin, D-Detroit, spoke to a Monday noon Gogebic County Democratic Party luncheon gathering at Tacconelli's. It was an opportunity for key members of the party to...
BESSEMER — Bessemer’s City Council denied selling the 7.1 acres of property near Steiger’s Field to private citizens, but did not make it an addition to nearby Bluff Valley Park as recommended by the city’s planning commission. At its meeting Monday, the council voted against selling the property, with Marlene Zaleski casting the only dissenting vote. “The feedback that I got from John Doe public was don’t sell it. Don’t sell any part of it,” Mayor Butch Semmerling said. Ron Zaleski, a member of the planning commission, and his wife, Marlene,...
IRONWOOD - A new game, the "commodity carnival", was available at the Gogebic County Fair this past weekend. The activity is designed to walk fairgoers through the steps of bringing steer and cattle to market. "It's a great way to introduce kids to how they get food on the table," Gogebic County 4-H coordinator Anne Newcombe said. As part of the activity, participants are given an empty egg and encouraged to fill it with small stones and "feed," to reach a specific weight. The stones represented...
ROCKLAND - The Society for Old Victoria held its 32nd annual craft fair and museum tour at Old Victoria Sunday. "It's our annual fundraiser," tour guide Lynette Webber said. "At least one-third of our annual income comes from this fair." The fair included 22 exhibitors, including the Keweenaw National Park Service. Items for sale included quilts, soaps, jams and jellies, duck calls and homemade jewelry. Other activities included kids games, live music and refreshments. Popular items at the event...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Ironwood Township will celebrate the grand opening of the Airport Recreation Park on Tuesday. The event runs from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the pavilion at the park. According to treasurer Jyl Olson-DeRosso, the park is "a decade in the making." Over the last 10 years, the township has acquired surrounding property, built soccer fields and more recently added a pavilion, walking track and playground equipment. The playground equipment was installed this summer, and was the final...
Two of the area's numerous waterfalls have been identified by CNN.com as in the top 10 in America. The secluded Potato River Falls, in Gurney, Wis., and Bond Falls, in Paulding, are among the best in the country, according to CNN. "You're likely to sweat a little to get to some of the best waterfalls, but they deliver a cool refuge and a powerful reminder of nature's force," Caitlin Schmidt writes in the CNN online article. Of Potato River Falls, in the heart of Gurney's potato and corn...
IRONWOOD - Cool, precipitation-free weather greeted Gogebic County Fairgoers on opening day Thursday as entries continued to be accepted in all departments. In front of the grandstand, area high schools competed in wheelbarrow races and other games in the "Youth Challenge," while kids enjoyed carnival rides and animals settled down in their new homes for the four-day fair. County clerk Gerry Pelissero delivered the youth games play-by-play analyses as the pushers of the wheelbarrows were...
HURLEY - Enough is enough. The Iron County Finance Committee took steps Thursday to prevent tax delinquent properties from showing up year after year. There are around 13 properties in Iron County behind four years on taxes, dating to 2010. Three property owners have began paying, but the remaining 10 parcels may be taken by Iron County. Each year, a deadline is set for people to pay the furthest year of taxes to keep their properties another year. Within the county, a final deadline is set...
ONTONAGON - For nine years, the Ontonagon Lake Trout Classic has raised funds for worthy groups in the area. For the past several years, the annual bowling tournament, led by Larry and Diane Greig, has raised funds for the Ontonagon County Cancer Association. This year the tournament was sponsored by Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital and Greig. County sheriff Dale Rantala presented OCCA president Bev Meagher with a check for $4,100 to financially assist cancer patients in Ontonagon County. Greig said...
HIDALGO, Texas (AP) - The first wave of National Guard troops has taken up observation posts along the Texas-Mexico border. Several dozen soldiers deployed in the Rio Grande Valley are part of the up to 1,000 troops called up by Gov. Rick Perry last month, Texas National Guard Master Sgt. Ken Walker of the Joint Counterdrug Task Force said Thursday. Several guardsmen were seen Thursday afternoon manning an observation tower along the busy road leading to the Hidalgo International Bridge. This...
WAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP - Students in need of school supplies in the Ironwood and Hurley school districts will get a little help from a local business and the Hurley Area Lioness through its Lori Lorendo Backpack Project. Extreme Tool and Manufacturing, of Wakefield Township, has donated more than $500 worth of school supplies, and a matching donation to the project. Beverly Michaels accepted the gifts Thursday afternoon on behalf of the Lioness, and thanked the employees of Extreme Tool and...
HURLEY - Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., with one person dying every four minutes as a result. The symptoms are silent, sudden and leave devastating effects on those who suffer from a stroke. In the medical field, research has been conducted on how strokes occur, how it affects the body and ways to prevent strokes from happening. For the employees of Avanti Home Health, strokes hit home in April, when one of their own, a 36-year-old registered nurse, suffered a stroke....
BESSEMER - Bessemer's Planning Commission has recommended that city council shouldn't sell the 7.1 acres of public land near Steiger's Field to private citizens, and instead make it a part of Bluff Valley Park. Commissioners Bill Steiger and Ron Zaleski were absent from the meeting held Wednesday afternoon, though Steiger said in an email he opposed the sale. Zaleski and his wife, Marlene, a city council member, requested buying about 4.6 acres of city-owned land north of West Iron Street, and...
IRONWOOD - The Youth Drama Club, through the Ironwood Carnegie Library and Historic Ironwood Theatre, is participating in two performances this weekend of "Once Upon a Wolf," a new take on classic fairy-tales. The performances are Friday at 5:30 p.m. at the Ironwood Memorial Building and Saturday at noon on the small stage at the Gogebic County Fair in Ironwood. Both performances are free of charge. According to co-director Mary Hansen, the play features eight different fairy-tales, with four...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland, Ore., police were told there was a chicken — and it was attempting to cross the road. In fact, the citizen who called the police non-emergency line on Monday evening reported the chicken’s efforts to cross a road in a north Portland neighborhood were bringing traffic nearly to a standstill. He assured the dispatcher he was not joking. The dispatcher chuckled — and asked a clarifying question. “It’s just the one chicken?” The caller said yes. Sgt. Pete Simpson said responding officers were unable to locate the ch...
