Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD - Theatre-goers took a trip down the rabbit hole with 51 local children during performances of "Alice in Wonderland" Saturday at the Historic Ironwood Theatre. The play was organized by Gannon Styles and Bridget Leary, of Prairie Fire Children's Theatre in Barret, Minn. According to Bruce Greenhill, managing director of HIT, this is the seventh or eighth year PFCT has come to Ironwood to put on a show. While some shows take months to put together, children in Ironwood did it in five...
IRONWOOD - Local residents got some exercise and viewed eco-friendly art pieces during the "Art in the Park" exhibition in Ironwood on Saturday. The event was sponsored by the Friends of the Miners Memorial Heritage Park. Attendees started near Lorenson Baseball Field, and trekked 1 mile around the Aurora Loop to view the art pieces. Each piece was environmentally-friendly and attendees were able to vote for their favorite pieces. Pieces will be on display until July 26, and people can vote...
BESSEMER - Axes were flying during the first ever lumberjack show on Massie Field over the weekend, as part of Bessemer Blast 2014. According to Linda Nelson, chair of the Bessemer Blast Committee, the committee had been trying to get this event on the schedule for quite some time. "We've been look at having an event like this for a couple years and we finally made a connection," Nelson said. The show included various lumberjack-inspired competitions, including axe-throwing and the standing...
LUDINGTON (AP) - Sixty-eight years after she was left on the doorstep of a western Michigan family's home, Julie Himebaugh is still trying to discover the identity of her parents and why her mother decided to give her up. Ludington police said this month they no longer have records of the discovery of the baby on May 7, 1946. But the Detroit Free Press reported Sunday stories in several newspapers at the time paint a detailed picture of the baby's discovery. Himebaugh was about 6 months old...
IRONWOOD - Employees at Aspirus Grand View Hospital prepared for the worst on Friday, participating in a mock disaster drill. The drill featured a mock explosion at an Ironwood home, with eight "patients" seeking medical attention at the hospital. Patients were played by junior volunteers at the hospital, with a variety of injuries as a result of the explosion. Medical personnel were informed chemicals were possibly involved in the explosion. Patients arrived by Beacon Ambulance or walked in...
HURLEY - The son of one of the six men who lost their lives in two B-47 crashes near Hurley in 1961 said Friday the memorial dedicated today will be a "testament to those killed in defense of their country, including others who were killed and don't have a memorial." Darrell Rasmussen and 27 of his family members traveled from Nebraska to attend a Friday ceremony at the Iron County Memorial Building in Hurley. The joke was half of Nebraska showed up. His father, Dale Rasmussen, was one of the...
MERCER, Wis. - A crowd attended the first event of the Science and Conservation on Tap series offered by the Iron County Land and Water Conservation Department June 19 in Mercer. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources fisheries biologist Dave Neuswanger discussed fish in his presentation, "The Challenges and Opportunities for Fisheries Management in Iron County." Neuswanger covered the challenges of managing fish populations, including the lengthy process for approving new regulations...
IRONWOOD - Sixth through eighth grade members of the Valley Community Presbyterian Church of Golden Valley, Minn., came to the area to offer a helping hand. On Thursday afternoon, the group of kids was washing the Ironwood Public Safety Department's fire trucks. "We're here doing missionary work and helping out the city," said Andrew Gillett, a member of the Minnesota church and chaperone on the trip. Gillett said the group of junior high schoolers and chaperones arrived in town Wednesday night...
For a fresh take on barbecued pulled pork we decided to reinvent it from the bottom up. And we started by ditching the pork. As delicious as pork is, for this July Fourth offering we wanted something that didn't take hours upon hours on the grill. Instead, we went with chicken thighs. Nearly as lean as chicken breasts, thighs stay moist and are difficult to overcook. They also happen to be delicious when doused with a one-two punch of lemon-pepper sauce. We start by marinating the thighs in a...
CARLETON (AP) - With a flick of his wrist, Robbie McKnight can move five plastic digits close together to pick up objects. The movement, commonplace for most people, was something Robbie, 14, hadn't been able to experience with his right hand before. Now he has a robotic hand thanks to Airport Community Schools' staff creativity and a 3D printer. Robbie, an eighth-grader at Wagar Middle School, was born with amniotic band syndrome, which occurs when a fetus is entangled in the amniotic bands in...
IRONWOOD - Saturday marks the final day to turn in projects for the second annual Foot in the Door12-by-12-inch Art Sale at the Downtown Art Place. For months, artists have picked up square, wooden boards and decorated them any way they chose. Some boards are on display at DAP, and feature a variety of mediums and subjects. According to Char Brickner, artists can still pick up a board if they choose, as long as it's done by Saturday. There is a deposit fee for each board that will be returned...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday set a 2018 deadline for the government to complete a long-delayed recovery plan for imperiled Canada lynx in the Lower 48 states. Wildlife advocates had asked U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy to push the government into faster action on the snow-loving big cats, which were added to the list of threatened species in 2000. But after federal officials said budget issues and competing priorities were slowing their work, Molloy indicated Wednesday...
EAST LANSING (AP) - The smell of death in the air at Michigan State University drew crowds following the blooming of the corpse flower. The roughly 5-foot tall flower has the formal name Amorphophallus titanum. Its smell is described as like that of a rotting body, or sometimes merely like dirty socks. Hundreds of people stood in line Tuesday to see the flower at the Plant Biology Conservatory. The rare bloom only lasts a few days. The plant last bloomed in 2010 and before that in 1995. Julia...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Zoo is welcoming three little - and very rare - piglets. Officials on Monday announced the birth of three Chacoan peccaries. The triplets were born on June 3. The pig-like animals are named for the Gran Chaco area of Paraguay, where researchers found the first live specimens in the early 1970s. Before then, scientists had only fossil records and thought the species was extinct. Chacoan peccaries are critically endangered because of hunting and habitat loss....
IRONWOOD - The new ice-making system at the Patrick O'Donnell Civic Center is allowing summer open skating for the first time. Civic center manager Brian Roehm said Tuesday he hopes for a good turnout of skaters from Friday through July 4, a test period for the new system. The new ice-making equipment was first used last fall and Roehm had no complaints about how it performed during the winter months. "With kids being out of school, we're hoping for a good response. Word is getting out," Roehm...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - For Queen Elizabeth II, one throne is enough. The United Kingdom's 88-year-old monarch toured the Belfast sets of the hit HBO series "Game of Thrones" and met many of its stars Tuesday beside the show's sword-covered seat of power, the Iron Throne. Unlike many visitors to Belfast's Titanic Studios, the monarch declined to try out a throne legendarily forged from a thousand blades for the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. Instead, she received a miniature model as a gi...
By CORTNEY OFSTAD [email protected] HURLEY - The Iron County Board of Supervisors held a brief meeting Monday evening at the Iron County Courthouse. The board approved canceling the outstanding checks from 2012, a total of around $1,312. The amount will be transfered into the county's general fund. During public comment, Aileen Potter, of Montreal, addressed the board on the plans to begin the local agreement with mining company Gogebic Taconite. The Iron County Mining Impact Committee...
