Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) - An annual board game convention seems to be growing in popularity, thanks in part to a rise in specialty games that combine skill and strategy instead relying on a roll of the dice. Over 400 people filled the Manitowoc County Expo Center this weekend for the convention, HTR Media reported. That's up from about 50 when enthusiast Dan Kelm began the event in 2001. Kelm, who's from the Sheboygan area, started the conventions as a way to meet like-minded people. He said...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP – The Aspirus Grand View hospital held its second annual YooperBeiner Snowshoe Race and Tour Saturday morning at the Wolverine Nordic trails. This year's race was the first sanctioned by the United States Ski and Snowboard Association. It is also part of the Braveheart Snowshoe Race Series. A kids race plus a 5K and 10K race were held. The 5K ran the length of the ski trails only and the 10K ran the length of the ski trails along with the snowshoe trail. "We usually get a...
IRONWOOD – The 14th annual Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowl for Kids was held at Larry's Lucky Strikes Saturday afternoon. The event included 3 sessions of bowling. About 100 bowlers and children attended the event. "There are some new teams," said match support coordinator Kristy Recla, "and lots of returning bowlers." Each participant was required to raise $37 in pledges, which translated into two hours of bowling and free refreshments. For the last two years, the event has raised $14,000 to $...
IRONWOOD - 23 young thespians lit up the stage this weekend at the Historic Ironwood Theatre's production of "Rumbo," directed by Mary Hansen and Gene Goss, a collaborative effort between the theatre and the Carnegie Library. The actors were supported by a seven member backstage team. The rock star ensemble brought the parody to life and riffed it into a wildly entertaining nine act play that had theatre patrons howling with laughter. Of the cast, Hansen said, "I am so proud of them. They all...
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Students at Marquette University have received NASA permission to send a tiny satellite into space that will photograph the Earth for about three months. The satellite will be part of a NASA program that encourages research in engineering and technology. The space agency allows a handful of institutions each year to produce cube-shaped satellites, or CubeSats, that it launches into low orbits. It approved Marquette's proposal and 15 other projects this month. The Milwaukee schoo...
IRONWOOD - Storm Seneca packed a wallop on the Gogebic Range that was still being felt Friday evening, as blowing and drifting snow continued to make driving hazardous. The Gogebic Range was hit with from a foot to 15 inches of snow on Thursday night into Friday evening, closing schools and businesses. Strong winds continued into Friday night as the plows couldn't keep up with the drifting. The impact of the storm was every bit as severe as the National Weather Service had predicted. The...
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia - Resi Stiegler's string of crash-free runs ended Friday, a frustrating conclusion to the Sochi Olympics for an athlete who returned to the Games after multiple wreck-induced injuries. Stiegler, of Jackson Hole, Wyo., was 20th after the first of two runs at the Rosa Khotor course, but her second run ended in the second of three sections on the course. Stiegler had trimmed time from her first run, completing the first section almost 1 second faster than her first run....
MASS CITY - St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Mass City is working year-round to reach out to the world and better local communities. The small church has a group of dedicated quilters who meet each Wednesday for fellowship, food and quilting. The group makes quilts together to donate to various local and worldwide organizations. "While the number of quilters varies week to week, their yearly production of 80 to 90 quilts is pretty steady - 88 units were shipped this year," parishioner Ken Raisanen...
BESSEMER — A.D. Johnston biology students have been enjoying an informal lecture series that started last fall. The series started when Roger Greil, an aquatic lab manager at Lake Superior State University, talked about lake sturgeon, and continued when Peter David, a wildlife biologist from the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, talked about wild rice. Greil, a Bessemer native, said the lake sturgeon is a “relic from the age of the dinosaurs that has appeared unchanged for the...
IRONWOOD - A troop of area Girl Scouts' personal assistants was hard at work Thursday morning at the Ironwood Public Safety Department. A total of 17,424 boxes of Girl Scout cookies arrived, up from 500 and 1,000 boxes from last year, Lisa Spencer said. Janelle Irwin, of Wakefield, was on hand, assisting and collecting her daughter, Rachel Curry's, 211 boxes of cookies. The girl, 5, exceeded her goal and earned a stuffed panda, as well as the opportunity to see the Lowell Street Band in August,...
KALAMAZOO (AP) - A 10-foot-tall dragon made of snow has made an appearance outside a southwestern Michigan home. The creature in Kalamazoo is the creation of Mike Huver, who says it's the latest in a series of snow dragons that he's built. Huver tells the Kalamazoo Gazette that he does it for the fun. Huver said he took the day off work Wednesday to take advantage of a brief burst of relatively warmer weather. More snow and cold is forecast in Michigan....
HURLEY - Forty-one Hurley third graders made the trek to the ice caves along the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore near Bayfield, Wis., Tuesday. According to teacher Mike Swartz, the students walked about 3.5 miles to the caves and back. "They were fine going out there, but on the way back, the sun was shining and the kids started to get hot," Swartz said. "We did bring a sled in case we had any problems, but we didn't have to use it." Temperatures reached the 40s in northern Wisconsin on...
By CORTNEY OFSTAD [email protected] IRONWOOD - The 14th annual Bowl for Kids, through Big Brothers Big Sisters, is set for Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. The event will be at Larry Lucky Strikes and teams of four to eight people are welcome to register for the event. Teams can pre-register and each participant must raise a minimum of $37 in pledges to be eligible for two hours of bowling. According to Kristy Recla, match support coordinator for BBBS, the event is the only fund-raiser for...
MONROE (AP) - A Michigan utility has welcomed a flock of visitors to the state's biggest power plant this winter. But they aren't all that personable. The south-flying out-of-towners - nearly 200 bald eagles - have taken up residence at DTE Energy's massive plant along Lake Erie, transforming 800 acres in Monroe into their cozy, cold-weather abode. The birds have been a common sight these past few frigid months, patiently perching on tree branches and using their 6- to 7-foot wingspans to smooth...
Numerous communities across the Upper Peninsula, including Ironwood, have issued water let-run notices to prevent homeowners' pipes from freezing. With frost already more than 7 feet deep across the U.P., homeowners are struggling with frozen water lines, especially where there is little snow cover. Many U.P. water customers are being asked to run their water at a pencil eraser width until further notice and keep the snow cover over the lines. Bob Richards, of the Ironwood department of public...
IRONWOOD - The Gogebic Range is being represented at the 2014 Pure Michigan Governor's Conference on Tourism in Traverse City in March, competing for $5,000. Mara MacKay and Sandy Sharp of Old Wood LLC., submitted an idea to the conference called History Prize, an annual event focused on historical aspects of cultures not just on the Gogebic Range, but around the world. According to MacKay, the idea was submitted for the conference's Jump Start competition, giving $5,000 to the best pitch to...
MASON (AP) - Two Michigan families are celebrating the Olympics with a massive sled track that they built into a backyard hill. WILX-TV reports the Baker and Hines families came up with the idea for a luge track in Mason, located southeast of Lansing. The course is about 200 feet long and includes a tunnel and a rendering of the Olympic rings. Doug Hines says they used two tractors with front-end loaders to create the course. He says it took about three days to build and a few hours to cover...
ANN ARBOR (AP) - University of Michigan students plan to hold an all-night protest starting Tuesday over what they call low minority enrollment and inclusion on campus as school officials move forward with plans to boost racial diversity and increase black enrollment. The 12-hour "Speak Out" at the school's Ann Arbor campus is scheduled to run through Wednesday morning. It's being hosted by the United Coalition for Racial Justice, a group comprised of undergraduate and graduate students,...
