Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD - Ironwood's bag men and ladies hit the streets on a sun-filled Saturday morning. They collected any garbage they could find during the annual Make a Difference Day. "We have a small, but dedicated crew out here today," said city manager Scott Erickson, as he handed out garbage bags and gloves to the volunteers from the Depot. A slight breeze held off the booming mosquito population. Jean Basom and Becky Schwartz headed down Lowell Street at a fast pace, kicking off their effort around...
ONTONAGON - Six teams competed for Barbecue honors at the eighth annual Barbecue for Life Saturday in Ontonagon. The proceeds of the dinner are donated to the Ontonagon County Cancer Association. Tom Domitrovich, co-chairman, along with Griff Roehm, said he was pleased with the number of teams entered this year. He noted, however, that one of the original teams Fuzzy-P, was absent since their leader Tom Burgess ruptured his achilles tendon before the event. Teams participating included:...
BESSEMER - After a five-year process, the Bessemer Downtown Development Authority will formally dedicate the city's new Ethnic Commons Park and Trailhead on Wednesday. The Gogebic Range Concert Band will play "The Star Spangled Banner" while the A.D. Johnston Choir sing the lyrics. In addition to dedicating the new park, the event will also celebrate the 200th anniversary of "The Star Spangled Banner," written by Francis Scott Key. A 17-by-25-feet replica of the garrison flag from Fort McHenry...
IRONWOOD - Three locals gathered at the historical depot park Sunday afternoon to take part in a bike ride from Ironwood to Bessemer. The Gogebic Range bike ride was scheduled to begin at the park Sunday, but it was cancelled due to weather. Regardless, Sandy and Faith Pera, of Wakefield, began their ride at 1 p.m. Sunday, just as scheduled. "We're hoping to beat the rain," Sandy said. The Peras have been participating in this annual race for the past five years. Steve Lenzo also arrived...
BESSEMER - Twenty-four sophomore and junior girls visited Gogebic Community Colllege and Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District's building trades class project home in Bessemer on May 22 as the final field trip of the Women in Construction events sponsored by the GOISD's Career Tech Education program this school year. The girls spent the morning at the building trades project home located on Stone Road, learning about new residential home construction. GOISD building trades instructor...
IRONWOOD - Nearly 3 million online votes were cast and the local Youth Drama Club has been selected as one of 40 winners of $25,000 grants. The grant is through the State Farm Neighborhood Assist Grant program. From the end of April through the middle of May, people voted daily on Facebook on grant entries from around the country. The drama club is organized by the Ironwood Carnegie Library and Historic Ironwood Theatre. According to Bruce Greenhill, director of the theater, more than 4,000 gran...
BESSEMER - Emotions ran high at Friday's Gogebic County Community School alternative education graduation ceremony at the St. Sebastian School gymnasium in Bessemer. Not only were students choked up about graduating, but GCCS coordinator Lori Struwe broke up when she announced that Denise Schmitz-Enking, an educator for 34 years, including the past 22 with the Gogebic County program, is retiring. "This is a tough one for me," Struwe said. The 11 graduates presented a tearful Schmitz-Enking with...
WATERSMEET - Thirteen Nimrods walked across the stage and received their high school diplomas during Watersmeet Township School District's graduation ceremony on Friday. The school's gymnasium was full of graduates' friends and families there to witness commencement for the class of 2014. Hayley Garrison, class secretary, gave the valedictorian address and said not every high school student is lucky enough to know all of their classmates, but she was. After listing the fond memories she shared...
NEGAUNEE TOWNSHIP (AP) - On a recent sunny, unseasonably warm afternoon at the Yellow Dog River, just off of the Marquette County Road 510 bridge, more than a dozen people were in the water looking for bugs. Macroinvertebrae, to be exact. Having donned waders and separated into teams of three and four, and armed with 5-gallon buckets and sturdy nets, the crews spent half an hour in the water doing a "river dance," using their feet and the nets to stir up cobble and sand to get at where the...
HURLEY - Kindergarteners learned a different kind of alphabet Thursday at the Hurley K-12 School during a bike safety presentation by the Hurley Police Department. Students learned the "ABCs" of bike safety from Sgt. Chris Colassaco, who explained that each spring, bikes should be checked for three things - air in the tires, brakes and chain tightness. Eggs were used to show the importance of helmets while riding bikes. Colassaco taped an egg inside of a bike helmet, and dropped the helmet to...
IRONWOOD - The Ironwood Public Safety Department has placed a speed trailer along McLeod Avenue to help insure drivers respect the posted speed limit of 25 mph on the U.S. 2 detour route. Lt. Mike Rimkus of IPSD said officers are monitoring drivers' speeds along the route using both moving and stationary radar. "We're proactive, with our officers out in marked squads patrolling the detour frequently," he said. The IPSD has had some complaints of speeders along the route, but Rimkus said...
IRONWOOD - Gogebic Community College's Board of Trustees heard that a number of schools in the Copper Country are showing interest in its Early College program during an update at its meeting on Tuesday. Calumet School District is completing its first year of the program, with about 85 students participating at GCC's Copper Country Center. Stacy Crouch, director of off- campus operations at GCC, told board members that several other schools in the Copper Country, as well as Ironwood High...
IRONWOOD - Local residents are invited to an informational meeting regarding the proposed cultural tourism event History Prize tonight at Theater North. The meeting is from 7 to 8 p.m., featuring a discussion with History Prize founder Mara MacKay. MacKay will update attendees on the 2016 event. History Prize won the Jumpstart competition at the Pure Michigan Governor's Conference on Tourism in Traverse City in March. History Prize will feature historic reenactments, collections and fixed...
IRONWOOD - With construction along U.S. 2 diverting traffic on a detour through downtown, local emergency responders are coordinating with road construction crews and other agencies to insure response times aren't effected. Beacon Ambulance Service provides services to Gogebic and Iron counties, and parts of Ontonagon County. Drivers also provide transfers for Aspirus Grand View Hospital, which is located east of Beacon's Ironwood station on U.S. 2. Though construction has redirected eastbound...
HURLEY - Forty-one third graders from the Hurley K-12 School donned gloves, grabbed trowels and planted flowers along Silver Street in Hurley Wednesday. Joy Schelble, of the Iron County University of Wisconsin-Extension office, prepared students for the planting by speaking in classrooms. Schelble is the county's horticulturalist, and asked students why flowers are planted in the city each year. "The first student looked at me and said, 'To take care of the environment,'" Schelble said. "The nex...
MARQUETTE (AP) - The record-setting cold that gripped Michigan last winter continues to leave its mark, with ice floes showing up on the shore of Lake Superior over the warm Memorial Day holiday weekend. Some of the warmest temperatures of the year drew people to the beach in the Upper Peninsula, where they found abundant ice floating just off shore at Marquette. Pat Black is executive director of the Marquette County Convention and Visitors Bureau and says the ice has "become kind of a tourist...
MACKINAC ISLAND (AP) - Gov. Rick Snyder said Wednesday his most immediate legislative priority is making sure lawmakers approve state money to help resolve Detroit's bankruptcy case, but added he is hopeful that a recent bipartisan deal on raising the minimum wage bodes well for reaching another deal on road spending. The $195 million bankruptcy legislation, which won bipartisan approval in the Republican-led House last week, is up for consideration in the GOP-led Senate. The Republican...
IRONWOOD - City commissioners learned Tuesday that since Ironwood's U.S. 2 reconstruction project is now under way, city workers will tackle some water leaks along Cloverland Drive with the reduced traffic there. Bob Richards, of the department of public works, said work on two leaks will begin today and could be completed by Friday. Commissioner Dave Sim noted there's water along the highway from the leaks. Richards said there are four or five other leaks in the city that also must be...
HURLEY - Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and Reed Hall, secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Economic Development, stopped in Hurley Tuesday morning to discuss Iron County's struggling economy. Kleefisch and Hall started with a tour of Highline Corporation in Hurley and followed with a tour of Northwoods Manufacturing, a student-ran company in the Hurley K-12 School. Iron County's unemployment rate is the second worst in the state, at 13.3 percent, or twice the national average. After...
BESSEMER - The Bessemer Area School District's Board of Education went into closed session for about 45 minutes at its meeting Tuesday to discuss personnel issues. Board member Bill McDonald was arrested last week by Michigan State Police on three counts of misdemeanor warrants for aiding and abetting in the fraudulent signing of voter petitions that were circulated regarding consolidating the school with nearby Wakefield-Marenisco. Following the closed session, board member Dave Osier read a...
IRONWOOD - The Luther L. Wright High School class of 2014 was urged to work hard to overcome life's obstacles and remember and be proud of their roots during the school's 124th commencement Sunday in Ironwood. "No matter how many times you get knocked down, a little voice inside should be saying, 'You're not done,'" social studies and U.S. history teacher Ted Sim said in his commencement address to the 53 graduates. "When life gives you sour milk, make a chocolate cake." Sim advised the seniors...
