Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HURLEY – The community has been invited by the Hurley School District to see their new maple syrup operation in action in the school parking lot from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. “This will be a ‘soft’ open house where you can observe students boiling sap, filtering, and bottling maple syrup in their new sap shack. There may be syrup available for purchase,” a release from the school says. The students who will be making the maple syrup are high schoolers in the Northwoods Manufactu...
Today is Election Day in Wisconsin and Iron County residents will elect members to the Iron County Board of Supervisors, as well as the Hurley City Council, Montreal City Council, Mercer Town Board, and Hurley and Mercer school boards. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The only contests for the Iron County Board Supervisors are in Districts 6 and 12. In District 12, incumbent Opal Roberts is challenged by Hank Joustra, both of Mercer. No one filed paperwork for the District 6 position before the deadline in January, so that seat will go to...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] IRONWOOD - Sexual assault awareness was the focus of a presentation by Downtown Art Place artists Katie Rose and Tracy Truesdell as part of Ironwood's First Friday at the Incredible Bank Friday evening. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The people who came helped create journals to be given to the local Domestic Violence Escape shelter. Some inscribed them with messages of hope. Rose and Truesdell guided others in decorating the journal covers...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] BESSEMER - Students at Washington Elementary School in Bessemer excitedly bought books throughout the week at the first book fair the school has held in years, according to school principal Mark Switzer. "I think it is really good," Switzer said. "We haven't had a book fair in years. So we are kind of arcing towards a little normalcy." Switzer said that the book fair was extremely well attended and "incredibly busy." He said the kids seemed to really...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HOUGHTON — Low COVID-19 community levels continued in Baraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Keweenaw and Ontonagon counties, according to an update from the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department on Thursday. In all, just 44 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the five counties in the seven days since March 23, including four in Baraga County, five in Gogebic, 28 in Houghton, four in Keweenaw and three in Ontonagon. There were, however, two deaths – one in Gogebic and one in Houghton. The county with the hig...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HURLEY - The Iron County Board of Supervisors considered the purchase of two floor scrubbers for the forestry and parks department/highway commission building and the Iron County Courthouse and a remodel and upgrade of the courtroom on the second floor of the courthouse at their regular meeting on Tuesday. At the Iron County Finance Committee meeting on March 10, Board of Supervisors Chair Joseph Pinardi said that building custodian, Melinda Nasi,...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] IRONWOOD — Dennis Svoke, Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) program instructor at Gogebic Community College presented a program review to the college board of trustees during its regular meeting on Tuesday night. The MET program is designed for students who wish to design and manufacture products in accordance with industry standards, he said. Within their first year of study, students earn a Certificate in Manufacturing Technology. After completing the second year of the program, they earn an a...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] BESSEMER - Students filed into the A.D. Johnston High School Library on Tuesday to fill knapsacks for their comrades in need of food during break through the Gogebic County Eat Smart Knapsack Program. The program was established six years ago as a way of providing food for children who depend on school meals for their daily nutritional needs. "It's a huge collaborative effort," said Crystal Suzik of the Gogebic County Great Start Collaborative. The...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield City Council passed an animal ordinance amendment during its regular council meeting on Monday night. The ordinance is the result of city staff and law enforcement receiving several dog complaints through 2021. The complaints included issues with dogs running at large, excessive barking, dog feces and a dog attack that resulted in the death of another dog. The issues were reviewed at length by the city planning commission, which reviewed the current animal ordinance, and t...
By MEGAN HUGHES [email protected] BESSEMER — The Bessemer Area School Board met for its monthly meeting on Monday evening. Superintendent Dan Niemi announced that senior graduation has been set for the Friday before Memorial Day, May 27, and is planned to be held at 7:30 p.m. Niemi said the seniors conducted a poll among themselves asking if they would prefer an indoor or outdoor graduation. The result, he explained, revealed the students would prefer to do an indoor graduation, so they wouldn’t need to worry about weather. The board als...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD - Members of the Ironwood City Commission had the opportunity to set the goals that the city will focus on for the next two years at a work session prior to their regular meeting on Monday. City Treasurer and Financial Director Paul Linn said this work session marked the beginning of a very important part of the city's budget review process. He said that the goals that the city commission chooses to adopt in these sessions will be reflected...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Downtown Ironwood Development Authority members discussed and considered their 2022-2023 budget at their regular meeting on Thursday. City Treasurer and Finance Director Paul Linn said the largest revenue source for the DIDA is the millage in downtown Ironwood. According to Linn’s projections, there will be a slight increase in taxable values of these properties. He said this will mean an increase in revenue from taxes, which, although not a particularly significant amount of mon...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] UPSON, Wis. - Whitecap Mountains Resort boasted a totally different vibe Saturday, starting with a friendly village of trailers, snowmobiles and their riders sprawled throughout the first parking lot. Camaraderie was everywhere as the adjacent base of the ski hill provided space for spectators, who sipped hot beverages in a zero-ish wind chill while chatting with companions and studying - not the normal skiers and snowboarders - but multiple rounds of...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] LANSING - Copper Peak's future received a $20 million shot in the arm Thursday when the Michigan State House passed State Senate Bill 565. State officials and local organizers say the funds will be used for the restoration and development of Copper Peak in Ironwood Township with the aim of creating a world-class facility that will attract a series of international ski competitions year-round and provide sports-related tourism to the region. Senate...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] EWEN — Around 60 Panther fans who were unable to make it to East Lansing for Ewen-Trout Creek’s boys basketball team’s state semifinal game on Thursday evening gathered at the school auditorium to watch their team play on the big screen. “We could get this at home on the computer and hook it up to the TV, but this is so much better,” said Pat Talsma. “This is life-size, practically.” She recalled her experience taking a group of kids down to Lansing to watch the team play in the 1982 championship....
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] BESSEMER — Gogebic County Sheriff Ross Solberg introduced a new road officer, Deputy Ryan Zawodny, to the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners at their regular meeting on Wednesday. Zawodny said he was originally from the Lower Peninsula and previously worked at the Ironwood Public Safety Department before starting to work at the Gogebic County Sheriff’s Office on March 13. “I’m not a native Yooper but hope to stay here for a long time. I went to Northern Michigan University, originally for biology...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] Heavy wet snow overnight Wednesday into Thursday caused power outages in northern Wisconsin, including the area around Mercer, Manitowish Waters and Presque Isle, according to a power company official. Chris Ouellette, a spokesperson for Xcel Engery, said they company had recorded 2,000 customers without power on Thursday morning. “The outages started Wednesday evening with the storm that brought heavy, wet snow to the region,” she said. “It broug...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] With the bipartisan infrastructure law delivering $65 billion to improve broadband access, Iron County, Wisconsin is in a prime position to capture funds to upgrade to high-speed internet, according to Iron County Development Zone Coordinator Kelly Klein. But to qualify for additional state and federal grants for underserved areas, the county needs data to show that homes and businesses have little broadband access or internet speeds that fall below federal standards, said Klein. To that end, the...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Awkward Stage Drama Club returned to the stage Tuesday night, after a nearly two-year intermission, for the first of three performances of "Cafe Murder" at the Golden Dragon Restaurant in Ironwood. The light-hearted dinner theatre murder mystery comedy tells the story of Rosemary St. John, an annoying girl with a water allergy who is murdered during her birthday party at a restaurant. Through the comedic play, the actors interacted with t...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — Ironwood Area Schools Superintendent Travis Powell said that the COVID-19 case count in Gogebic County is very low and the state of Michigan is starting to relax their restrictions at the school’s board of education meeting on Monday. Last month, the state of Michigan announced that masks are no longer required on school buses and more recently, they said that they do not have to continue publicly displaying COVID-19 cases at the school. As a result, Powell said that Ironwood Area Sch...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] IRONWOOD - Black River Harbor docking permits will be issued via a lottery system this year, according to an announcement from the Ottawa National Forest Service. The Harbor offers one of the area's few access points to Lake Superior. According to Lisa Klaus, public and administrative affairs officer for the U.S. Forest Service, the demand for the permits has been ever increasing over the years. Klaus said the forest service continuously recieves more...
In the aftermath of warm weather and temperatures above 50 degrees this past weekend, the Iron County Snowmobile and ATV/UTV Trails were closed for the winter season at 8 a.m. on Monday. The Iron County Forestry and Parks Department can legally keep the trails open until March 31, but they closed the trails 10 days early this year because of the warm weather and rain, Office Manager and Trail Coordinator Tara Krall said to the Daily Globe on Monday. When the rest of the snow melts and the ice...
BESSEMER - The A.D. Johnson Junior-Senior High School in Bessemer was flooded with the sound of music on Saturday morning, as roughly 50 students competed in the District Solo and Ensemble Festival. The students, who represented both the Bessemer Area School District and the Ironwood Area School District performed various solo and ensemble pieces for both band and choir. The students performed one or two selections and then received feedback from Dale Smith, of the Wisconsin School Music...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HANCOCK — The cumulative COVID-19 case rate for Baraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Keweenaw and Ontonagon counties has dropped for the fourth week in a row, according to an update from the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department on Friday. The COVID-19 case rate per 100,000 population is 276.2 in Baraga County, 208.5 in Gogebic, 150 in Houghton, 182 in Keweenaw and 206.4 in Ontonagon, for a total of 185.2 cases per 100,000 population in the western U.P. As of last week, the cumulative case rate for the f...
