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Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HURLEY — After a brief discussion between board members, the Iron County Board of Commissioners voted 8-2 to increase all county employees’ hourly rates by $1.25 at their regular meeting on Tuesday. When the motion was put to a roll call vote, chairman Joseph Pinardi and commissioners Scott Erickson, Patrick Hanson, Anne McComas, Opal Roberts, John Sendra, Brandon Snyder and William Thomas voted yes. Tanner Hiller and Jamey Francis voted no. Larry Youngs and Thomas Thompson abstained from the vot...
Due to press issues, the Daily Globe was unable to print The Iron County Miner for Sept. 1, 2022. It is available to view in pdf form along with Thursday's edition of the Daily Globe for free at yourdailyglobe.com....
HURLEY - Hurley's annual end of summer party - Festivale Italiano - is set for Saturday on Silver Street. Three blocks of Hurley's main street will be blocked off most of the day and into the evening allowing for all sorts of fun, food and entertainment, according to Hurley Chamber of Commerce officials. Several area restaurants and other concerns will be offering food outdoors - Italian food is the official fare of the day, but it certainly won't be limited to that. Beverages will be served as...
Due to press issues, the Daily Globe was unable to print Wednesday's edition, Aug. 31, 2022. It is available to view in pdf form for free at yourdailyglobe.com. The same press issue prevented the printing of this week's edition of the Wakefield News-Bessemer Pick and Axe. A pdf version of that Sept. 1 edition of the WNBPA can be viewed at the bottom of the Daily Globe's Aug. 31 edition....
By MEGAN HUGHES [email protected] BESSEMER — The Bessemer Area School’s Board of Education met Aug. 24 for its monthly meeting and settled some final changes to the staff for the new school year. The school board welcomed the following members to the staff: Sarah Carroll, first grade teacher; Ashley Oliver-Igl, high school English teacher; Brittany Bennetts, high school math teacher; Stephany Lewis, elementary school paraprofessional; and Jessica Leinon-Novascone, transition coach. The board also accepted a letter of retirement of tea...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission is holding a special meeting at 4 p.m. today to consider a resolution to purchase the property on 108 E. Arch St., the location of the former Sleight Elementary School. According to the resolution, city staff identified the parcel as a potential source of affordable housing. City staff recommend purchase of the property so a private developer can convert the property into rental units. The city recognizes the lack of affordable housing in the area as a s...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] SILVER CITY - The 16th annual Porcupine Mountains Music Festival returned in style this past weekend, with near-perfect weather helping to draw crowds that filled the slopes of the Porkies Ski Complex. For a steady schedule of main stage entertainers, a platform was constructed directly behind the ski chalet within the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, next to Lake Superior in Silver City. The crowd came loaded with a variety of hats and...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — As part of its mission to celebrate performing and visual arts and highlight local and international talent, Emberlight Festival featured more than 30 art shows, a film festival and other events over the last two months. The top submissions for these shows were highlighted at an award show in the Historic Ironwood Theatre on Saturday, the last night of the festival. The Range Art Association’s 67th annual art show was produced under the Emberlight Festival’s banner, so the winners were...
By P.J. Glisson [email protected] IRONWOOD-Sept. 1 is the start of a new year for Gogebic County 4-H, which makes the end of August an apt time to review success and lessons gained from the previous year. The Gogebic County Fair, which ran this year from Aug. 11-14, is the culmination of each year's activity, providing an opportunity for children and young people to display their talent, compete for honors, sell their livestock, and enjoy each other's company while having a lot of fun. At the...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — Director of Community Development Tom Bergman said that city staff will present a draft of the boundaries for the downtown development plan to the Downtown Ironwood Development Authority at the DIDA meeting on Thursday. Bergman explained that the DIDA intends to establish a tax increment financing district in the downtown area. He said that a TIF district would neither increase nor decrease taxes but would change how the city spends tax dollars. The DIDA will administer these funds. B...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] BESSEMER — Following a public hearing, the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners adopted guidelines for their Rehab Emergency Repair Program at their regular meeting on Wednesday. According to a packet provided at the meeting, this will allow a third party – the Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency – to administer loan repayments and recaptured funds from the Gogebic County Rehab Program on emergency home repairs. The program income for the 2021-2022 fiscal year was $37,958. GOCAA can use these...
by Veronica Cruz [email protected] HURLEY - The Hurley Dairy Queen owner, Moypa Khan, wanted to give something to the community, so he asked his friend from New Zealand to paint a mural depicting aspects of the region. Khan met the artist, Laken Whitecliffe, in college and said they've been friends for a long time. The mural is a Northwood scene, including wildlife and a man sitting at a campfire. It was painted this summer on a building Khan bought in May behind the restaurant. Khan...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Health Department is holding a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at their office on 210 5th Ave. in Hurley on Sept. 1. According to an announcement from the health department, anyone older than six months can walk in to receive the Moderna vaccine on this day without scheduling an appointment prior to their visit. However, the health department encourages people to visit at different times depending on their age. Vaccinations for 12-year-olds and above will be provided from 10 a...
by Veronica Cruz [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Gogebic Community College board of trustees met in special session Tuesday to act on a number of staffing appointments before the beginning of classes for the fall semester on Monday. The board approved Maryann DeCaire for the position of director of financial aid. DeCaire has a bachelor's degree in business from Barat College in Lake Forest, Illinois. She has more than 30 years experience in financial aid. Rozina Doss, who used to be a...
by Veronica Cruz [email protected] IRONWOOD - Lifelight Ministries returned to Ironwood Tuesday to offer a family friendly festival of Christian music, as well as illusionists, unicyclists and BMX stunt bicyclists, in Ironwood's Downtown City Square. Jill Seppala, festivals director for the South Dakota-based Lifelight Ministries, said the event was free and open to the public. Funding was provided by three local churches, including Cornerstone Church from Ramsay, St. Paul Lutheran in...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood City Commission adopted a resolution by Mayor Kim Corcoran that recognizes Sept. 4-10 as National Suicide Prevention Week at their regular meeting on Monday. “Suicide is the 10th leading cause of all deaths in the United States and the second leading cause for ages 15-24 and second leading cause of death for college students. Whereas Michigan lost over 1,444 lives last year to suicide, Gogebic County has the 12th highest per capita rate of Michigan’s 83 counties,” Corcora...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — Michigan residents can properly dispose of some of their electronics for free in a waste collection event in Ironwood on Wednesday. The collection will take place at the Gogebic Range Solid Waste Transfer Station on E5917 U.S. 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Items that will be accepted free of charge include: CPUs, tablets, fax machines, cell phones, routers, copy machines, scanners, radios, telephones, stereos, video game systems, and DVD, VCR and CD players. Other electronics, including c...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] BESSEMER - Music resounded from Bluff Valley Park in Bessemer throughout the day on Saturday as folks gathered for Marty's Goldenaires annual Town Picnic, with live music from the drum and bugle corps and other local musicians under the park pavilion. The picnic was a celebration of Marty's 72nd anniversary. The corps was first established by senior members of American Legion Post 27 in Bessemer in 1950 but has since expanded to include members as...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD - To help students get prepared for the first day of the coming school year, which is scheduled for Tuesday, Ironwood Area Schools held a Back to School fair at Luther L. Wright K-12 School on Thursday. Outside the school, Superintendent Travis Powell was grilling hamburgers and hot dogs and serving them to students and their families while welcoming them back for another year of school. Students were able to visit their classroom and meet the...
HOUGHTON — Gogebic Community College forestry instructor Bill Perkis was inducted into Michigan Technological University’s College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science Honor Academy on Aug. 5. The ceremony was held in the atrium of the Noblet Forestry and Wood Products Building on the MTU campus during the alumni reunion. Many of his fellow Huskies were on hand to help celebrate this occasion, according to a press release from GCC. The College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science Honor Academy was established in 1995, and inc...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] IRONWOOD - A fine, lingering drizzle last Saturday threatened the second day of harness racing, but turned out to make it better than ever at the Gogebic County Fair. "The track was really in excellent shape," said Marvin Kauppi, director of harness racing, after races ended. "After the rain, I thought it would be a little greasy." Instead, he said the moisture actually helped the surface, and although the track was dragged after each race, no watering...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] IRONWOOD — One of the most striking sights at the Gogebic County Fair was Kenneth Walker of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He was the bugler at Friday’s and Saturday’s harness racing events, providing a brief call to post before each race and also singing the national anthem at the start of each day’s races. Walker said he aims at a Kentucky Derby look and was dressed to the nines: white pants, a red vest and jacket and a black bowler hat and boots. The final touch was a patriotic flag tie. Walker, who is also in...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] ONTONAGON TOWNSHIP - It's that time of year when folks from near and far flock to campsites to bask in warm, fresh air and all the joys of the good life. Ontonagon Township Park is no exception, with people enjoying the site in various locations on July 30. By mid-morning, numerous folks were strolling the path along Lake Superior. Kids were active on the playground and adjacent beach, and campers were stirring with pleasant outdoor chores. Gene Fiszer of...
ONTONAGON — Lisa Johnson, the new Ontonagon Area School District’s superintendent, attended her first Board of Education regular meeting on Monday. A major item on the long agenda was board approval of a resolution for a bond proposal on the November ballot to raise money to purchase four new school buses. The new millage of .7 mills for five years, will replace an expiring .7 mills, explained Johnson. The plan is to purchase four new buses over three years, replacing an aging fleet of buses. Many items on the board agenda related to the ope...
