Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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MERCER, Wis. - The Mercer Lioness Club sponsored their 10th annual Craft Bazaar and Luncheon on Saturday, despite poor weather. Baked goods, lunch items, and a wide variety of items were available, from jewelry, to knit goods, to sewn items. Wakefield American Legion Women's Auxiliary also held their 20th annual Craft fair on Saturday, to benefit the Wakefield Veteran's of Foreign Wars, Post 9084. Wooden items, knit goods, gourmet dips, pickles, framed photography, sewn and woven items were...
IRONWOOD — A link to the city of Ironwood’s website has been added on the comprehensive plan revision. The new city plan will guide the community for the next decade, as city officials continue to respond to demographic shifts and build on recent successes. The plan will establish a vision for the future and outline how that vision will be achieved, the site notes. The revision kicked off earlier this month with a workshop before a planning commission meeting. Brad Scheib, of the Hoisington Koegler Group Inc., of Minneapolis, a consultant pla...
TRAVERSE CITY (AP) - Five months after divers searched a remote section of Lake Michigan for a mysterious 17th century ship and retrieved a wooden slab the group leader believes is part of the vessel, it's still uncertain whether they are on the right track. The object of the weeklong mission in June was the Griffin, built by the legendary French explorer La Salle, which disappeared in 1679 with its six-member crew, becoming the oldest known shipwreck in the upper Great Lakes. The dive team dug...
IRONWOOD - The city of Ironwood and Downtown Art Place have been selected to host an exhibit through the Smithsonian Museum in 2015. Mara MacKay, project coordinator, received word Friday that Ironwood had been selected. The exhibit, called "The Way We Worked," will be in the city for roughly two months. To be considered as a host site for the exhibit, the city hosted a tour for a representative from the Michigan Humanities Council. Ironwood was in the running with another Upper Peninsula city,...
DALLAS (AP) - A half-century after rifle bullets cut through a presidential motorcade, the city that has long struggled with its own wounds from the Kennedy assassination paused Friday to honor the fallen leader, remembering a young, handsome president with whom Dallas will always be "linked in tragedy." On the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's death, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings presided over a solemn ceremony at the exact time and place where the president was gunned down in an open-top...
NEW DELHI (AP) - The world of chess has a new king, and it's a 22-year-old who is as much at home posing for fashion shoots as he is pushing pawns. Magnus Carlsen of Norway won the chess world championship Friday, becoming the first Western player since Bobby Fischer to hold the title. Carlsen, a former child prodigy who has already been on a list of the world's sexiest men and has moonlighted as a model, defeated defending champion Viswanathan Anand of India in a title match that was the game's...
Nov. 22, 1963, was a momentous day in American history. The 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas that afternoon. A nation in mourning was riveted by reports of the events over the next few days, including the killing of his assassin and a state funeral. Now, 50 years later, many still recall the moment they heard the news. Below are a sampling of recollections of that day. "I think I was in the seventh grade at J.E. Murphy. I believe Mr. (William) Zell...
BESSEMER - Two A.D. Johnston High School band students had great news this past week; out of 2,600 auditioning students, they earned spots to perform together in an 80-student Michigan all-state ensemble at the Michigan Music Conference in Grand Rapids in January, Steve Boniface, band instructor, said. The conference is for music teachers and professionals, Boniface said, with the student performance as the week's grand finale. Boniface has taught Megan for three years and Madeline for two....
HURLEY - The Iron County Mining Impact Committee listened to a presentation by Larry Lynch of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources during a meeting Thursday. Lynch, a hydrogeologist for the DNR, spoke to the committee about the bulk sampling process and the timeline related to the mining application for a proposed iron mine near Upson, Wis. With the bulk sampling, the DNR submitted a letter to Gogebic Taconite on Aug. 13, saying a storm water permit is required for bulk sampling plans...
IRONWOOD - Two local competitive dancers are traveling to Orlando to dance at half-time as part of 300 performers doing a jazz pom routine for the Capital One Bowl on New Year's Day. Cheyanne O'Brien, a 2013 Gogebic Community College graduate from Wakefield, won the honor in March in an individual competition in Duluth, Minn., at "Spring Fling." Dani Begalle, a senior at Luther L. Wright High School, won the honor by submitting a video audition. O'Brien has studied dance for 16 years, and...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP- Merit Network Inc. and community partners in Gogebic County commemorated the completion and lighting of the fiber optic network's segment between Watersmeet and Ironwood on Tuesday. In 2010, Merit received two federal stimulus awards for the Rural, Education, Anchor, Community and Health Care-Michigan Middle Mile Collaborative to create more than 2,200 miles of open access advanced fiber optic infrastructure in rural and underserved areas in Michigan. This has been...
HURLEY - A Weston, Wis., woman Tuesday was bound over for trial on robbery and theft charges in connection with a June 11 protest at the Gogebic-Taconite mine site near Upson. Katie (Krow) Kloth, 26, was ordered to stand trial by Iron County Judge Patrick Madden after one witness testified at the preliminary examination. About 20 people attended the hearing, including both G-Tac officials and Kloth supporters. Stacy Saari, a G-Tac employee, described Kloth as the "lead protester" at the site...
PORT HURON (AP) - Gina McKillop and Brittney Palmer are going to have a big shipment to send out at the end of the month. McKillop and Palmer, who are mother and daughter, are sending 200 packages to the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 2nd Marine Division in Afghanistan, according to the Times Herald of Port Huron. "I feel there are a lot of kids that don't have the support we have," said McKillop, of Marysville. "I feel they definitely need to know we appreciate what they're doing and definitely th...
IRONWOOD - The Friends of Miners Memorial Heritage Park will sponsor a fundraiser performance by Bill Jamerson Friday at 7 p.m. at Theatre North in Ironwood. Jamerson will perform his show "Up in the U.P.!" featuring tales and tunes about Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Story and original song topics include iron miners, early immigrants, ski jumpers, pasties, thimbleberries and Finnish people. "Many of Jamerson's stories are based on actual interviews with iron miners and other longtime residents...
