Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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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... Full story
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,... Full story
IRONWOOD - Local high school students are preparing for their first performance through the Ironwood Carnegie Library's drama club. The students will perform "Rumbo," a parody of action heroes, celebrity, beauty pageants and popular culture. According to show director Mary Hansen, it is the first time students from different school districts are participating in the same drama club. "Schools have had their own clubs in the past, but there has never been a collaborative effort like this before,"... Full story
NOVI (AP) - They came from all walks of life - Girl Scouts troops, National Guard units, financial planning offices, Zumba classes - to spend three days packing food for thousands of hungry children they'll never meet. The 2 Million Meals effort, the brainchild of a Detroit-area pastor, concluded Sunday. The results: 8,810 volunteers put together 2,029,536 meals to be shipped to El Salvador, Haiti and the Philippines. The mixtures of rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and 21 vitamins and minerals... Full story
TRAVERSE CITY (AP) - Maddie disappears into a snowy cloud. Poof. Dog gone. Her eager head bobs up a second later, rising and sinking like the Loch Ness Monster, trailing a wake of broken snow. The border collie is panting in minutes. Doesn't take long to get the heart pounding in snow like this, said Kevin Deyo, Maddie's owner. Deyo, 55, runs with her four times a week, out the back door and into crotch-deep snow and rolling hills at Twin Lakes Park in Grand Traverse County. Maddie's paws are... Full story
WAKEFIELD - The fifth annual Wakefield Volunteer Fire Department Ice Fishing Contest was held at Sunday Lake and the Wakefield V.F.W. on Saturday during Michigan's Free Fishing Weekend. The contest brought out 661 ice fishermen, including 459 adults and 202 children. Each one went home with a door prize. "The ice fishing contest has been going on for 30, 40 years and the Fire Department took it over from the V.F.W. five years ago," ice fishing contest volunteer, Mike Yon, said. "The Ice Fishing... Full story
CORNUCOPIA, Wis. - The sea caves along the south shore of Lake Superior near Cornucopia continue to draw thousands of spectators daily, according to Apostle Island National Lakeshore officials. Officials said the site near Meyer Beach on Wisconsin 13 between Bayfield and Cornucopia set a record Saturday of 11,000 visitors. They estimate a total of 54,000 people have visited the sea caves so far this winter. No Sunday numbers were available at press time. According to the AINL website, there... Full story
SUNBURY, Pa. (AP) - A Pennsylvania woman charged with her newlywed husband with killing a man they met through Craigslist admitted to the slaying in a jailhouse interview with a newspaper and said she has killed more than 20 other people across the country, claims police said they are investigating. In an interview with The Daily Item in Sunbury, 19-year-old Miranda Barbour said she wants to plead guilty to killing Troy LaFerrara in November. She also said in the interview she has killed at... Full story
BESSEMER - Faculty and staff in the Bessemer School District participated in a mock shooting drill Friday during an in-service day. The drill was held at A.D. Johnston School, performed by Bob Berbohm, emergency management director for Delta and Schoolcraft counties. Gogebic County Emergency Management Director Jim Loeper also attended. All staff members were informed of the drill and participated in various scenarios, involving a shooter in the hallway while teachers were inside classrooms,... Full story
CHEBOYGAN (AP) — From the bridge of the Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw, northern Lake Huron looks like a vast, snow-covered field dotted with ice slabs as big as boulders — a battleground for the icebreaker’s 58-member crew during one of the roughest winters in memory. It’s been so bitterly cold for so long in the Upper Midwest that the Great Lakes are almost completely covered with ice. The last time they came this close was in 1994, when 94 percent of the lakes’ surface was frozen. As of Friday, ice cover extended across 88 percent, according... Full story
BESSEMER - After more than 40 years of seeking a solution to keeping the Oman's Creek boat landing from frequently washing shut, it appears some action is on the horizon. It might not be the near horizon, but the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners learned Wednesday that the Department of Natural Resources at least has the Lake Superior site on its radar. Eric Cadeau, a planner with the MDNR, said a long-term plan alternative is to construct a 120- to 160-foot long groin into Lake Superior... Full story
HURLEY - The Iron County Finance Committee heard a presentation from CenturyLink Thursday regarding the county possibly upgrading to enhanced 911 services. According Iron County Emergency Management director Stacy Ofstad, Iron County is the only county in Wisconsin without enhanced 911 services. Enhanced services allow the dispatchers to gain more information from a phone call, versus asking questions of the person who has called. Using technology like pictometry and GPS, the moment a phone... Full story
WAKEFIELD - All it took was the click of a mouse for Ryan Johnson to meet the love of his life. He and wife Trisha's story of falling in love was selected as the winner of the Daily Globe's 2014 "How I Met My Valentine" contest. In July 2006, Ryan came home from work with intentions of deleting his online dating profile. He said for months he saw the same people, nobody new, and he was tired of meeting people in bars. However, just before he was going to delete his profile, he had a message... Full story
HURLEY - Gogebic Taconite continues to drill for core samples, as well as beginning the bulk sampling process, at the proposed iron ore mine site near Upson, Wis. On Thursday, crews continued to drill, with a goal of 15 holes in total. Ten holes are in Iron County, and five are in Ashland County. The process is similar to the rounds of drilling done last summer, but there are more holes this time. According to Bob Seitz, G-Tac spokesman, the company is using two drilling rigs in different... Full story
CAIRO (AP) - Spanish archeologists have unearthed a 3,600-year-old mummy in the ancient city of Luxor, Egypt's Antiquities Minister said Thursday. Prosecutors accused nine people including three Germans of smuggling stone samples from pyramids. In a statement, Mohammed Ibrahim said the rare find in a preserved wooden sarcophagus dates back to 1600 BC, when the Pharaonic 17th Dynasty reigned. He said the mummy appears to belong to a high official. The sarcophagus is engraved with hieroglyphs and... Full story
Pile it up and they will come. In a brutally cold winter, Lake Superior's ice formations continue to attract thousands of tourists and local residents, from Bayfield to Little Girl's Point. An estimated 4,000 people have been walking along the Lake Superior ice to the sea caves near Bayfield every weekend. Likewise, hundreds of people have been carefully edging out on the blue ice at Little Girl's Point on a typical weekend day. Hurley Area Chamber of Commerce director Dorrene O'Donnell told... Full story
By ALISON LADMAN Associated Press A box of chocolates? A slice of chocolate cake? So very been-there-done-that. This Valentine's Day, up the ante with your expression of love via chocolate. Rather than simply end the meal with a sweet hit of cocoa, why not use it as the inspiration for the entire menu? Start with slices of soft goat cheese sprinkled with a blend of unsweetened cocoa powder and chili powder, then topped with a Peppadew pepper. Then move on to our flank steak rubbed with ground... Full story
