Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD - As part of the High 5 Mentoring program, juniors from Luther L. Wright high school assisted kindergarteners in building gingerbread houses Wednesday morning at Sleight school. Before their mentors arrived, the students of Michelle Trier's kindergarten class sat at tables with pre-prepared gingerbread houses, or graham crackers glued to large milk cartons with marshmallow crème. The kids were given various treats to decorate their houses, including marshmallows, peppermints and...
IRONWOOD - High school girls learned more about "non-traditional" career options during career day at Gogebic Community College, Tuesday. Sophomores and juniors from Bessemer, Ironwood and Wakefield-Marenisco signed up to learn more about career options in automotive and computer programming/robotics. Students joined the high school vocational classes offered at GCC through the Gogebic Ontonagon Intermediate School District. According to Paulette Niemi, transition coordinator for the GOISD,...
MARQUETTE - After presenting the Catholic Diocese of Marquette with its 10th bishop 35 years ago, the Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., has again been called on to provide one of its priests to lead the more than 50,000 Catholics in the Upper Peninsula. Pope Francis has appointed the Rev. John F. Doerfler, who is vicar general of the Diocese of Green Bay, as the 13th bishop of the Diocese of Marquette. The late Bishop Mark Schmitt was the auxiliary bishop of Green Bay when he was appointed bishop of...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Year-end legislation to ease Congress' chronic budget brinkmanship and soften across-the-board spending cuts moved to the cusp of final passage Tuesday, a rare display of Senate bipartisanship that masked strong complaints about slicing into military retirement benefits. The measure is expected to clear the Senate and go to President Barack Obama for his signature on Wednesday, marking a modest accomplishment at the end of a year punctuated by a partial government shutdown, a...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The numbers have been drawn for the $636 million Mega Millions jackpot. The winning numbers on Tuesday night were: 8, 14, 17, 20, 39; Mega Ball: 7. It's the second-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history. The Mega Millions jackpot has been growing for weeks because of a game revamp that dramatically lowered the odds of winning the top prize to about 1 in 259 million. It used to be about 1 in 176 million, nearly the same odds of winning a Powerball jackpot. It was unknown...
HURLEY - A 53-year-old former Oma, Wis,, man was freed from a 42-year prison sentence Monday in Iron County Court. Donald Miller, who had been sentenced on a first-degree sexual assault with a dangerous weapon count in 1998, had that charge amended to a third-degree sexual assault charge, which carries a nine-year sentence. Since Miller has served 5,913 days in prison and jail, or more than 16 years, that exceeds the nine-year sentence and he'll be released for time served. In 1997, an Iron...
HURLEY - Students in Melanie Erspamer's third grade class mixed and mingled with some furry friends at the Hurley K-12 School Monday. Students decided against exchanging Christmas gifts with each other, and instead opted for bringing in gifts to a local charity. "They were given the option of exchanging amongst themselves, or donating to a local cause or charity," Erspamer said. "They voted among HOPE Animal Shelter, DOVE or the (Iron County) Food Pantry, and they voted for HOPE." Shelter...
BESSEMER - Kismet was in evidence at Monday night's Bessemer City Council meeting, as it began with a presentation by the Gogebic Iron Area Narcotics Team members from the Gogebic County Sheriff's Department, and ended with vehement public opposition to the newly approved medical marijuana nursery and transfer point in Bessemer's industrial zone. (Editor's note: See separate story on GIANT presentation on page 5.) The council approved a special land use permit for the business, operated by Richa...
WAKEFIELD - The Wakefield-Marenisco School Board discussed the proposed consolidation of the Bessemer and Wakefield-Marenisco school districts at its meeting Monday. A group of citizens has proposed a consolidation and is collecting signatures to put the issue on a ballot. Superintendent Cathy Shamion said the group has until mid-January to collect enough signatures for the vote to occur in May 2014. If approved, consolidation will occur in July 2014, giving both schools about six weeks in the i...
BESSEMER - More than a dozen children spent Saturday morning making tasty creations during a gingerbread program through the Bessemer Public Library. Kids received all the parts to put together delicious gingerbread houses and listened to a Christmas story or two. Librarian Melissa Rajala said this was the second year the library has put the program on. "This is something the kids talk about all year long," Rajala said. "It was a lot of fun last year." Being a small community, Rajala said...
IRONWOOD – Local youth and adults participated in the annual Christmas musical at Zion Lutheran Church part of the Christ Lutheran Parish in Ironwood. Actors performed the show "Arrest These Merry Gentlemen," telling a different side to the story of the birth of Jesus Christ. The story followed two peacekeepers in the town of Bethlehem trying to follow leads about something "big" happening in the town. The peacekeepers tried to find the merry-making shepherds set to arrive in town for the b...
BESSEMER - Twenty-five people braved sub-zero temperatures to carol on an old-fashioned hayride as part of Bessemer's community Christmas party, departing from the VFW Sunday afternoon. Mayor Butch Semmerling donated the trailers and hay for the rides, and Neal Nelson and Larry Miskovich volunteered to drive. After the hayride, Santa and Mrs. Claus were inside the VFW for children to visit with, and enjoy Christmas tales. Event volunteer Donna Frello said cocoa, cookies, and other goodies were...
ONTONAGON - It was standing room only at the annual Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital Foundation Christmas Show Friday. The show opened with a new set with sliding doors opening to a Christmas set and Jim Jessup and Mike Urbis in white and black tuxedos singing the show's theme "Winter Wonderland." The usual comedic banter and songs between Jessup and Urbis alternated with the beautiful voices and Christmas music from Jennifer Weaver and daughters Veronica and Genevieve, Jim Brogan, Dave Kalivoda and Y...
BESSEMER - An Ironwood man was found guilty of three felonies in Gogebic County Circuit Court Friday for operating a methamphetamine laboratory that burned along with a house in Ironwood on New Year's Eve 2012. Justin Farrsiar, 35, was found guilty by a jury of one count of operating or maintaining a meth lab and two counts of operating the lab near prohibited places, including a school and church. The duplex that burned was located near Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church and All Saints Catholic...
HURLEY - Faculty and staff at the Hurley K-12 School got into the holiday spirit Friday with a friendly competition using decorated doors. Doors in the elementary, middle and high school hallways have been decorated by teachers, staff and students to celebrate the Christmas season. Decorations included wrapping paper, construction paper, bows, ribbons, ornaments and lights. Some grades used themes from movies, showing off characters like the Grinch, Snoopy and Woodstock, Jack Skellington from...
HURLEY - The Thursday fire that destroyed Wishbones restaurant on Hurley's Silver Street is under investigation by the state fire marshal. The Hurley Fire Department battled the fire for seven hours in frigid temperatures, with a strong wind from the west blowing thick, black smoke toward Ironwood. The structure was a total loss, according to the fire department. The call came in around 4:51 p.m. of smoke and flames in the second story of the restaurant owned by Charles (Chatsie) and Mimi...
MARENISCO — Camp Ojibway and HOPE Animal Shelter are moving full speed ahead with a plan for prisoners to train dogs. Warden Linda Tribley said the first dog, Anna, will arrive next week. Camp Ojibway, near Marenisco, will house three dogs which will be trained and socialized by six inmates to prepare them for “forever” homes. It took more than a year of work to get the project off the ground, Tribley said. Ojibway prisoners have paid for a lot of the necessary supplies for the dogs, Tribley said. A total of 200 prisoners applied to assist with...
MARENISCO - A long wait paid off for a Marenisco hunter in Michigan's elk hunt. Lucia Pairolero and her husband-guide, Frank, applied for Michigan permits to hunt elk for 20 years before Lucia drew one this year. The big day came for her last Saturday in the Gaylord area of the lower peninsula. On opening morning of the hunt, about a half hour into the season, Lucia bagged a six-by-seven (horns) bull elk that dressed out at 665 pounds in the Atlanta area. The live weight was estimated at 750...
HURLEY - A spectacular 4:50 p.m. Thursday blaze destroyed a Hurley Silver Street supper club and resulted in heavy smoke that could be smelled as far away as the Kmart store off U.S. 2 in Ironwood. Hurley firefighters battled the thick, black smoke at Wishbones restaurant that caused the closure of traffic on Silver Street. Winds from the west blew the smoke right down the main street toward Ironwood and affected businesses on both sides of Hurley's main street. "It's like a mushroom cloud,"...
The holidays are a great time to pull out the old photos and reminisce, but there's no need to huddle around a dusty album. There are a variety of ways to get them out in the open by making them part of your holiday decorations. And once you've gone through the trouble of scanning and reprinting originals, it's easy to make duplicates that can be turned into to gifts for family members. Make a bold, modern statement by printing 4-inch-square photos, connecting them with small plastic clips in a...
FRUITLAND TOWNSHIP (AP) - Cold, snowy weather continuing to grip Michigan is being blamed for a 40-vehicle pileup on a western Michigan expressway, injuring a sheriff's deputy. The Muskegon County sheriff's department said the chain-reaction crash happened Thursday morning on U.S. 31 in Fruitland Township, north of Detroit. MLive.com says a deputy who sustained minor injuries was the only person reported hurt. Weather-related crashes killed two people Tuesday. The National Weather Service said...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Battle-fatigued and suddenly bipartisan, the House voted Thursday night to ease across-the-board federal spending cuts and prevent future government shutdowns, acting after Speaker John Boehner unleashed a stinging attack on tea party-aligned conservative groups campaigning for the measure's defeat. The legislation, backed by the White House, cleared on a vote of 332-94, with lopsided majorities of Republicans and Democrats alike voting in favor. Final passage is expected next...
