Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Downtown Ironwood Development Authority held an initial meeting on Thursday with the Grand Rapids-based firm McKenna for the preparation of a downtown development plan and the re-establishment of a tax increment financing district for downtown. When he asked the Ironwood City Commission to authorize the agreement with McKenna in February, Director of Community Development Tom Bergman said that the downtown development plan and TIF district were priorities for the DIDA, Ironwood E...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] BESSEMER - Members of the Bessemer high school class of 2022 celebrated their graduation with the return of the annual senior tea on Thursday afternoon at the city hall auditorium. The event had not been held since 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The seniors and their family members were greeted by Sue Abelman, president of the Woman's Club, which sponsors the event. They were then given a brief history of the senior tea, by Char Knaack, the...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] EWEN - The Ewen-Trout Creek School offered its Evening of the Arts on Wednesday and it was chock-full of melodic voices, jazzy instrumentation, delightful art and a whole lot of goodwill. The event started with an art show that included multiple divider walls filled with hand-drawn or painted artistry, along with several tables with a variety of other items. The hallway also included collages of historical characters compiled by younger students. "My K-6...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — After being canceled two years in a row because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the John Jarvi Jr. Memorial Run is returning to Ironwood on Saturday morning. The race is being organized by Luther L. Wright High School cross country coach Benjamin Schmandt. He also teaches math and social studies at LLW. “(The run) is done in memory of John Jarvi Jr., a good man and influential person in the community,” Schmandt said. “He was a Little Leaguer’s hero. He touched many lives with his leadership and...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] LONGUEIL, Quebec — The Canadian copper development company Highland Copper Company reported on Wednesday that it is aiming to initiate construction activities at its Copperwood Project in Gogebic County in early 2023, depending in part on the results of an updated feasibility study of the project. On Feb. 28, Highland Copper Company reported that it initiated an updated feasibility study on the Copperwood Project north of Wakefield. According to the company website, the last feasibility study of the...
By MEGAN HUGHES [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Ironwood Carnegie Library, through the Library of Michigan, hosted author John Smolens for an "evening with author" on Tuesday evening. The event, held at Contrast Coffee in downtown Ironwood, brought out a crowd of avid book-readers and aspiring writers to hear him speak and ask questions about his writing process. Smolens' novel, "Day of Days," was selected by the Library of Michigan as one of its "notable books" for 2017, and library dire...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] BESSEMER - The Gogebic Conservation District has been based in Bessemer for more than six decades, but Mayor Adam Zak noted at Monday evening's Bessemer City Council meeting that many local residents may have no idea what it offers. "I don't think people are even aware of your services," said Zak after a slideshow presentation by Max Ramsay, GCD program developer. Ramsay explained that the GCD, which provides an array of conservation services, is part of...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — In recognition for saving the life of an area resident, an Ironwood Public Safety officer and three staff from Beacon Ambulance Service were honored by the Ironwood City Commission at its regular meeting on Monday. The names of the Beacon Ambulance paramedics and EMTs were Garrett Strobel, Kenneth Wyka and Travis Yarger and the Ironwood Public Safety officer was Jamie Chiapuzio. Yarger told the Daily Globe that he and the others responded to an emergency call involving an area resident, R...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] BESSEMER — The Honor Flight Network celebrates America’s veterans by inviting those who served from 1941-1975 on all-expenses-paid trips to Washington D.C. to visit and reflect at the nation’s memorials. Since each flight is funded entirely through donations, the Bessemer Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3673 hosted a fundraiser dinner on Saturday to help veterans from the Upper Peninsula travel to the capital. Before the dinner, Louis Raykovich sang the National Anthem and Post Commander Donna Frell...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HURLEY - Hurley School District students enrolled in the Northwoods Manufacturing program had a chance to show how the student-run business functions on a day-to-day basis to the community as the department had its annual open house on Friday. Northwoods Manufacturing students continued to work as normal while visitors came in and out throughout the day to get an inside look at operations, including working on a bulk order of 250 cribbage boards commi...
BESSEMER - Construction season is fast approaching and Bessemer is gearing up for the second phase of its two large construction projects: a rebuilding of U.S. 2 through town and the city's water and sewer project. The Michigan Department of Transportation and city officials have announced that a detour of eastbound U.S. 2 traffic along city streets south of the highway will take effect May 31 and last through early September. "This summer is going to be hectic. There are a lot of good things...
HANCOCK — New COVID-19 cases in the western Upper Peninsula continued to rise over the past seven days as Gogebic and Ontonagon counties moved from low to medium COVID-19 community levels, according to an update from the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department on Thursday. From May 11-18, there were 60 new cases in Houghton County, 32 cases in Gogebic, 12 cases in Baraga, nine cases in Keweenaw and seven cases in Ontonagon, for a total of 120 new cases. This marked the fifth consecutive week that the case rate increased, the health d...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD - To help students from Luther L. Wright K-12 enjoy the warmer weather and learn about the western Upper Peninsula's history of mining communities, Downtown Art Place volunteers collaborated with Ironwood Area Schools staff and the Ironwood Carnegie Library for an outdoor art project during school hours Wednesday afternoon. Daniel Negro, Judy Balchik and Rebecca Sim's fourth grade classes used a somewhat uncommon medium for this project:...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] IRONWOOD — Now that Chad Lashua has taken on the role of vice president of business services, Gogebic Community College now has all its vice presidential positions filled. Lashua is the former director of business services at Nicolet Area Technical College in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, where he held various business-related roles since 2010. He has worked in business and industry fields since 2001. He has a Master of Business Administration degree from Western Governors University, a bachelor’s deg...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HURLEY — At the Iron County Forestry and Parks Committee meeting last week, department head Eric Peterson said they anticipated that the county ATV/UTV trails would open by the end of the month. On Monday, officer manager and trail coordinator Tara Krall confirmed that they will indeed open at 8 a.m. on Friday. “Please stay on marked ATV/UTV trails and routes, as off trail riding is trespassing and can cause loss of trail use. Be aware of changing trail conditions due to wind or rain,” Krall said...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] WAKEFIELD - A large crowd filed into the Wakefield-Marenisco gymnasium twice on Tuesday to hear students in the school's music program perform in their spring concert. The elementary students performed in the afternoon and the junior and senior high school band students performed in the evening. The afternoon concert featured K-5 students singing songs such as "My Country Tis of Thee," "Follow My Rhythms", "Banana Smoothie" and "Thunder." Then, the...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — Students at Luther L. Wright K-12 School will have a somewhat different academic year when they return from summer break in August. The Ironwood Board of Education approved the 2022-2023 school calendar at their regular meeting on Monday. Superintendent Travis Powell said this calendar has two notable differences compared to previous ones. Powell said that one difference is that the first semester ends before, not after, winter break, ending on Dec. 21 this year rather than sometime in Jan...
ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon Labor Festival will be back looking like the festivals of old after two years of altered format because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival will celebrate its 66th year as the welcome to fall Sept. 2-4. The Labor Day Committee in its first meeting of the year confirmed that Marty’s Goldenaires Drum and Bugle Corps will be back for the big parade and provide a concert. The opening event, the Friday evening picnic at the marina hosted by the village, returns and will be augmented this year with fireworks over the Ont...
MARQUETTE — Michigan State Police and other local law enforcement officials are reminding the public about the importance of wearing a seatbelt as the Memorial Day holiday weekend approaches. The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning is launching a “Click It or Ticket” seat belt enforcement campaign that runs May 16 to June 5. Lt. Mark Giannunzio, MSP’s public information officer for the U.P. based in Marquette, said they will have extra patrols out in the coming weeks as part of an effort to remind motorists to buckle up. “In times of...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] IRONWOOD - Luther L. Wright middle and high school vocal students offered their annual spring concert at the Historic Ironwood Theatre on Saturday night. The concert theme's was "world unity and brotherhood," which vocal music director Darin Schmidt said felt appropriate for a community and society just coming out of a global pandemic. The concert began with the middle school choir Ayer Street Voices. The students performed a variety of songs including...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] BESSEMER - Several people came to the Bessemer Downtown Development Authority meeting on Wednesday evening to hear a discussion about the possibility of purchasing colored, stamped concrete to be laid down along U.S. 2 as part of the ongoing highway reconstruction project. The idea was to fill the space between the curb and sidewalk with the concrete instead of grass from Mill Street to Peck Street, and the DDA was going to pay for it. However, the...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HANCOCK — There were almost 100 new COVID-19 cases but zero deaths across the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department’s five counties in seven days from May 4-11, a Wednesday briefing from the health department says. Most of the new COVID-19 cases were in Houghton County, which had 60 new cases. There were also 18 new cases in Gogebic County, eight new cases in Ontonagon County and three new cases each in Baraga and Keweenaw counties, for a total of 92 new cases. The seven-day case count went up...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] The Gogebic Range Trail Authority will perform a spring cleaning on Saturday of the snowmobile and ATV trails going from Marenisco west to the Montreal River and the border with Wisconsin, trail authority president Steve Hamilton said. GRTA members will use chainsaws to break down and remove fallen trees that are blocking the way, pick up trash and brush the trails, Hamilton said. State of Michigan ATV trails officially opened on April 1 and multi-use trails are open all year, but Hamilton told the D...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] WAKEFIELD - After months of anticipation, planning and fundraising to build a skate park on the Eddy Park tennis courts by middle school students at the Wakefield-Marenisco School, a monkey wrench has now been thrown in, which may alter their plans within weeks of opening. Area pickleball players Lorraine Mussatti and Julie Hautala made a request to the Wakefield city council on Monday for permission to create two pickleball courts on the same tennis...
