Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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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...
IRONWOOD - A tree that fell on a power line near Grand View Hospital caused some sporadic outages throughout the area on Sunday evening. Xcel Energy workers were continuing repairs on Monday. An employee said there was quite bit of damage to the system. An unlucky customer at Red's Auto Car Wash on Cloverland Drive was literally caught up in the middle of the outage. The customer was stuck in the middle of a car wash in a garage stall and because of "electrical issues," the door wouldn't rise,...
BESSEMER- New Bessemer Mayor Butch Semmerling asked questions about the Mary Street Ethnic Commons during his first city council meeting Monday. "Some people are proud of the park, some aren't," Semmerling said. He asked City Manager Michael Uskiewicz how much local money was tied up in the project. Uskiewicz said $80,000, or 20 percent local match of the $279,000 grant, is being used, with some consisting of in-kind donations from the Gogebic Range Water Authority. Concerns were raised about...
MERCER, Wis. - The holiday season came a bit early for some senior citizens in Mercer Monday. Students in Dee Rice's life skills class served an early Thanksgiving meal to seniors for the fourth consecutive year. The meal included turkey, ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, vegetables, rolls and desserts, all prepared by the students. According to district administrator Erik Torkelson, the event is an example of leadership in the community. "Our kids are fantastic leaders, and when...
WASHINGTON, Ill. (AP) - When a cluster of violent thunderstorms began marching across the Midwest, forecasters were able to draw a bright line on a map showing where the worst of the weather would go. Their uncannily accurate predictions - combined with television and radio warnings, text-message alerts and storm sirens - almost certainly saved lives as rare late-season tornadoes dropped out of a dark autumn sky. Although the storms howled through 12 states and flattened entire neighborhoods...
HURLEY - More than 100 area residents came to check out 76 quilted items made by local quilters during a show offered by the Northern Lights Quilt Guild at the Iron County Memorial Building in Hurley. Items included bed-size quilts, lap quilts, table runners, pillows and antique and baby quilts. "We have a lot of wonderful quilts and talented quilters," Guild member Sue Abelman said. Entrants included Guild members and non-members from across the Gogebic Range. A quilt with a theme about...
IRONWOOD – Candy-coated cottages with delicious doors, sugary shutters and frosted foundations were built Saturday during a free gingerbread house workshop at Downtown Art Place in Ironwood. Many area families took advantage of the activity, part of the Jack Frost Festival. More than 80 families had already been to the workshop around its halfway point, according to Arlene Schneller, gingerbread chairperson. The workshop allows participants the Jack Frost Gingerbread House Contest a place to w...
BESSEMER — A petition to oust Bessemer School Board member Bill McDonald has made a lot of progress since wording for it was approved in October, Sheri Graham said Friday. More than 270 Bessemer and Bessemer Township voters need to sign the petition by the end of December to meet the deadline for a recall against McDonald to appear on the May ballot, Graham said. “Board members have ethics and procedures to follow,” Graham said. “If someone doesn’t want to follow them, they shouldn’t be on the board,” she said. Everyone has the right to his...
HURLEY — Gogebic Taconite officials have invited residents of Iron and Ashland counties to sit down one-on-one to discuss plans for a mining operation here. On Monday, G-Tac employees will meet with residents to answer questions and address concerns about the proposed iron ore mine near Upson, Wis. The meetings, by appointment only, will be held at various spots around the two counties. The meetings are designed to help meet with residents who may be uncomfortable speaking in a public hearing format, according to Bob Seitz, spokesman for G...
HURLEY - Beginning Nov. 25, the Iron County Mobile Food Pantry will move to a new location to better serve local residents. The pantry, a collaboration between Second Harvest Food Bank in Duluth, Minn., and the Iron County University of Wisconsin-Extension office, will be moved to the parking lot of the Iron County Recycling and Forestry offices in Hurley on Third Avenue North. Originally, the pantry was located in the parking lot of the Iron County Courthouse, but the space is becoming too...
MERCER, Wis. - To say Mitch Pierce, a fifth grader at the Mercer school, had a good day of musky fishing would be a vast understatement. Pierce started a summer day on an unnamed Mercer area lake by catching a 37-inch musky, the biggest of his young fishing career. Later that same day, he followed up that success with a 44-inch monster. Some musky fishermen never land a 40-plus-inch fish in their angling lifetimes. "Mitch credited his parents, Micki and Chris Holstrom, for always taking him...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Dressed in a black Batman costume, his fists clenched as he took on foe after foe around San Francisco, a 5-year-old boy who has battled leukemia for years fulfilled his wish Friday to be his favorite superhero. In the process, Miles Scott became a darling of social media and attracted thousands of fans around the country, including the White House. "When you have an illness, it's very important to know you have a support system," said Gina Futrell, a 51-year-old with...
ONTONAGON — The St. Vincent de Paul Society in Ontonagon has assisted more than 400 families in the past year to the tune of $30,000. Helen Hoefferle, of the St. Vincent de Paul Society board, told Ontonagon Rotarians that the National St. Vincent de Paul Society is taking a new approach in its efforts to help those in need. She explained that the new approach is an effort to get people to be more self-sustaining. It includes home visits, help in referring to jobs and budgeting. In the past just giving out money was “like putting bandage on...
IRONWOOD - Ironwood's Carnegie Library is "Geeking the Library" with an open house Thursday at 5 p.m. "Geek is a verb," Elaine Erickson, library director, said. "For example, I geek the library." Geek the Library started in 2010, and is an effort in communities across the nation to show people that the library has the resources to support whatever it geeks, their passions, Erickson said. The open house will kick off the program, with goodies and treats provided. Participants can create posters a...
