Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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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...
TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) - The air was thick with the stench of decay as sweating workers lowered the plastic coffins one by one into a grave the size of an Olympic swimming pool. Scores of unidentified bodies were interred together Thursday in a hillside cemetery without any ritual - the first mass burial in this city shattered by last week's Typhoon Haiyan. Six days after the disaster, some progress was being made in providing food, water and medical aid to the half-million people displaced...
ONTONAGON - The Ontonagon Area School Book Fair Tuesday sold more than $4,000 in books which will result in 1,800 scholastic dollars for books in the school. For more than 20 years, there has been a book fair where children, adults and organizations can choose the finest books for all school-aged children. For six of those years, it has been the "organizational baby" of Avelin Yost. Yost transformed a room at the Ontonagon School into a children's bookstore with imaginative displays geared for v...
IRONWOOD - The Daily Globe is hosting its fourth annual food drive through Nov. 22. Non-perishable food items can be dropped off at the office, Mondays through Fridays, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. To help boost the number of donations, the Globe is offering an incentive. "People who bring in five or more non-perishable food items will receive a one-week subscription to the Daily Globe, current or new," Marisa Casari, circulation manager, said. "We hope to get as many items as possible." This year,...
RIB MOUNTAIN, Wis. (AP) - Hundreds turned out for Sarah Palin's Christmas book signing at a Walmart in the Wausau area. The former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate is promoting her new book, "Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas." Carrie Kolbeck of Wausau was among those waiting Thursday to meet Palin. Kolbeck says Palin "just believes in standing up for religious freedom" and calls her "a very brave woman." It was Palin's fourth stop on her national...
IRONWOOD - Sgt. Adam Clemens, of the Ironwood Public Safety Department, gave nearly 50 community members tips and information on how to spot drug use and what to do if they suspect it at a presentation at Luther L. Wright High School Wednesday night. Other members from the Gogebic Iron Area Narcotic Team from IPSD, the Gogebic County Sheriff's Department, and Hurley Police Department were on hand to answer questions as well. GIANT has created a tip line (1-855-644-4219) and an email addresss...
TRAVERSE CITY - During a lifetime of hunting, John Haggard has targeted elk in Colorado, moose in Alaska and caribou in Canada. Now comes a new challenge closer to home: the gray wolf. Michigan's first wolf hunt since the animal was placed on the endangered species list nearly 40 years ago gets underway Friday. Haggard is among 1,200 people licensed to participate and he's been counting the days. "They're a crafty animal," said Haggard, 72, of Charlevoix. "Even at my age, I'm always willing to...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Recalling the governor and others from office in Wisconsin would be more difficult, in-person absentee voting hours would be restricted and photo identification would be required to cast a ballot under a flurry of divisive measures the state Assembly plans to pass Thursday. The elections bills aren't the only hot-button issues the Republican-controlled chamber plans to approve on its final session day of the year. Also slated for passage are proposals limiting the public's...
NEW YORK - The first trickle of fuels made from agricultural waste is finally winding its way into the nation's energy supply, after years of broken promises and hype promoting a next-generation fuel source cleaner than oil. But as refineries churn out this so-called cellulosic fuel, it has become clear, even to the industry's allies, that the benefits remain, as ever, years away. The failure so far of cellulosic fuel is central to the debate over corn-based ethanol, a centerpiece of America's g...
IRONWOOD - High school students in Megan Maki's honors English class practiced literary law and order Tuesday. The project involved arguing for or against charging a character from William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" with involuntary manslaughter. The book involves a group of British school boys being stranded on a deserted island. Over time, the boys take on a savage nature, resulting in dangerous situations and the untimely deaths of a few of the children. "Because this is an honors class, I...
BESSEMER - August "Butch" Semmerling was elected mayor of Bessemer at Monday's city council reorganizational meeting, having garnered the most votes Nov. 5 at 271 and receiving an unanimous vote from the council. Semmerling said, "I'd like to thank everyone for supporting me in this election." The Nov. 5 election drew a poor 22 percent turnout in Bessemer, with 375 votes cast. Al Gaiss and Doug Olsen tied for second with 257 votes apiece, so a coin was tossed, and Gaiss won for mayor pro...
