Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD - The Historic Ironwood Theatre played host to some local and national talent on Saturday as part of the third annual HIT Idol contest. More than 40 youth, teens and adults competed in HIT Idol, and six winners were announced Saturday night. Youth winners included Hurley seventh grader Haydn Lamerand, performing "Almost Love" by A Fine Frenzy, and Ewen-Trout Creek seventh grader Ava Moilanen, performing "Feeling Good" by Nina Simone. Teen winners included Ironwood freshman Ethan... Full story
HURLEY - Members of the Gogebic-Iron Detachment of the Marine Corps League celebrated the 238th birthday of the United States Marine Corps on Sunday. More than 30 Marines, former Marines, and their guests attended the event. This year is also the 70th anniversary of the 2nd Marine Division landing on Tarawa, the 45th anniversary of the Battle of Hue City, and the 10th anniversary of the "March Up" to Baghdad. Festivities began with a posting of the colors, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the singi... Full story
IRONWOOD - A reorganizational meeting of the Ironwood City Commission is scheduled for Monday at 6:30 p.m. in commission chambers at the Memorial Building. The mayor, mayor pro-tempore and city commissioners will be sworn in as the first item of business. David Sim is the only new member of the commission. He replaces Monie Schackleford, who was the lowest vote-getter on Tuesday out of the six candidates for the five commission seats. The commission's first action will be to hear comments at a public hearing on a request for a variance on a... Full story
IRONWOOD - American Idol season 10 finalist Casey Abrams arrived in Ironwood Thursday night in preparation for the annual HIT Idol Show at the Historic Ironwood Theatre. Abrams, a singer, songwriter and musician from Idyllwild, Calif., will perform tonight at 7. The local winners of Friday night's HIT Idol competition open for Abrams. Performers ranged from fifth grade to age 29, and came from Gogebic and Ontonagon counties, as well as Iron, Vilas and Ashland counties in Wisconsin. According to... Full story
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Gogebic Community College's Construction Technology program is ahead of schedule this fall. Students have been busy working on a ranch-style home on two levels with 3,500 square feet in north Bessemer. GCC students are enrolled, along with high school students from Wakefield-Marenisco, Bessemer and Ironwood in the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District's vocational building trades program. "At this point, the students have completed the foundation work, rough framing... Full story
IRONWOOD - Ironwood's Social Security office is moving to the upper floor in the Memorial Building on Tuesday. The relocation is being undertaken as a cost savings measure. Workers from Angelo Luppino Construction, Iron Belt, Wis., remodeled the third floor space to accommodate the Social Security Administration office. The federal government will reimburse the city for the remodeling costs paid to the company. Office hours will be Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to noon... Full story
NEW YORK (AP) - There's no shortage of buzz about beekeeping these days. From environmentalists worried about disappearing colonies to foodies seeking locally sourced liquid gold, lots of new beekeepers are itching to roll down their sleeves. With cities like New York lifting beekeeping bans, and with a wealth of new books, online videos and meet-up groups, learning the basics is easier than ever. But as a hobbyist beekeeper myself, who once moved a hive full of bees from Washington, D.C., to Ne... Full story
IRONWOOD - The revision of Ironwood's comprehensive plan kicked off Wednesday afternoon with a workshop before the planning commission meeting. Brad Scheib, of the Hoisington Koegler Group Inc., of Minneapolis, the consultant planner for the project, outlined steps for updating the comprehensive plan. Scheib said public involvement will be a key part of the process and said Ironwood residents will receive surveys designed to assist in developing the plan in their November tax bills. City... Full story
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Aspirus Grandview Hospital hosted two workshops on the new Health Insurance Marketplace on Wednesday, with another to follow at noon on Nov. 15. "We want to make sure the public knows what the hospital knows," Adrienne Chase, AGVH case manager said. With all of the glitches at the healthcare.gov website, AGVH is recommending consumers to use paper applications, Chase said. The paper applications are being processed in Kentucky, with an expected turnaround time of two weeks.... Full story
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Paleontologists on Wednesday unveiled a new dinosaur discovered four years ago in southern Utah that proves giant tyrant dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus rex were around 10 million years earlier than previously believed. A full skeletal replica of the carnivore - the equivalent of the great uncle of the T. rex - was on display at the Natural History Museum of Utah alongside a 3-D model of the head and a large painted mural of the dinosaur roaming a shoreline. It was the... Full story
IRONWOOD - The second meeting of the Kids Writers and Illustrators club encouraged several students to draw pictures and create stories to describe the one item they would bring to a deserted island. The Kids Writers and Illustrators Club meets Tuesday nights from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the elementary cafeteria at Luther L. Wright School. The program, sponsored by the Ironwood Carnegie Library, aims to help young students develop creativity through writing stories and drawing pictures. Attendance... Full story
IRONWOOD - On a 263 to 249 vote, city of Ironwood voters on Tuesday turned down a 10-year millage for street improvements. The special millage called for 10 miles of city streets to be milled and pulverized next year, with a blacktop overlay. City manager Scott Erickson said the work would likely begin in Norrie Location and then move from south to north. For a homeowner with a parcel with a taxable value of $20,000, average for the city, the 2 mills would add $40 a year to the tax bill, in... Full story
GOGEBIC COUNTY- Bessemer and Wakefield city councils face changes in composition after Tuesday's election, and Bessemer voters turned down a millage proposal with nearly three out of four voting 'no.' Bessemer Headlee Override Millage Proposal Voters in the city of Bessemer decided not to override the Headlee Amendment, which would have given council the option to raise millage up to 20 from 17.3564, or $20 from $17.3564 per $1,000 of taxable value. 268 'no' votes and 99 'yes' votes were cast.... Full story
IRONWOOD — Local and national talent will take the stage at the Historic Ironwood Theatre this weekend with two nights of HIT Idol performances. The third annual HIT Idol contest will feature more than 40 finalists from Michigan’s Gogebic and Ontonagon counties and Wisconsin’s Iron and Vilas counties, selected after two weekends of auditions. The finalists will compete Friday at 7 p.m. in three age groups: Youth, fifth through eighth grade; high school, freshmen through seniors; and young adult... Full story
HURLEY - The Iron County Historical Society is planning a revitalization of its museum this year. According to chairman Nick Zuvich, the goal is to have the museum become more of a public place. "Before, there used to be speakers who would come, and now we have the courtroom so we would like to use that space as a public area and invite speakers on a variety of topics," Zuvich said. The museum opened in 1976 in the former Iron County Courthouse on Iron Street. The plan is to modernize, using... Full story
BESSEMER - Mayor John Frello presided over his last city council meeting on Monday night. "Good luck to everybody running," Frello said. "Thank you for everything. We didn't always agree...but we had the best interests of the city at heart. Hopefully Bessemer is in a better place." The council approved an easement for Xcel Energy near Bessemer Plywood and city of Bessemer land on Industrial Access Road, which will tie into Xcel's substation. The council will conduct an organizational meeting on... Full story
WASHINGTON (AP) - Space is vast, but it may not be so lonely after all: A study finds the Milky Way is teeming with billions of planets that are about the size of Earth, orbit stars just like our sun, and exist in the Goldilocks zone - not too hot and not too cold for life. Astronomers using NASA data have calculated for the first time that in our galaxy alone, there are at least 8.8 billion stars with Earth-size planets in the habitable temperature zone. The study was published Monday in the... Full story
One of the most stressful parts of hosting a large dinner party is figuring out how to time everything so all the food arrives at the table piping hot and at its prime. This is especially true of Thanksgiving - the dinner party to end all dinner parties! Getting everything timed right is a crazy juggling act, even if you make good use of the turkey resting time (that 30-minute period between when the turkey comes out of the oven and when it is ready to be carved) to finish prepping the other... Full story
IRONWOOD - While many Ironwood students were enjoying a day off on Friday, the beginning of the second marking period, senior Adam Magdziak and his friends volunteered their time in the classroom. Magdziak, a member of Boy Scout Troop 323, is volunteering as part of his Eagle Scout project. He addressed the Ironwood Area Schools Board of Education last month to see if he could paint one of the classrooms at Sleight Elementary. The room hadn't been painted in a decade, and Magdziak wanted to... Full story
