Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
MARENISCO - Handmade Christmas gifts abounded at the second annual Marenisco Library Craft Fair and Luncheon on Saturday at the Marenisco Township Hall. Along with an array of baked goods, candies, jellies and jams, shoppers could pick from beach glass jewelry from Ontonagon, photography from White Pine, or yak down hats from Bergland. Other unique items included stained glass, special fabric envelopes for microwaving baked potatoes, jewelry and a wide variety of knit goods. Yak down is as soft...
(AP) - Skydiving instructor Mike Robinson was at 12,000 feet, just seconds away from his fourth and final jump of the day, when a second plane carrying other skydivers struck the aircraft he was in, sending them all tumbling toward the ground. None of the nine skydivers or two pilots sustained serious injury when the two planes collided in midair Saturday evening in far northwest Wisconsin near Lake Superior. Officials with the Federal Aviation Administration were in the area Sunday talking to...
IRONWOOD - Fourth and fifth grade students from Northwoods Christian Academy of Hurley recently learned about money management and banking skills during a trip to Wells Fargo Bank in Ironwood. Tina Abrolat, customer sales and service representative, presented the "Hands-on Banking" program to students. The children learned about savings accounts, how to write a check and balance a checkbook, and the value of responsible credit. "This is an excellent, hands-on, interactive and fun program," teach...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican state senator has crafted a new compromise plan that would allow outdoor lovers to continue to explore the forest near a potential northwestern Wisconsin mine site and keep protesters away from mine workers. About 3,500 acres around the site just south of Lake Superior are part of the state’s managed forest program, which grants landowners reduced fees in lieu of property taxes if they keep the land open for public recreation. Tensions have run high at the site since protesters walked up to mine workers thi...
ODANAH, Wis. - A former tribal council member said Friday he can't understand why the Bad River Indian Reservation's council isn't making inadequate treatment of its sewage more of a priority. With a tribal election set for Tuesday, Tom Deragon Jr., who said he sat on the tribal council for a year, has put up a sign along U.S. 2, near the Bad River Casino, seeking to "raise community awareness" about the tribe's polluting of the Bad River and Lake Superior. "Nothing's getting done," he said. "I...
BESSEMER - A.D. Johnston's Key Club got the whole school inspired to gather coats for those in need with winter approaching. The students' first period classes competed against each other, with Tracy Rowe's class bringing in 40 of the 77 coats donated. The children's coats will be donated to Washington Elementary students in need, with the remainder going to St. Vincent de Paul, Barbara Waara, Key Club advisor, said. Principal Dan Vander Velden is congratulating the classes by bringing in...
IRONWOOD - Staff members used part of an in-service day to tackle bullying Friday at Luther L. Wright School in Ironwood. Heidi Lauzon, crisis prevention institute instructor and behavior consultant for the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District, spoke to faculty about how to address bullying. The session dealt with student-to-student bullying, focusing on the bully, the bullied and the bystander. Lauzon discussed definitions of bullying, roles students play in bullying situations and...
