Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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MADISON, Wis. — The Mercer School is one of 167 across the state to be honored with a Wisconsin Title I School of Recognition award today in Madison, through the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. School board members Kelly Kohegyi and Deanna Pierpont traveled to the state capital to receive the award from state superintendent of public instruction Tony Evers. Award recipients were classified into three sections, including “high achieving schools,” “high progress schools” and “beating the odds schools.” All of the awards winners recei...
BESSEMER — Construction was under way Friday at the site of the future Mary Street Regional Trailhead and Ethnic Commons in Bessemer, with workers from Ruotsala Concrete building a retaining wall. “I’m not sure of the exact completion date yet,” said foreman Terry Hannu. “A lot depends on if the weather holds out.” After the retaining wall is completed, natural gray and colored sidewalks will be put down, said Hannu, and then trees will be planted and landscaping can start. Seven flagpoles w...
SAXON, Wis. — People had their paddles in hand for the annual Harvest Festival auction, sponsored by the Saxon-Gurney Community Presbyterian Church, Saturday. More than 50 people bid on a variety of items, with proceeds benefiting the church. The event also included raffles, food and items for sale, including homemade Christmas ornaments. According to church member Diana Norman, the event started many years ago, and moved from Gurney to Saxon in 1956. “The event started in Gurney because of the...
BESSEMER — To some, Halloween is a time for dressing up, getting free candy and being as scary as possible. But for Dick and Arlene Vittone, of Bessemer, Halloween is a time for birthdays, celebrations and showing off their spooky style. Each year, the Vittone’s celebrate halloween over the course of three days in October. Starting on the 29th, they celebrate Arlene Vittone’s birthday, followed by their daughter, Wasilia, Alaska, resident, Peri Rund’s birthday on Oct. 30 and Halloween on Oct....
BESSEMER — A pickup truck and a school bus collided at the intersection of U.S. 2 and Sophie Street in Bessemer on Thursday, according to a Gogebic County Sheriff’s Department release. A Hurley K-12 School bus was transporting the girls volleyball team from a game in Wakefield when it struck a pickup truck attempting to cross U.S. 2 from North Sophie Street. Sabrina Nelmark, 28, of Gile, Wis., was the driver of the bus and was “unable to avoid the collision” with the truck, driven by Nicholas Obradovich, 18, of Wakefield. One student on the...
IRONWOOD — For weeks, teachers and students have been studying and preparing and the day is almost here. On Tuesday, students across the state of Michigan will begin standardized testing. Third through ninth grade students will take the Michigan Educational Assessment Program tests which cover reading, writing, mathematics, social studies and science. According to Dan Niemi, dean of students for the Ironwood Area School District, students will have different subjects depending on grade level, w...
WAKEFIELD — Michigan state Rep. Scott Dianda, D-Calumet, called for community involvement and focus on veterans’ issues at a town hall meeting Friday at the Wakefield American Legion Geroux Post 11. Dianda was accompanied by state Reps. David Knezek, D-Dearborn Heights, and Harvey Santana, D-Detroit. The representatives focused their discussion on veterans’ issues. “Michigan is the last in the country for veterans’ benefits,” Knezek said. The state representatives proposed various ways of imp...
BESSEMER — The Rev. Benjamin Hasse is leaving his post at the Roman Catholic churches of St. Sebastian in Bessemer, Immaculate Conception in Wakefield and St. Catherine in Marenisco, effective Nov. 12. Hasse will then begin service as parochial administrator at St. Albert the Great Campus Parish in Houghton and St. Anne Parish in Chassell. The Bessemer-Wakefield-Marenisco assignment was his first pastorate, which began about a year ago, according to the Diocese of Marquette. Hasse was o...
OMA, Wis. — For the first time, Iron County hosted fourth and fifth grade students from across northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula for a Log-a-Load for Kids event Thursday. The event continues today, with hundreds of kids learning about logging operations. “Over the course of these two days, we expect more than 700 kids to be a part of this,” Joe Vairus, head of the Iron County Forestry and Parks Department, said. “It’s been a really great event.” Students from Park Falls, Bessemer, E...
LADYSMITH, Wis. — Minnesota and Wisconsin environmental agency staff members this week toured the closed Flambeau mine near Ladysmith. “We came to see what a closed mine of this sort might look like,” said Tom Landwehr, of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. “This is one of many perspectives we intend to gather as Minnesota moves farther into our own environmental protection processes about non-ferrous mining proposals,” he said. The open-pit, copper-silver-gold mine began construction in July 1991, and reclamation activitie...
BESSEMER TOWNSHIP — On Saturday at 10 a.m., the Bessemer Township Place-Making Committee will gather at Bessemer Township Memorial Park for a work bee. Velda Sclafani, of the Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency Community Development Program, said volunteers are being sought. Plans include general clean-up, as well as removing some trees and brush, Sclafani said. Long-term goals include revitalizing the township and increasing signage. If Bessemer Township creates a five-year recreation p...
To celebrate the successful opening of a new 70-mile Ottawa East Connector Trail, Michigan Trails and Recreation Alliance of Land and the Environment recently hosted an appreciation luncheon and tour. Officials from the Ottawa National Forest, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, JR Richardson, chairman of the Michigan Natural Resources Commission, and Ontonagon County Board Commissioner Dennis O’Brien attended, MI-TRALE communications coordinator Donna Wolf said. The trail opened on A...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A stranger screamed at and grabbed U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wausau (Wis.), who has been a vocal advocate for delaying the rollout of the federal health care law, as he walked to the Capitol to vote on legislation, his office said Thursday. He wasn’t harmed. The Wisconsin Republican’s office said in an email that he reported the incident to police as required by U.S. House security procedures but asked for no further action and has no comment on what happened. Duffy’s spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a message asking...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three days into a government shutdown, President Barack Obama pointedly blamed House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday for keeping federal agencies closed, while the bitter budget dispute moved closer to a more critical showdown over the nation’s line of credit. The Treasury warned of calamitous results if Congress fails to raise the debt limit. Answering Obama, Boehner complained that the president was “steamrolling ahead” with the implementation of the nation’s new health care law. As the government operated sporadica...
Schools across the state of Michigan tallied up enrollment numbers for the annual count day for the Michigan Department of Education. School districts were required to submit the number of students in the school district, Wednesday, in order to receive state funding. More students equal more funding, but while other schools across the state deal with unbalanced budgets, districts in both Gogebic and Ontonagon counties deal with declining enrollments. Out of six districts between the two...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama brought congressional leaders to the White House on Wednesday for the first time since a partial government shutdown began, but there was no sign of progress toward ending an impasse that has idled 800,000 federal workers and curbed services around the country. The standoff continued after a White House summit with chief executives as financial leaders and Wall street urged a resolution before serious damage is done to the U.S. and world economy. Obama ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Americans got their first chance Tuesday to shop for health insurance using the online marketplaces that are at the heart of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, but government websites designed to sell the policies struggled to handle the traffic, with many frustrated users reporting trouble setting up accounts. State and federal agencies were working to fix the sites, which represent the biggest expansion in coverage in nearly 50 years. There should be time to mak...
EMPIRE (AP) — After a tiring journey from Los Angeles to Detroit for a wedding, David Zorn and Jennifer Li were looking forward to a few days of camping at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan. Instead, their visit was cut short Tuesday as the park closed because of the partial government shutdown. “It’s a bummer,” Zorn said as he and Li ate a hurried breakfast of scrambled eggs and baked beans, heated over the dying embers of their campfire. “It’s something we were not...
