Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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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...
IRONWOOD — Local author Pat O’Neill will be hosting a “story-bearing benefit” Tuesday at Tacconelli’s in Ironwood at 6:30 p.m. The event will feature passages from O’Neill’s book “Songs of the Coyote,” as well as poems from his upcoming book “Paste Baby Black.” Proceeds from the event benefit local creative programs through the Ironwood Carnegie Library, Downtown Art Place and Schneller Art Gallery. “Every penny goes to the kids,” O’Neill said. “They do a phenomenal job with those pro...
HURLEY — Residents of Iron County took part in the first mobile food pantry Monday at the Iron County Courthouse in Hurley. The pantry was created through a partnership between the Iron County University of Wisconsin-Extension office and Second Harvest Food Pantry, of Duluth, Minn. Food was handed out for an hour in the parking lot, with many residents lining up before food was handed out. “It’s exciting to see how receptive people are, and it also shows us the level of need we have in Iron...
FOREST PARK, Ill. (AP) — Officials said nobody was at the controls of an empty commuter train that slammed into another train at a suburban Chicago station Monday, injuring dozens of commuters, but they don’t know how the train got moving. Video footage shows that nobody was driving the 4-car Chicago Transit Authority train as it rumbled the wrong way toward the train parked at the Harlem Avenue station about 10 miles west of Chicago. But investigators were trying to determine if it somehow star...
IRONWOOD — The Western Upper Peninsula Planning and Development Region Commission held its 45th annual meeting Monday night at Tacconelli’s in Ironwood, with speakers discussing Michigan’s wolf population, the Michigan Trails and Recreation Alliance of Land and the Environment, and the presentation of the Oreste Chiantello Award. J.R. Richardson, chairman of Michigan’s Natural Resource Commission, said the commission is spending a lot of time trying to decide how timber can be harvested sustain...
BESSEMER — The 35th annual Pumpkinfest was held in Bessemer from Thursday to Sunday, beginning with spaghetti at the American Legion and ending with a roast beef and rotisserie chicken dinner at the VFW. Thousands of people attended this year’s event, event co-chair Donna Frello said. “It went very well despite the weather.” Saturday was jam-packed with activities for all ages, starting with a pumpkin pancake breakfast and including a craft fair, antique tractor display, children’s costume p...
EWEN — Humorous floats carried whimsically-dressed patrons along the main street of Ewen on Saturday for the 37th annual Ewen Log Jamboree. The celebration took place this past Friday and Saturday at various spots throughout the town. On Friday, attendees were able to attend a bake sale and craft fair at Centennial Hall and witness the Log Jamboree Variety Show at the Ewen-Trout Creek School. The events on Saturday commenced with a Logger’s Fun Run/Walk at 9 a.m. Other events included a cra...
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the government teeters on the brink of a partial shutdown, congressional Republicans vowed Sunday to keep using an otherwise routine government funding bill to try to attack “Obamacare.” Congress was closed for the day after a post-midnight vote in the GOP-run House to delay by a year key parts of the new health care law and repeal a tax on medical devices, in exchange for avoiding a shutdown. The Senate is slated to convene Monday afternoon just hours before the shutd...
This is an AP Member Exchange shared by The Macomb Daily (Mount Clemens). ——— ROYAL OAK (AP) — Royal Oak author Pete Wurdock is taking his fourth book, “Bending Water and Stories Nearby,” on the road to the Upper Peninsula where the ideas for his northern Michigan short story collection were formed. Wurdock, 48, is heading north to “shoot videomercials” and incorporate his work on social media as a way to promote the book. “I’m going to real places where these stories take place and shoot one...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Time running short, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed urgent legislation Friday to avert a government shutdown early next week, and President Barack Obama lectured House Republicans to stop “appeasing the tea party” and quickly follow suit. Despite the presidential plea — and the urgings of their own leaders — House GOP rebels showed no sign of retreat in their drive to use the threat of a shutdown to uproot the nation’s three-year-old health care law. “We now move on t...
DETROIT (AP) — Obama administration officials said Friday that they are sending someone to Detroit to oversee a federal effort that includes millions of dollars in grants to help fix the beleaguered city — a situation one adviser described as “an exceptional circumstance.” Don Graves will coordinate the public and private money going to hire more police and firefighters and clear out blighted neighborhoods, among other things, officials said. Graves, a Treasury Department official, serves...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving closer to the brink of a government shutdown, House Republicans vowed Thursday they won’t simply accept the stopgap legislation that is likely to remain after Senate Democrats strip away a plan to dismantle President Barack Obama’s health care law. The defiant posture sets the stage for weekend drama on Capitol Hill after the Senate sends the fractious House a straightforward bill to keep the government operating through Nov. 15 rather than partly closing down at midni...
ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon-White Pine Rotary Club presented SONCO Ambulance with a check for $771 Wednesday as a result of the Rotary Club Log Race over the Labor Day weekend. The money will purchase a Littmann electronic stethoscope and a Welch Suretemp electron thermometer for the ambulance. According to Gina Linna, SONCO manager, the stethoscope offers improved quality and ease of use to help make a clear diagnosis. “It is a state-of- the-art sound sensor which provides a life-like, hig...
IRONWOOD — Students at Gogebic Community College participated in the first ever food pantry/farmers market on campus, Wednesday. The idea for the project came on Tuesday morning, according to Cindy Franck, student outreach and retention coordinator at GCC, after students spoke to staff about not having enough food. “We had a good idea, and we went for it,” Franck said. Campus counselor Mark Wendt said many students are dealing with the changes of not qualifying for food-assistance Bridge Cards...
IRONWOOD — The Friends of Miners Memorial Heritage Park unveiled two new interpretive signs Tuesday at the park in Ironwood during their fifth annual vigil on the anniversary of the Pabst Mine Disaster. The Pabst Mine Disaster occurred on Sept. 24, 1926, when a cave-in at the G Shaft killed three miners instantly and trapped 43 miners for five days. The tragedy made national headlines following the rescue efforts. The signs, located at the mine’s G and H shafts, recount the tragedy and res...
