Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Renovations at Gogebic Community College's Carl Kleimola Applied Technology Center are well under way, with the steel structural skeleton of the second floor above the automotive workshop assembled. The next step is to lay the steel pans for pouring concrete for the second floor, according to dean of business services Erik Guenard. Workers are installing duct work, said Bill Tregembo, of Angelo Luppino, Inc., Iron Belt, Wis. Tregembo expects to start on the decking Monday, a...
MARQUETTE — Three members of the Daily Globe newsroom received recognition during the 16th annual Good News Awards in Marquette Thursday. Sports editor Jason Juno, community editor Michelle Thomasini and reporter Cortney Ofstad all received awards during the event, which featured 41 award winners representing 17 media organizations from across the Upper Peninsula. “We were looking for meaningful, community-inspiring material, and we found it,” Rev. Geri Hamlen, of the United Methodist Church, sa...
ONTONAGON — Jim Johnson, captain of the Jolly Roger, and his boat crew captured first place in Ontonagon’s recent Eighth Annual Lake Trout Classic. Johnson, who operates the Jolly Roger out of Black River Harbor, and crew members Ron Maloney, of Iron River, and Dennis Forslund, of Silver City, formerly of Bessemer, caught two lakers from Lake Superior weighing more than 16 pounds and also six-pounder. They won $1,200 for first place and $200 for the largest trout. They turned all of their win...
IRONWOOD — Three members of the Class of 2013 surpassed a high goal in graduating on May 26, something superintendent Tim Kolesar can’t remember ever seeing in 30 years of working in the school district. Three graduates had cumulative grade point averages above 4.0. Maighlin Kolesar had a GPA of 4.0309, Ellen Hagstrom 4.0129 and Bradley Torni 4.0001. “That is just amazing to me,” Tim Kolesar said. According to Hagstrom and Torni, the GPAs came as a surprise. “I had no idea until I went to p...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — An 84-year-old Florida widow who bought her Powerball ticket after another customer let her get ahead in line came forward Wednesday to claim the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history: $590 million. Gloria C. MacKenzie, a retiree from Maine and a mother of four who lives in a modest, tin-roof house in Zephyrhills, where the lone winning ticket in the May 18 drawing was sold, took her prize in a lump sum of just over $370 million. After federal taxes, she is gettin...
DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government plans to sell another 30 million shares of General Motors stock in a public offering on Thursday as it speeds up efforts to divest itself from a stake in the auto giant that it got in a bailout four years ago. The Treasury Department will set the price for the shares after the markets close on Thursday, with the sale taking place shortly thereafter. A United Auto Workers retiree health care trust fund will join the sale and sell 20 million shares, pushing t...
BESSEMER — Students at Washington Elementary celebrated the last day of school with an outdoor picnic, and pie for dessert Tuesday. However, the pie was not for eating. Students participated in a “Pie the Teacher” raffle in the parking lot, helping to raise money for another teacher who is currently battling cancer. “We have been fundraising for her throughout the year, and we thought this would be a cool way to get the kids involved once again,” Diana Hansen, head teacher, said. The students...
HURLEY — Third grade students from the Hurley K-12 School helped beautify the downtown by planting flowers along Silver Street Monday. Students, paired with adult volunteers, placed flowers and plants in planters located on the sidewalks. Joy Schelble, nutrition educator coordinator for the Iron County University of Wisconsin-Extension office, coordinated the event, along with the Master Gardeners and the city of Hurley. Schelble has been working with the school district’s school garden, and...
SAXON, Wis. — Fishermen braved some rough seas both Saturday and Sunday to participate in the annual Saxon Harbor Boating Club Spring Fishing Contest. There was heavy fog on Saturday and even snow near Outer Island as the thermometer plunged to the upper 30s. Sunday’s competition began two hours after the scheduled 6 a.m. starting horn as Lake Superior waves dashed too high early for safe boating. The lake calmed down on Sunday to provide some smoother conditions. The How-ie Fish won the Cla...
ONTONAGON — The weather went from hot to icy at the annual Cook-Off for Cancer at the Ontonagon Recreation building Saturday. Seven teams of cooks started their grills and smokers Friday night to be ready for the Saturday competition of barbecued chicken, ribs and beef brisket. The meal, open to the public, also included a full dinner. Funds raised from the competition and dinner benefit the Ontonagon County Cancer Association. Tom Domitrovich chaired the benefit, along with numerous v...
Unemployment rose in four of the five western Upper Peninsula counties in April, according to the Michigan Bureau of Labor Information. In Gogebic and Ontonagon counties all the different numbers which define the labor market were impacted. Unemployment in Ontonagon County rose from 14.5 percent in March to 15.2 percent in April. The civilian labor market fell by 50; total employment fell by 75 and total unemployment rose by 25. A year ago, the April rate was 14.5 percent. The Gogebic County jobless rate rose more than one full percentage...
WAKEFIELD — Richie Yurkavich and Polkarioty performed Sunday at a dance at the Wakefield VFW to celebrate “Finland Calling” being on the air for 51 years. More than 120 people showed up, said Carl Pellonpaa. “It’s a proud moment to know that there is so much support for the show after 51 years,” said Pellonpaa. “It makes my heart pound a little bit.” “Finland Calling” is the longest running variety television show in the nation. The show’s host, Pellonpaa, an Ishpeming, Mich., native, penned...
HURLEY — With college entrance interviews and future careers just around the corner, the Hurley School District is helping to prepare students for the future. On May 15, students participated in an interview process to become teachers’ assistants for the 2013-’14 school year. The program has been in existence for many years, but this was the first year that students were required to be interviewed by faculty. “I know a lot of the kids were nervous, because they didn’t know what to expect,...
Ironwood native and Luther L. Wright High School graduate Rachel Cattelan McDonald will appear on TNT’s new competition series “The Hero” with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, as one of nine contestants. The show premieres June 6 at 7 p.m. CDT. Cattelan McDonald is a single mom to her 11-year-old son, Alijah, who is hearing impaired. He’s a straight-A student, and he tap dances and plays guitar. She has tried to teach him not to ever let anybody tell him he can’t do something because of his disability. TNT’s tag line for the reality show is, “Stren...
IRONWOOD — Twenty years and hundreds of customers later, Corrine Alexandroni can still be found behind the counter at Wells Fargo. Alexandroni celebrated her 20th anniversary with the company as a teller on Friday. Fellow employees surprised her with a cake, presents and balloons. “I am very surprised,” Alexandroni said. “I had no idea that they were going to do this.” Alexandroni has spent all of her career in the Ironwood area, and the last two years at the branch office on Cloverlan...
BEMIDJI, Minn. — On Mother’s day weekend, Jill Halberg, an artist from Bessemer, traveled to Salolampi Finnish Language Village in Bemidji to present a gift of five coats of arms she painted at her daughter, Dana Halberg’s, request. The coats of arms adorn the five cabins of the village. The Halberg family enjoyed a Finnish luncheon before presenting the gift to John “Jussi” Hanson, member of Salolampi’s board of directors. Dana Halberg serves as secretary for the board. “When asked by my d...
IRONWOOD — A class of 20 future firefighters, cheerleaders and astronauts graduated kindergarten Thursday at Sleight Elementary School in Ironwood. Niki McRae’s kindergarten class held its ceremony. Michelle Trier’s Sleight kindergarten class will graduate Monday at 1:30 p.m., while Angela Berglund’s kindergarten class graduates Tuesday at 1:30 p.m., both at the school. The Thursday ceremony opened with the class reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and the Wright Way pledge, part of the Ironwoo...
ONTONAGON — Tom Pestka gave Ontonagon Area Elementary School children a glimpse of the lumberjacks and camps of the past at the school recently. Pestka, 70, said he was born in a lumber camp near Ontonagon and worked in the woods for better than 50 years. He said his father, Felix, built 19 camps around the Ontonagon County area. Through the years, he has acquired a unique collection of lumberjack tools of the past, including a cross-saw that is more than 150 years old. In addition to the t...
