Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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HURLEY — Midland Services recently presented the Hurley Education Foundation with its annual “Cash for Kids” patronage check of $11,076. The program has been running for five years, and Midland customers can choose to credit any of their purchases, whether for gas, propane or deer corn, to the program, said Joyce Nelmark, foundation member. “It’s a great way to help the kids,” Nelmark said. “All the money goes to the foundation, and we decide what to fund. We have to use all of it.” This yea...
Michigan will spend nearly $2 million through Oct. 1 to promote fall colors and other fall attractions, according to the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. Fall color season is just around the corner and the Pure Michigan advertising campaign has been launched with television and radio ads that will air regionally and statewide. “We are wrapping up another strong summer tourism season and we want to carry that momentum into the fall,” said George Zimmermann, vice-president of Travel Mic...
WAKEFIELD — Immaculate Conception Catholic Church celebrated the centennial anniversary of its consecration Sunday in Wakefield. According to the Rev. Ben Hasse, the parish began its existence in 1886, and it was consecrated by the bishop on Sept. 1, 1913. The event consisted of Mass and a luncheon. “There was a lot of real positive participation,” Hasse said. “Families were able to reconnect over generations and there seemed to be a lot of gratitude.” Currently, the parish is working on collec...
IRONWOOD — Vandalism damage at the Gogebic County Fairgrounds is under investigation by the Ironwood Public Safety Department. The IPSD received a 3:10 a.m. Wednesday complaint about a building break-in at the fairgrounds from Bill McDonald, who was dropping off some carnival equipment. McDonald noticed the main office door swinging open and discovered a side window on the building had been smashed. Inside the large main office building, fire extinguishers had been sprayed and pop cans and d...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — The fifth annual “Flyin’ 4 Food” campaign sponsored by Great Lakes Airlines during the month of September, Hunger Action Month, is underway, according to Great Lakes Station manager Marti Armata. Each Monday a donor’s name will be drawn, and the winner will receive a free round-trip ticket to Minneapolis. Last year the Gogebic-Iron County Airport took third place in the internal competition to collect the most food for their community, with just over 400 pounds of food, sai...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Residents in the tough Cleveland neighborhood where three women were secretly imprisoned for a decade reacted with scorn and grim satisfaction Wednesday after Ariel Castro hanged himself in his cell barely a month into a life sentence. Even the prosecutor on the case joined in. “This man couldn’t take, for even a month, a small portion of what he had dished out for more than a decade,” said Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty. Castro, 53, was found hanging from a bedsheet Tue...
The 8.4 inches of rain that Ironwood received in August didn’t set a monthly rainfall record, but it came close. A whopping 6.53 inches fell in the last week of the month, the result of numerous thunderstorm cloudbursts, after a relatively dry first three-plus weeks of August. The 8.4 inches compares to the record 8.86 inches recorded in 1941, according to the National Weather Service office in Marquette. Records are kept for about the past 110 years. In comparison, 1.84 inches fell on I...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama gained ground Tuesday in his drive for congressional backing of a military strike against Syria, winning critical support from House Speaker John Boehner while administration officials agreed to explicitly rule out the use of U.S. combat troops in retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack. The leader of House Republicans, Boehner emerged from a meeting at the White House and said the United States has “enemies around the world that need to und...
BESSEMER — A public hearing was scheduled directly before Tuesday’s city council meeting in Bessemer to discuss a variance request from Shawn Koski, who wanted to put a home behind his shop, which is zoned for industrial purposes. Koski’s request was denied. Council member Linda Nelson, who sits on the Planning Commission, said the commission made their recommendation to deny the variance because, “It’s not a hardship situation.” Mayor John Frello said that variances to zoning ordinances...
HURLEY — Hundreds of people celebrated their Italian heritage, or pretended to be Italian for a day, during the annual Festivale Italiano in downtown Hurley Saturday. Hurley Area Chamber of Commerce director Dorrene O’Donnell said the event was “humbling” in terms of community support. “It is just nice to see,” O’Donnell said. “To have this many people show up for a community event is wonderful.” Attendees dined on authentic Italian foods, including spaghetti, raviolis, gnocchis and other dishes...
ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon Labor Day Festival Parade brought large crowds, music and ingenious home built floats to River Street Sunday. Float competition was close. “Judging this was really tough,” said Don Lutz. He was in Ontonagon for his 50th class reunion and to serve as one of five float judges. The first place went to the Norwich Country Club with its three-part float. The first section featured WLUV TV weatherman Karl Bohnak, a weary ice fisherman and the tough winter of 2013. The secon...
DETROIT (AP) — Labor union supporters and the governor who made this the first right-to-work Labor Day in Michigan marched on opposite ends of the state Monday as America observed the holiday honoring working people. Gov. Rick Snyder set a fast pace as he led thousands of walkers across the 5-mile Mackinac Bridge that links Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas. In Detroit, Teamsters union national President James Hoffa was among the thousands of participants in the annual Labor Day rally. Sny...
IRONWOOD — Back to school is a whole different ballgame for a student parent with three children in school. Beki Farrell, 34, of Ironwood, started her sixth semester at Gogebic Community College this week. She has made the dean’s list every semester, and is transferring to the University of Wisconsin-Superior to pursue a degree in childhood counseling after this semester. Farrell’s children are Niko, 15, Devon, 12, and Levi, 5. They go back to school next week. When Farrell first started at GC...
BERGLAND — The Trap Hills Conservation Alliance and Save the Wild U.P. hosted a day of events celebrating the Trap Hills, a rustic, scenic area along the North Country Trail between Old Victoria and M-64 north of Bergland, on Aug. 18. Participants from across the western U.P. and as far as Duluth, Minn., gathered at Bergland Township Park. Participants enjoyed guided hikes on the North Country Trail and the Cascade Falls Trail north of Bergland. Wisconsin folk singer Skip Jones played tunes i...
With Labor Day activities filling up the weekend and many traveling to spend time with family and friends, local law enforcement wants to remind people of safety practices during the holiday. Last year in Wisconsin, 10 people died in traffic crashes during the holiday weekend and in Michigan, eight people died. To prevent traffic deaths and injuries this year, Wisconsin, Michigan and other states are participating in the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign. In Michigan last year, off...
IRONWOOD — Officials of the Ottawa National Forest are conducting outreach to fill positions on two federal resource advisory committees. “I am very pleased Gogebic and Ontonagon counties have elected to continue with their RACs,” said Tony Scardina, Ottawa National Forest supervisor. “RACs are a great way for interested community members to engage in a public lands dialogue and recommend resource projects funded by the Secure Rural Schools Act.” RACs are responsible for reviewing and recommending projects for implementation under Title II...
NEW YORK (AP) — Days of finding a quarter under your pillow are long gone. The Tooth Fairy no longer leaves loose change. Kids this year are getting an average of $3.70 per lost tooth, a 23 percent jump over last year’s rate of $3. And that’s a 42 percent spike from the $2.60 per tooth that the Tooth Fairy gave in 2011, according to a new survey by payment processor Visa Inc., released Friday with an update of the company’s Tooth Fairy personal finance app. Part of the reason for the sharp rise: Parents don’t want their kids to be the ones...
IRONWOOD — Football players at Luther L. Wright High School in Ironwood are drinking something different after games as part of the “Rethink Your Drink” campaign through the National Dairy Council. Instead of water, juice or sports beverages, players are drinking chocolate milk. “Each year different grants are available in different areas and this year we received a grant from the National Dairy Council,” Mary Hampston, school district food service director, said. “It’s a good connection be...
