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Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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The three municipalities involved in a $1,160,000 improvement project at Gogebic-Iron Wastewater Treatment Plant in Ironwood approved bonding for the work this week. The city of Ironwood and Ironwood Township approved bond documents on Monday and the city of Hurley approved the borrowing on Tuesday. The three communities will borrow $465,000 through the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality in a 2 percent loan to help pay for the project. The remaining money will come from the...
ROCKLAND — Construction on the Victoria Dam in Ontonagon County is nearly 40 percent complete, according to officials, who are targeting a Nov. 15 finishing date. Virgil Schlorke, manager of Regional Generation, said the project got off to a slow start because of the poor spring weather, but it has now caught up to projections. The hydro-electric power generated at Victoria helps meet energy needs of the Upper Peninsula Power Company’s 52,000 customers in 86 communities in 10 of the 15 U.P. cou...
IRONWOOD — A blighted structure has been boarded up to be demolished and another house is scheduled to be leveled, the Ironwood City Commission learned Monday. An eyesore at 213 Bonnie St. that was condemned by the city has been taped off and the city will seek bids from contractors to get it torn down. City officials have been working for the past three years to raze the structure at 213 Bonnie owned by John Harteloo. The commission condemned the property on Feb. 11 and gave Harteloo until A...
SILVER CITY — The Friends of the Porkies will present the ninth annual Porcupine Mountains Music Festival Friday through Sunday, Aug. 23-25, at the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park winter recreation area near Silver City. The festival features 41 international, national, regional and local acts performing on three stages. Organizers place their focus on music rather than one dominating style, offering a wide variety of sounds throughout the event, a news release said. “We are uni...
IRONWOOD — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder helped dedicate Depot Park in Ironwood, Monday as part of his plan to create a 600-mile biking-hiking trail from Belle Isle in Detroit to Ironwood. Snyder and local leaders spoke about the project, and how the park has become a trailhead for the statewide trail system. “It is great to be here and I couldn’t think of a better place to start than right here in Ironwood,” Snyder said. Before Snyder spoke, Mayor Kim Corcoran spoke about the history of Ironwoo...
When I was growing up, I loved my mom’s stuffed eggs. Heck, as a chubby and happy-go-lucky kid, I loved anything filled with mayonnaise. As I grew older, I figured out that these seductive little bite-sized appetizers (also called deviled eggs, at least when spiked with something hot) were packed with calories. Happily, I now know that you don’t need a ton of mayonnaise to make a tasty filling. This recipe satisfies the heedless little kid in me and the more prudent grown-up. But first, we need...
SAXON, Wis. — Arnold Kero, of Saxon, was 7 years old in September of 1944 when he arrived home from school to hear the worst news any kid could imagine. His father, Emil, was plowing a clearing that has since grown over with trees at the Kero homestead on Niemi Road, near the Saxon Flowage. Emil Kero got down off the tractor and told Arnie his older brother, William, 23, was one of 48 American soldiers who had been killed while fighting the Germans over control of bridges in Holland. The f...
IRONWOOD — Luther L. Wright School in Ironwood has been named as one of "America’s Best High Schools in 2013," according to the U.S. News and World Report. According to middle and high school principal Michelle Kanipes, she found out LLW had received a bronze award in July. "It was really some wonderful news in light of all the negative information surrounding public education in middle-high schools in Michigan," Kanipes said. "This is especially important (to me) because the award is a reflection of the commitment to student achievement our...
BANNING, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters continued to make progress overnight battling Southern California’s latest destructive wildfire, which burned 26 homes and threatened more than 500 others in the San Jacinto Mountains. Riverside County fire department’s Jeff La Russo said full containment of the more than 30-square-mile blaze is expected Monday. The Silver Fire charred roughly 19,400 acres and is 75 percent contained. The fire stopped advancing Saturday as firefighters focused on extinguishing...
IRONWOOD — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder kicks off a two-day tour of the Upper Peninsula Monday, beginning with a stop in Ironwood. Snyder will help dedicate the Western Gateway to Pure Michigan trailhead at Depot Park in downtown Ironwood at 9 a.m. Monday. The park is at the intersection of Suffolk and Lowell streets. Also in Ironwood, Snyder will attend a presentation on the Orvana Copperwood mine project at Orvana’s offices on Lake Road in Ironwood at 9:35 a.m. Immediately following the presentation, Snyder will tour the mine site at 10:15 a.m....
IRONWOOD — All it took was a badge for local resident Bruce Cox to be inspired by something from the past. For more than 30 years, Cox has researched streetcars on the Gogebic Range. It started after Cox received a couple of copper badges once used by streetcar line operators from the Twin City General Electric Company. “I wrote a story for the ‘Junk Box,’ an official publication of the Michigan Token and Medal Society in 1982,” Cox said. “I was also interested in the celluloid tokens used...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Things are going “slow and steady” with the Copperwood project, the proposed copper mine in Ironwood and Wakefield townships, according to Dave Anderson, of Orvana Resources. Construction hasn’t started on the site, but the company has obtained all six permits required for mining in Michigan. Currently, employees are finishing the final design on the underground portions of the mine site and refining the design on the mill to improve concentrated grade. “We hope to have all of that done by October,” Anderson said. “Then we’l...
MERCER, Wis. — Winners have been announced for the annual loon calling contest during the Loon Day celebration in Mercer on Wednesday. More than 60 participants of all ages gave their best shots at impersonating a loon. According to Tina Brunell, executive director of the Mercer Area Chamber of Commerce, the event was successful. “Loon Day was again very successful, and the weather turned out beautiful after the brief rain outburst in the morning,” Brunell said. In the age 0-6 category, there were 23 participants and Landon Keberle, of Spoka...
IRONWOOD — Michigan State University Extension will offer a training program for local officials working in planning, zoning, community and economic development starting next month. The MSUE Citizen Planner program will meet Thursday evenings between Sept. 19 and Oct. 30, with the final session on a Wednesday. Local courses will meet from 5 to 8 p.m. at Gogebic Community College. The training includes proper procedure for planning and zoning, knowledge to avoid compromising people’s due process and private property rights and more, a news rel...
HURLEY — The Iron County Finance Committee approved hiring of a third economic support specialist for the Iron County Human Services Department Thursday. At its July meeting, the committee approved hiring of two economic support specialists for the department, as required by the state of Wisconsin. The hiring does not cost the county any money, as the position is funded entirely by the state. According to county clerk Mike Saari, human services director Carolyn Kolson-Janov told him the state m...
BEAUMONT, Calif. (AP) — A growing wildfire chewed through a rugged Southern California mountain range on Thursday, damaging buildings, threatening as many as 600 homes and forcing some 1,500 people to flee. A thousand firefighters, 13 helicopters and six air tankers battled the flames as they pushed eastward along the San Jacinto Mountains, a desert range 90 miles east of Los Angeles, said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The fire was e...
MERCER, Wis. — Hundreds of people walked through downtown Mercer on Wednesday for the 33rd annual Loon Day celebration. Vendors lined U.S. 51, as well as numerous side streets, selling a variety of homemade items, including jewelry, lawn decorations, clothes, food and more. For Linda Barber, of Manitowish Waters, Wis., the event is personal. “The loon is my favorite bird, so I always make sure to come here,” Barber said. “My house is completely decorated with loons.” Barber has been attending th...
BESSEMER — Friday morning at 6 a.m. Bessemer will be featured on “Today in America” on the Discovery channel, which reaches 104 million households. Bessemer’s spot is five minutes long, said city council member Al Gaiss, and the city’s intention in creating the spot was to attract people and businesses to the area to see what Bessemer and the surrounding area have to offer, especially to those sick of the rat race. Mayor John Frello, former Chamber of Commerce president Glen Pavlovich...
DETROIT — Rebecca Swett successfully defended her doctoral thesis in the chemistry department at Wayne State University in Detroit on July 23. Swett’s successful defense of her thesis, “Computational Approaches for Anti-toxin Therapies and Biomarker Identification,” earned her a Doctor of Philosophy degree. She worked on the thesis with professors Andreas Cisneros and Andrew Feig for five years. Swett has accepted a position with a company in Boston and has relocated there. She is the daughte...
