Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area Scholarship Foundation received a $50,000 donation from the late Thomas C. Basso, formerly of Ironwood. Basso died on June 24, 2013, leaving a donation to the foundation. In 2003, Basso’s mother, Dorothy, left a $20,000 donation in honor of her late parents, Axel and Lena Wickman. The donation was presented to the Ironwood Area School Board of Education Monday. Superintendent Tim Kolesar wass amazed at the generosity from former alumni. “I think that one of the n...
BESSEMER — Daniel Vander Velden, former dean of students and athletic director in Oshkosh, Wis., will begin duties as high school principal and athletic director today, after being hired at the Bessemer Area School District’s special board meeting Monday night. Vander Velden was selected from a pool of 15 applicants, five of whom were interviewed. Contract negotiations have not been finalized, but it is anticipated that his contract will be for three years. “I am well aware of the pride that...
BESSEMER — City Manager Michael Uskiewicz told Bessemer City Council Monday night that FEMA payouts for four small projects have been approved for up-front payment, including $2,306 to fix a sidewalk and drainage on Clayberg Street. Another $6,922 will pay for labor and equipment used when dealing with flood issues this past spring. Altogether 11 projects were approved, with a total reimbursement from FEMA of $67,300. It is yet unclear what portion the state of Michigan will kick in toward r...
IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area School Board of Education discussed possible actions to alleviate parking and possible safety issues for the Safe Routes to School initiative during a meeting, Monday. Superintendent Tim Kolesar presented an action plan for the project, including changing bus routes, not allowing parents to park near specific entrances anymore and other possible changes. One change is having all of the buses pick up students at the handicap entrance on Pabst Street at Luther L. W...
DETROIT (AP) — The city’s biggest employee union, retirees and even a few dozen residents filed objections Monday to Detroit’s request for bankruptcy protection, the largest municipal filing in U.S. history and a move aimed at wiping away billions of dollars in debt. The filing by the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees Michigan Council 25 also came before expected objections from two city pension systems, bond holders, banks and others who hope to convince federal Judge...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — After nearly a lifetime of devotion and passion for ski jumping, ski flying and Copper Peak, Charlie Supercynski was inducted into the American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame with the Class of 2013 on Saturday night. Supercynski was enshrined for his “longtime outstanding service to the sport of ski jumping” along with sixteen other inductees at the Big Powderhorn Lodge in Bessemer. The event was held on the Gogebic Range for the first time and drew nearly 150 people, which was t...
By KATIE PERTTUNEN [email protected] BESSEMER — The Gogebic Range Woodcarvers hosted a class at A.D. Johnston High School over the weekend, drawing eight aspiring and experienced carvers. The club has been meeting regularly on the first and third Wednesday of the month for close to 25 years, said president Allen Archie. But the special annual class with visiting instructors has been going on for 14 years. Veteran carvers Elaine and Fred Stenman come from St. Cloud, Minn., to teach c...
SAXON, Wis. — Snowmobiles on snow is not uncommon, but snowmobiles on grass? That is something entirely different. Hundreds of people spent Saturday afternoon at the second annual Rolling Thunder Vintage Grass Drags at the Iron County Fair Grounds, sponsored by the White Thunder Riders of Hurley. Attendees watched classic snowmobiles race on top of grass, in excess of 80 miles per hour, with many machines from before the late 1980s. In addition to the drag races, visitors also participated in t...
HURLEY — Ricky Kelly of Hurley has spent a lot of the past 20 years helping people at the Paavo Nurmi Marathon. It was her turn last Saturday to cross the finish line after, of course, helping to make sure Wisconsin’s oldest marathon started without a hitch in Upson, Wis. Then, more than five-and-a-half hours later, she crossed the finish line to a sea of waiting volunteers, especially those from the Hurley Lioness. First she smiled. The tears rolled in right away. “That overwhelmed me and broug...
Reading the story this week about a border collie that was stuck in a tree for a few days brought back fond memories of my pooches. It seems Laddy, a 7-year-old, vanished from his home in Iowa. The clever pooch made a break for it when he discovered the battery in his collar was dead, so the electronic boundary his masters had designed didn’t work. The family desperately searched for the dog, found two days later 10 feet up in a tree by a neighbor, who heard Laddy barking. He took a photo of the...
HURLEY — A vast majority of the people attending a hearing on mining in Hurley on Thursday morning spoke against allowing bulk sampling and the Gogebic Taconite mine in general. More than 70 people attended the morning session of a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources public hearing on bulk sampling and a pre-application notice from G-Tac. The hearing was at the Hurley K-12 School. The event ran until 8 p.m. Larry Lynch, a geologist for the WDNR and technical lead for the project, said G...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Imagine a mini-raccoon with a teddy bear face that is so cute it’s hard to resist, let alone overlook. But somehow science did — until now. Researchers announced Thursday a rare discovery of a new species of mammal called the olinguito. The reddish-brown animal is about 14-inches long with an equally long tail and weighs about 2 pounds. It belongs to a grouping of large creatures that include dogs, cats and bears. The critter leaps through the trees of mountainous forests of Ec...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Federal investigators found no initial evidence that a UPS cargo jet suffered engine failure or was burning before it clipped trees at the end of a runway and slammed into a hillside, killing the two crew members onboard, officials said Thursday. UPS on Thursday night identified the victims as Capt. Cerea Beal, Jr., 58, of Matthews, N.C. and First Officer Shanda Fanning, 37, of Lynchburg, Tenn. In an email, the company said the Jefferson County, Ala., medical examiner h...
NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s biggest retailer, said the weak global economy continues to batter its low-income shoppers. The chain on Thursday cut its annual profit and revenue outlook for the year after reporting second-quarter results that missed Wall Street estimates. The company’s stock fell nearly 3 percent on the news. Wal-Mart’s sober assessment adds to worries about consumer spending that arose when Macy’s Inc. lowered its profit expectations for the year after rep...
IRONWOOD — Ironwood City Manager Scott Erickson will check out the cost of the city constructing a sidewalk on the south side of U.S. 2 in the 2014-15 highway reconstruction project. The sidewalk along the entire north side of the highway will be replaced in the Michigan Department of Transportation project, but the city commission must decide if a sidewalk should also be placed on the south side at the city’s expense. Erickson told the city commission Monday a south sidewalk could only ext...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A UPS cargo plane crashed into a field near the Birmingham airport Wednesday, killing two pilots and scattering wreckage over a wide rural area moments after witnesses heard the massive jet coming in at treetop level. People living near the airfield reported seeing flames coming from the aircraft and hearing its engines struggle in the final moments before impact. "It was on fire before it hit," said Jerome Sanders, who lives directly across from the runway. The plane, a...
IRONWOOD — Clyde and Sally Gasparick are closing their music service store, Gasparick Music, after 22 years in business in downtown Ironwood. It’s a second retirement for Clyde, who retired from teaching in 1996. Clyde moved to Ironwood from Bark River in 1966 to teach music in the Ironwood schools. He and his wife raised their five children in Ironwood. In 1991, the Gasparicks saw a need in the community for a music store, so they went into business. Sally worked the store during the day, while...
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...
