Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more. Scientists even have a horror-movie name for the infestation: Brood II. But as ominous as that sounds, the insects are harmless. They won’t hurt you or other animals. At worst, they might damage a few saplin...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Gogebic Community College’s Art Space displayed student art Friday and Saturday, with 12 artists showing their work. The show will be open through graduation on Thursday. Kaite Anderson, a graphic communications student, has several pieces in the showing. “Drawings are about the emotions that we hide,” Anderson said. Photography is her favorite medium because she likes the challenge. “I like to take something broken, like an old building, and make it beautiful,” she said An...
IRONWOOD — Tim Mesun played his third benefit for HOPE Animal Shelter at Theatre North Saturday evening. It was the 12th benefit he has played in his career. He was joined on stage by Matt Agee in a special performance by “La Fratelli Azzuri,” or “The Blues Brothers,” in English. “I really enjoy jazz and blues, and I am performing five new songs tonight,” Mesun said. His last benefit for HOPE raised $400. His new songs included, “Destination,” and “Canto di Ringraziamento,” wh...
WAKEFIELD — Water levels of Sunday Lake fell 2 feet by Saturday, then another 2 to 3 inches by Sunday, said Scott Gronert of Kleiman Pump and Well Drilling of Iron Mountain. The company has been monitoring water levels around the clock after pumping water out of the lake for two days, said Gronert. M-28 was closed during the pumping. The highway was open over the weekend. “If the water starts to come up again, we will call the city and the Michigan Department of Transportation to get the road closed again,” said Gronert. It would take betwe...
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Perched in a boat drifting slowly along the Red River, Dan Thomas kept one eye on a laptop and the other on a $60,000 piece of floating hardware that beamed sound waves deep into the flooding river. As the signal bounced off water molecules and returned, the laptop sorted it into data on the river’s depth and speed and transmitted it instantly to the National Weather Service. Once there, the work by the U.S. Geological Survey’s water expert became part of the data stew the w...
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — Cool, moist air moving into Southern California on Sunday helped firefighters build containment lines around a huge wildfire burning through coastal mountains. Fire crews took advantage of improved conditions as the high winds and hot, dry air of recent days were replaced by the normal Pacific air, significantly reducing fire activity. The 44-square-mile blaze at the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains was 60 percent surrounded Sunday morning. Full containment w...
NEENAH, Wis. (AP) — When Ken Zwick and Carol Hollar-Zwick bought their Neenah home in 1999, they knew the backyard contained an underground fallout shelter built during the height of the Cold War. What they didn’t know — and wouldn’t discover until they ventured into the shelter more than a decade later — was the bunker was fully stocked with food and survival supplies from 1960 by the previous homeowner. “We assumed it was just this empty space,” Hollar-Zwick said. When the Zwicks unlock...
EAST LANSING — A total of 32 Bessemer middle and high school students traveled to Michigan State University in East Lansing to compete in the 31st Michigan Science Olympiad on April 27. Regional competitions in February and March narrowed more than 400 high school and middle school students down to 96 teams. The high school team finished 33rd of 48 high school teams, while the middle school placed 39th out of 48 middle school teams. “Although the competition was fierce, our small school did ver...
The first time I had to test a recipe for steamed fish was back in the ‘80s, when I was working in the test kitchen at Gourmet magazine. And truthfully, the very idea seemed preposterous. Steaming anything over water had always struck me as boring. And the idea that you could count on a good result by applying such an intense method to a protein as delicate as fish seemed highly unlikely. But the recipe in question relied on the Chinese method of steaming fish, and I became a believer the v...
HURLEY — The Silver Street bridge was reopened to traffic Thursday afternoon as the water level on the Montreal River dropped substantially during the day. With more than a foot of slushy snow falling on the Ironwood area, Iron County Emergency Management Director Stacy Ofstad said it was still a “wait and see game,” however. Lt. Mike Rimkus of the Ironwood Public Safety Department said the water had gone down quite a bit in the east branch of the river at the Silver Street bridge. A bridg...
HURLEY — First grade students at the Hurley K-12 School are in the process of hatching 24 chicks as part of a unique way to learn about their life cycles. Teacher Kellie Pitrone started the project this year after years of doing it in another district. “Everyone is very excited,” Pitrone said. “We hope this tradition continues here.” The project began on April 10, and after 22 days, the class already had over five chicks hatched, with more on the way. “My friend has a hobby farm, so he supplied...
ROTHSCHILD, Wis. — Representatives of MI-TRALE attended the 2013 Wisconsin All-Terain Vehicle Association’s annual meeting-convention April 19-21 in Rothschild. President Don Helsel, secretary Linda Schulz and trail manager Mike Schulz manned the MI-TRALE booth. The group attended since it’s a member of the WATVA. “There were more than 100 persons in attendance and we were very excited that we distributed almost that many MI-TRALE maps and some 50 membership applications,” Linda Schulz sa...
MARSHFIELD, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man used sewing skills he learned in the military to make his daughter’s dream prom dress — in camouflage. Mariah Herron, 17, of Marshfield, said she hunts and works on construction projects and she wanted a dress that fit her personality. She began looking for one made from camouflage fabric but couldn’t find one that was affordable. “I jokingly asked my dad if he could make me a prom dress. When he said yes, I was surprised,” Herron told News-Herald Media. H...
IRONWOOD — Can the weather get any worse? The Ironwood area was under both winter storm and flooding advisories Wednesday from the National Weaether Service office in Marquette. Both the Silver and Poplar Street border bridges on the Montreal River were closed to traffic Wednesday because of rising water levels as crews piled sandbags to protect businesses. Sandbags piled four high were stacked up in case the river washed over the bridge on Silver Street. As of Wednesday afternoon, the river h...
HURLEY — Eighty sixth and eighth graders presented geology, chemistry and consumer-based projects at a science fair at the Hurley K-12 School Wednesday. “We had some students do projects on consumer science, like the best kind of hairspray and the best paper towel,” said sixth grade teacher Steve Lombardo. “The kids did outstanding on their projects.” Ten judges from the community graded students on the use of the scientific method, creativity and originality, overall display of data, whether th...
More personal, more inventive. Those are the dominant trends in wedding receptions, experts say, in an era when brides have all the resources of the Internet to plan, share and often produce their own affairs. Many are drawn to something beyond the traditional banquet/speeches/garter throw-and-go reception of the past. Pins, plans Sites like Project Wedding, The Knot, Wedding Wire and Pinterest show a wide variety of designs for fabric and paper decorations, centerpieces, color schemes, food...
I was chopping vegetables for dinner recently when my 14-year-old daughter, Grace, disappeared with the unusable end of the bok choy. She returned five minutes later with paper, a stamping ink pad and the pilfered vegetable. “Look, Mom,” she said, and held up a stunner: The bok choy head, refuse to me, had stamped a beautiful blooming rose onto the paper. I discovered what some crafters have long known — the beauties of stamping with food. Part of the pleasure derives from the experimentation, a...
IRONWOOD — A portion of Norrie Park Road washed out on Monday evening as snowmelt continued to flood some Gogebic County roadways. The wash-out was near South Davis Road, according to an Ironwood Public Safety Department report. Norrie Park Road had been closed earlier because of standing water as snow in the swamps from the winter season’s 208-inch accumulation melted and covered the roadway. IPSD officers continued to monitor levels of the Montreal River near Norrie Park. The river app...
BESSEMER — During their closing arguments, prosecuting attorney Richard Adams and defense attorney Rudy Perhalla discussed a variety of options and theories for and against the conviction of Kenneth Wayne Peters, 50, of Bessemer. Peters is on trial for allegedly murdering his 79-year-old wife Ethel Grzena-Peters in August 2012. Prosecution Adams started his closing arguments by writing a list of things that were discussed in the trial; deceit, motive, opportunity, geography, topography, w...
