Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD — Ironwood residents will likely vote in November on a special 10-year, $2 million millage to fund street improvements. The city commission voted 5-0 on Monday to approve referendum language seeking to authorize levying two mills per year for street projects. The ballot language now goes to Gogebic County Clerk Gerry Pelissero for approval. The proposal needed to be submitted to the county clerk's office by Aug. 27. City manager Scott Erickson said not every street that needs work would be repaired under the special millage, but s...
BESSEMER — Bessemer School Board received district administrator Mark Johnson's resignation letter late Sunday night, effective June 30. Board President Robert Berg read the letter to the crowd at Monday evening's school board meeting. In the letter, Johnson gave his appreciation for the board, staff, families, and the community. Johnson said that as a team, the school surpassed the goal of making Bessemer the best school district in the western Upper Peninsula. He said it had been an honor to work with such dedicated professionals. The b...
IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area School Board of Education approved the hiring of an elementary principal during Monday's meeting at Luther L. Wright School in Ironwood. The board approved the hiring of Nicholas Steinmetz, of St. Clair Shores, pending results from a background check of possible criminal history. "We're looking forward to working with him," superintendent Tim Kolesar said. Safe Routes Ian Shackleford, of the Safe Routes to School committee, presented findings from a student-parent su...
ONTONAGON — State Sen.Tom Casperson (R-Escanaba) urged Ontonagon Village Council members and a group of residents attending the council's session Monday, to focus on how state policies are relevant to the community. “Look at state policy and how they affect your own land. We should all be able to use our land for recreation,” Casperson said. He cautioned that when the state works with federal agencies, often "the restrictive use of land creeps into the policy.” He cited the attempt to enact a...
IRONWOOD — The 21st annual Festival Ironwood drew large crowds from Wednesday through Sunday. An appreciative crowd enjoyed the Lowell Street Band Saturday evening, punctuating the end of the festival. The overflow of listeners spilled out of the tent in Depot Park onto, of all things, Lowell Street, which was blocked off for the event. Different types of music were offered for festival-goers to enjoy, from polka to bluegrass, to country, and rock and roll. On Saturday, there were twice as m...
MERCER, Wis. — Mercer Woods and Blooms Garden Club will host a public tour of private gardens on Saturday, July 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is the eighth year of the tour, said Jan Peterson, chairperson of the garden club. This year's tour will include the Mercer Community Garden, adjacent to the Haines Civic Building, which is new this year. The Mercer School, Mercer Senior Center and the food pantry are raising vegetables and herbs there for educational purposes, as well as for c...
SAN FRANCISCO — Bessemer native Capt. Jay Jewess retired from the U.S. Coast Guard in May. He was the deputy sector commander in the USCG's San Francisco sector, which covers more than 2,500 miles of shoreline within the San Francisco Bay and its tributaries. A ceremony celebrating his career was held on Yerba Buena Island on May 24. Nearly 500 people attended, said Yoko Jewess, Jay Jewess' mother. “I'm very proud,” she said. Eric Jewess, Jay Jewess' brother, is also retired from the Coast Guard and lives in Mississippi, where he works for t...
A group calling itself the Penokee Defenders has set up a fund to support its Website and provide a legal defense fund for Katie (Krow) Kloth, of Stevens Point, who is charged in connection with a protest at the planned Gogebic-Taconite mine. A $5,000 signature bond was set in Iron County Court Monday for Kloth, 26, who faces charges related to a heated June 11 confrontation at the site of the proposed iron mine near Upson. Kloth is charged with felony robbery and three misdemeanors related to the disturbance with G-Tac employees. The criminal...
MELLEN, Wis. — The North Country Trail Association-Heritage Chapter is seeking volunteers to help build tread on five new miles of trail in the Copper Falls State Park this weekend. The group will also perform trail maintenance on existing sections of the trail in the Uller and Wren Falls sections. The North Country Trail is being developed as the longest national scenic trail, stretching 4,600 miles from New York to North Dakota, with 225 of those miles in Wisconsin. “What is significant about this trail is that it is built by volunteers,” sai...
IRONWOOD — Chris Hillier arrived at Festival Ironwood in the Depot Park on Thursday afternoon, ending a 924-mile hike from Detroit. In December, Gov. Rick Snyder announced he was going to make Michigan the trails mecca of the Midwest, and wanted a non-motorized trail from Belle Isle in Detroit to Ironwood. The trail hasn’t been officially named yet, but Hillier said he will call it the Ironwood Trail, because he has been dreaming of reaching Ironwood for 11 weeks. Hillier is the first to mak...
IRONWOOD — Aspirus Grand View Hospital held Senior Day on Thursday, serving a light lunch and providing education on pertinent health topics. Seventeen people attended. AGVH corporate operations officer Paula Chasermside greeted the guests, telling them, “It is your loyalty that allows us to continue to grow, advance, and provide services.” AGVH was founded in 1923 as a tuberculosis sanitorium, and in the 1950s it began to offer surgical services. Currently, AGVH is a fully accredited criti...
DETROIT (AP) — Once the very symbol of American industrial might, Detroit became the biggest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy Thursday, its finances ravaged and its neighborhoods hollowed out by a long, slow decline in population and auto manufacturing. The filing, which had been feared for months, put the city on an uncertain course that could mean laying off municipal employees, selling off assets, raising fees and scaling back basic services such as trash collection and snow plowing, which h...
IRONWOOD — The cause of a Tuesday night fire that destroyed an unoccupied house in Ironwood is under investigation. Ironwood Public Safety Department fire officer Brandon Snyder is in charge of the investigation of the fire on Scott Street, near the Montreal River, about two blocks from the Knights of Columbus hall. Around 10:35 p.m. Tuesday, a neighbor, Keith Lehto, reported seeing sparks coming from the house next to his. According to an IPSD report, no one was living in the house that is a...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An American Indian child at the center of a custody suit that went to the U.S. Supreme Court should be returned to the Charleston-area couple seeking to adopt her, South Carolina’s highest court ruled on Wednesday. In a 3-2 decision, the state Supreme Court ruled that Matt and Melanie Capobianco are the only party properly seeking to adopt the 3-year-old girl named Veronica in South Carolina and ordered a Family Court to finalize the couple’s adoption. “We are thrille...
BESSEMER— Jane and Mark Bale have been providing foster care for 32 years, in addition to raising two daughters, now aged 30 and 27. This May they took on a new task for the state of Michigan, recruiting and retaining foster families in Gogebic and Ontonagon counties. There are 650,000 children in foster care in the U.S., said Mark Bale. To become foster parents, people must undergo 24 hours of training, as well as have their homes pass inspections by the department of human services for s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate stepped away from the brink of a meltdown on Tuesday, clearing the way for confirmation of several of President Barack Obama’s nominees long blocked by Republicans, agreeing to quick action on unnamed others and finessing a Democratic threat to overturn historic rules that protect minority-party rights. “Nobody wants to come to Armageddon here,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat whose talks with Arizona Republican John McCain were critical in avoiding a...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — “Glee” actor Cory Monteith died of an overdose of heroin and alcohol, the British Columbia coroner’s office said Tuesday. “There is no evidence to suggest Mr. Monteith’s death was anything other than a most tragic accident,” the office said in a statement. The 31-year-old was found dead in his Vancouver, British Columbia, hotel room on Saturday, after he didn’t check out on time. He was believed to be alone when he died. Police said Monteith had been out wi...
