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ARBOR VITAE, Wis. — Five fire departments battled a blaze in a building behind Pukall Lumber Company’s main office on Wednesday, according to the Vilas County Sheriff’s Department. The sheriff’s department received a call about the fire at the business on Wisconsin 70 in Arbor Vitae at 3:05 p.m. There was heavy damage to the single building, but the departments were able to keep the fire from spreading. Arbor Vitae Assistant Fire Chief Mike Van Meter said St. Germain, Plum Lake, Woodruff and Minocqua fire departments responded through a mutua...
IRONWOOD — The warm days, cool nights recent weather trend is expected to continue through the Fourth of July and a few days after, according to the National Weather Service in Marquette. There’s little chance of precipitation in the immediate forecast, with a 20 percent probability of a thunderstorm on Thursday, so there shouldn’t be any rain on area parades. Sunday’s forecast is for a 40 percent chance of a thunderstorm, followed by a 60 percent chance on Sunday. The low of 43 degrees for the...
KENOSHA, Wis. — Ken Wiele, formerly of Ironwood, Mich., is a semifinalist in a competition for music educators to be honored at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in January 2014. Wiele, director of bands at Indian Trail High School and Academy in Kenosha, has been nominated for the “Music Educator Award,” a joint effort of The Recording Academy and the Grammy Foundation. He has taught music in the Kenosha Unified School District for more than 30 years. The award, being offered for the first...
BESSEMER— Michigan State University Extension’s 4-H offered a Science Blast for local children Monday afternoon at Bluff View Park in Bessemer. Children took part in six activity stations: creating lava lamps, “chicken clucker,” making catapults, crazy putty and judging age of trees by their rings. Children were credited for attending each station, and then were eligible for a prize after completing a survey. Emily McGrath, new 4-H coordinator, said this was her first big event with 4-H. Mc...
HURLEY — “Make it stronger” was the theme of many speeches during a public hearing on a proposed mining ordinance in Iron County Monday in Hurley. More than one hundred people packed into the Iron County Memorial Building to express support or concerns about the draft ordinance to the Iron County Zoning Committee. Each speaker was given a three-minute limit, and zoning administrator Tom Bergman started the hearing by giving background on how the ordinance came to be. According to Bergman, minin...
HURLEY — Monday afternoon, more than 30 people attended a rally on Silver Street in Hurley to discuss the possible adverse environmental affects that could result if an iron mine were to start up in Upson, Wis. The Penokee Hills Education Project sponsored the “press conference,” led by Frank Koehn, of Ashland, Wis. Five area residents spoke. The event lasted roughly 30 minutes. According to Koehn, while the community is small it has “so much to lose.” He also spoke about having good relations...
NEW YORK (AP) — Months after Superstorm Sandy swamped her little island, the Statue of Liberty will finally welcome visitors again on Independence Day. Sandy made landfall one day after the statue’s 126th birthday, flooding most of the 12 acres she stands upon with water that surged as high as 8 feet. Lady Liberty herself was spared, but the surrounding grounds on Liberty Island took a beating. Railings broke, docks and paving stones were torn up and buildings were flooded. The storm des...
IRONWOOD — There's a tough decision ahead for Michigan legislators on health care, State Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba, said Friday. Speaking at a town hall meeting at Gogebic Community College, he said a special session of the legislature may be called on the Medicaid expansion bill. “We may go back this summer to vote on it,” he said. State Rep. Scott Dianda, D-Calumet, said he opposes the bill and voted against it in its current form because it would require people making under $15,000 to “pay $1,200 out of their pockets” for health ca...
HURLEY— The 105th Apostolic Lutheran Church Convention begins July 10 with a service at 7 p.m. at the Hurley K-12 school, said convention chair Alan Estola. It runs through July 14. From 1,000 to 1,500 people are expected from all over the U.S., as well as Finland, Sweden, Canada, Guatemala and other countries, Estola said. The event was held here last in 1997. When it was here in the 1950s, Dorothy Benjamson, a long-time member of the local Apostolic Lutheran Church in Ironwood, was 10 or 12. About 5,000 people came then, Benjamson said. A...
PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wis. (AP) — Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed a $70 billion, two-year state budget Sunday that he said invests in state education, residents and infrastructure, but that Democrats complained will mostly help the wealthy. The budget approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature includes all of Walker's priorities, including a $650 million income tax cut, expansion of private school vouchers and changes to the state's Medicaid and food stamp programs. Walker signed the b...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — Gogebic Community College President Jim Lorenson said Friday he has noticed a change in Michigan politics on the western Upper Peninsula level. In the past, he said Michigan politicians often didn't work together. The fact that has changed was evident Friday evening when State Sen. Tom Casperson, a Republican from Escanaba, and State Rep. Scott Dianda, a Democrat from Calumet, held a joint town hall meeting at the GCC Lindquist Center. A...
KIMBALL, Wis. — Two Philadelphia men were injured in the two-car collision on U.S. 2, near Valley Road, in Kimball Thursday at 10:31 p.m., according to an Iron County Sheriff's Department release. The two brothers, 22 and 29, were traveling east on U.S. 2 when they swerved to avoid hitting a deer. There was an unconfirmed report that a deer horn was found at the scene. Their vehicle struck a westbound truck driven by a 58-year-old Ontario man. All three men were transported by Beacon Ambulance to Aspirus Grand View Hospital in Ironwood. Because...
IRONWOOD — The Historic Ironwood Theatre is celebrating its 85th anniversary with a galaSunday at 2 p.m. The event features music from the Gogebic Range Concert Band, an "old-time" radio theater presentation by the Denim and Dessert Readers' Theatre, a performance from the Von Drake Dancers, songs from the Lakeland Barbershop Chorus and a performance of the 1920s comedy "Who's on First." Attendees will also watch a showing of the silent movie "The Playhouse," starring Buster Keaton. The film will be accompanied by Father Andrew Rogers on the t...
HURLEY — The Iron County University of Wisconsin-Extension office and Iron County Health Department will have some extra hands to help out this summer, after receiving an intern through the Wisconsin Area Health Education Center. Shruthi Murali, of Rochester, Minn., recently started her internship and will finish in mid-August. So far, Murali is enjoying her time in Iron County. "I love the area and I really love what I am doing," Murali said. The main focus of her internship is on senior c...
HURLEY — A Hurley businessman pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to deliver narcotics as part of a plea agreement Thursday in Iron County Court and he'll be on probation for two years. Daniel F. Rossi, 52, owner and operator of Rossi Wear on Silver Street, and his attorney, Anthony Stella, reached a plea agreement with special prosecuting attorney Susan Sommer, of Phelps, Wis. Originally, Rossi had also been charged with one count of manufacture or deliver of schedule I and II narcotics and one count of possession with i...
BAYFIELD, Wis. (AP) — Every day for 46 years, Vietnam veteran Jeff Savelkoul was haunted by a single thought — that when he came home he left some of his buddies behind. Savelkoul survived a helicopter crash in 1967 that killed almost everyone on board, including his best friend, Lance Cpl. Merlin R. Allen of Bayfield. For decades the Marines' remains lay undiscovered, but a recovery team excavated the crash site last year and found Allen's remains. Now, almost 46 years to the day Allen was kil...
IRONWOOD — Changes are coming for this year's Gogebic-Iron County Airport Fly-In, slated for Saturday, Aug. 24. “We are hoping for better weather with the earlier date,” said Fly-In committee chair Donna Scorse. Welcoming ceremonies begin at 10 a.m. This year there will be four aircrafts offering free plane rides to youth aged 8 to 17, accompanied by a parent or guardian, and another aircraft will be available for younger children with parents to fly for a small fee. This year's event will...
