Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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HURLEY — The Hurley School Board Monday witnessed the presentation of a plaque from the Paavo Nurmi Marathon, represented by Gerry Traczyk and Patricia Kangas, to the Hurley Education Association president Monica Kolpin. “We couldn’t do it without your help,” said Traczyk. School board officers were elected: Joseph Simonich, president; David Pajula, vice president, Mike Fontecchio, treasurer, and Joel Enking, clerk. Many high school students helped with placing and removing sandbags during the recent flooding, said principal Jeff Gulan,...
WAKEFIELD — AECOM Project Engineer Matt Treado and Principal Engineer Mike Pond addressed the issues and concerns of the sanitary sewer system with the Wakefield City Council members and area residents at the Monday evening council meeting. According to Pond, on April 28 AECOM received calls of flooding at the main lift station in Wakefield and after some investigating they found the city was receiving flooding into the sanitary sewer system which was impacting the flow of the sanitary sewer to the lift station. Once they were able to i...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Local residents celebrated Mother’s Day with a tradition spanning more than 20 years at the Ironwood Township Hall on Sunday. The Ironwood Township Volunteer Fire Department hosted its annual Mother’s Day Brunch, with hundreds of people dining on a variety of food, including chicken, mashed potatoes, breakfast foods and more. “Things were really good,” said Chief Jamie Peite. “We had a lot of people come to eat.” According to department members, the event was quite popular...
KIMBALL, Wis. — For more than 25 years, local residents have dined on pie while searching for hidden treasures during the annual Kimball Homemakers’ Rummage and Pie Social at the Kimball Community Center The tradition continued on Saturday with more than 100 people looking through items and dining on homemade pie. According to group member Sandy Brunello, the event is very popular each year, with many repeat customers bringing their support. “People like it because it’s very affordable,” Brunell...
MERCER, Wis. — The Mercer School’s Advanced Placement European History class spent nine days in Italy in mid-April. The kids, Tanner Hiller, Danielle Miheve, Brian Kich, Lucas Huybrecht and John Michael Klopatek, visited many historical buildings, saw classic pieces of art and experienced Italian culture. The group spent two days in Venice, where they visited the Doge’s Palace, visited St. Mark’s Cathedral and went to the top of the clock tower. The group went for a gondola ride, and of course,...
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — The Lindquist Student Center gym was filled to the rafters with pride and excitement Friday night as Gogebic Community College's class of 2013 celebrated its graduation ceremony. The college conferred 289 certificates and degrees. GCC President James Lorenson welcomed the students and told them that celebrating their success at graduation is the high point of the academic year. GCC Board of Trustees Chairman John Lupino addressed the students about their future. He shared a...
IRONWOOD — The Friends of the Carnegie Library will open their book sale to the general public this morning at 7:30 at the Memorial Building. “The book sales are twice a year, and it takes year-round organizing,” said Friends board member Carol Erickson. “The books are all donated from people in the community.” The book sale started Friday, but was open just for members of the Friends of the Carnegie Library. Money raised from the sale has gone to replace library computers, fix the air condi...
With wet weather and cooler temperatures expected to hit the area over the weekend, flood watch continues to take place in both Gogebic and Iron counties. According to the National Weather Service in Marquette, today's forecast calls for a 20 percent chance of rain and snow showers, with highs in lower 40s. Temperatures are expected to stay cool throughout the weekend, with a 20 percent chance of rain and snow showers on Sunday morning. According to a spokesman at NWS, the snow showers will...
IRONWOOD — The Luther L. Wright High School show choir Accent! will perform today and Saturday with shows at 6 and 8 p.m. both nights at Theatre North in Ironwood. Accent’s theme for this year’s show is “Accent! Road Trip.” “There’s a lot of fun music covering a wide variety of eras,” director Denise Woodward said, “such as ‘Eye of the Tiger,’ ‘September’ and several medleys bringing a large variety of music.” Some of the students have helped with choreography for the show, including Jourdyn...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeanne Cooper, the enduring soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on “The Young and the Restless,” has died. She was 84. Cooper died Wednesday morning in her sleep, her son the actor Corbin Bernsen wrote on Facebook. The family confirmed the death to CBS, according to a network spokeswoman. She was in a Los Angeles-area hospital, according to Bernsen’s spokesman, Charles Sherman, who said the cause of death was not immedia...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Prosecutors said Thursday they may seek the death penalty against Ariel Castro, the man accused of imprisoning three women at his home for a decade, as police charged that he impregnated one of his captives at least five times and made her miscarry by starving her and punching her in the belly. The horrific allegations were contained in a police report that also said another one of the women, Amanda Berry, was forced to give birth in a plastic kiddie pool. Cuyahoga County p...
NEW YORK (AP) — When Kate Hudson first burst onto the scene with the movie “Almost Famous,” her uncanny resemblance to her mother Goldie Hawn had everybody talking. Hudson didn’t see it. But now that she’s a mother herself — of two sons, Rider and Bingham — the 34-year-old actress says she treasures the comparison. The mother-daughter pair — Hawn an Oscar winner for “Cactus Flower” and Hudson a nominee for “Almost Famous” — has never acted together, but they teamed up for an Almay ad for Mothe...
WHITE PINE — Lowell and Peggy Elmblad joined thousands of people more than five years ago who have heard the verdict of cancer. As Lowell was in the treatment and recovery stage, the couple discussed something they wanted to do for the Ontonagon County Cancer Association which had helped them financially with some of the cancer bills. Lowell and Peggy are great bowling enthusiasts and thought they could combine bowling and a benefit. Out of that thinking came the Bowling for the Cure benefit, w...
MERCER, Wis. — Mercer resident Jeff Richter’s hobby started small. He began taking photographs, which later developed into videos and has had his work featured in a book. But now, his hobby has reached new heights, a national television show. Richter will appear on the PBS show, “Nature” in an episode “The Private Life of Deer,” airing tonight at 7 p.m. Richter’s work specifically focuses on a certain type of deer, the albino White Tail. “I had never seen one before, and when I opened a galler...
NEW YORK (AP) — Lay’s potato chips are getting cheesier. Fans voted to keep the potato chip maker’s Cheesy Garlic Bread flavor on store shelves for at least the end of the year as part of the company’s nearly yearlong promotion that solicited customers’ flavor ideas. Cheesy Garlic Bread beat out two other fan-submitted flavors: a maple-syrup tasting chicken & waffles and Sriracha, which tastes like the hot sauce often used in Thai dishes. Karen Weber-Mendham, a children’s librarian from Land O...
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...
