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Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD — The snow total at noon on Tuesday in Ironwood from the most recent blanketing stood at about a foot, a day before spring officially arrived. The 24-hour snow total to 7 a.m. Tuesday in Ironwood was 8.5 inches, but it snowed heavily after that through about 1 p.m., in the inch-an-hour range. The season’s snow total was an even 150 inches up to 7 a.m. Tuesday. It was fluffy, light, lake-effect snow and the sun occasionally peeked from the clouds. Around 1 p.m., the snow lifted and the sky turned blue. Area ski hills didn’t need the a...
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Cathy Stepp said Monday Chippewa tribes in northern Wisconsin are setting spearing levels that will mean more one-walleye lakes for sport anglers. As a result, the WDNR will withhold funds previously paid to the tribe. For the tribal ceded territory covering the northern third of the state, a DNR analysis indicates out of 535 lakes named for tribal harvests, 197 have been designated by the tribe at a level that will result in one-walleye daily bag limits for anglers. While most lakes in Iron C...
HURLEY — Alex Marciniak will present a piano concert to benefit the Hurley Education Foundation Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. in the Hurley K-12 School auditorium. The concert will include the Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach, 30 variations on an aria theme in G Major. While Marciniak, a instructor of speech, music and other fine arts at Gogebic Community College, has performed many of the variations in concert before, this is the first time he has presented the entire work. “It’s very beaut...
IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area School Board of Education accepted a bid to install a keyless entry system during a meeting on Monday at Luther L. Wright School in Ironwood. Three bids were submitted for the project, and the board selected the lowest bid from Northstar Electronics in Ironwood. The cost is $8,842.17 and includes installing systems to the the entrance at Sleight Elementary and the main and West Pabst Street entrances at LLW. According to superintendent Tim Kolesar, the system includes a buzzer, allowing a potential visitor to n...
HURLEY — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed 2013-’14 school budget isn’t favorable to the Hurley School District, according to district administrator Chris Patritto. In fact, Patritto told the school board Monday that the district faces a $222,000 deficit for the next school year, worst case scenario, under the state budget, which will be approved in July. The proposed state budget favors voucher programs for poorly performing big city schools and private schools, but doesn’t do anything for Hurley, said Patritto, who likened the situation...
KIMBALL, Wis. — Local Finlanders, and non-Finnish people alike, gathered at Little Finland on Sunday for the annual dance dedicated to St. Urho’s Day. St. Urho’s Day takes place on March 16 and is a Finnish holiday. The legend of St. Urho says that he chased grasshoppers out of ancient Finland to save the grape crop and the jobs of the Finnish vineyard workers. Each year, people wear purple to celebrate his day. At Little Finland, the annual dance has been taking place for many years, but as to...
KIMBALL, Wis. — A benefit dinner drew scores of supporters for Mike Tijan in his fight against multiple myeloma Saturday at the Kimball Community Center. Tijan has been battling the disease for eight years, and is now facing a stem cell transplant. His brother Andy is a blood match. Their sister, Teresa Vitovksy, said Mike has been undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments to decrease his cancer levels. She said that when Mike is well enough for the procedure, he and Andy will travel to the Mayo Clinic for the stem cell transplant. T...
IRONWOOD — The Downtown Art Place held an open house Saturday, in conjunction with the Take 3 concert at the Ironwood Theatre. The open house was the second for the Downtown Art Place. Annette Burchell said the event was intended to attract visitors to the DAP and also to showcase new handicapped-accessible restrooms. “Through donations we were able to construct the two restrooms, which will be shared with the Ironwood Theatre,” she said. The open house served as a membership drive for DAP,...
MERCER, Wis. — Mercer resident Jane Zillmer has been selected as a semifinalist for the 2013 American Quilter’s Society QuiltWeek show in Paducah, Ky., April 24-27. Her quilt, “Oh, Mexico Beach,” along with 401 others, was chosen to go on display and will be judged. Winners will receive first, second or third prizes in 15 different categories, along with nine overall awards being given. The show is expected to draw more than 30,000 people, and quilts were entered from 46 states and 11 countri...
IRONWOOD — The city of Ironwood received a “clean opinion” in the 2011-12 audit that was reviewed by the city commission in a work session on Monday. Tony Pollack, of Joki, Makela, Pollack and Ahonen, reviewed the 100-plus-page audit for the one-year period extending to July 1, 2012. A clean opinion is the best type of report an audited municipality may receive from an auditing firm. Pollack said there was a $1,264,000 general fund balance and it had increased $219,000 during the fiscal year, a good sign. The audit was somewhat unusual in th...
WATERSMEET — The Lac Vieux Desert Tribe presented its semi-annual revenue sharing funds to Watersmeet Township and Watersmeet Township School officials Friday afternoon at the casino. The funds, also known as 2 percent funds, are presented to local units of government twice a year as part of 1994 compact with the state, according to tribal board vice chair and 2 percent committee member Joette Pete-Baldwin. On Friday, the township received a check for $158,235. The school’s check was for $22,500. According to Pete-Baldwin, any group, thr...
HURLEY — The Iron County Finance Committee approved financial help for the Iron County Memorial Building Thursday. In February, members of the Hurley American Legion came before the committee to ask for help in paying utility bills for the building. The building is owned by the county, but the American Legion leases it, and with declining numbers in bowling leagues, the Legion said it needed help in finding alternative revenues. Legion members asked for $4,000 to get the club through September....
IRONWOOD — State Rep. Scott Dianda, D-Calumet, said he’s not buying the Department of Natural Resources’ plan to raise hunting and fishing licenses. According to the DNR, most licenses would increase substantially. Deer licenses would be hiked from $15 to $20, bear licenses would increase from $15 to $25 and non-resident fishing licenses would be increased from $42 to $75, according to a DNR summary of the proposed changes that’s posted online. Also, the popular 24-hour fishing license would more than double, from $7 to $15. Dianda said he...
IRONWOOD — An Ironwood woman gave out her bank account number in an apparent scam attempt on Thursday, according to an Ironwood Public Safety Department report. The 72-year-old woman received a telephone solicitation call from a company called “Health Group” and in talking with the company, she gave out the number, according to the IPSD report. When the woman went to the Associated Bank in Hurley, bank employees tried calling the number that the company had left with the woman, but the operator on the other end of the phone hung up on the b...
HURLEY — Second and third grade students in Kristin Kolesar’s class at the Hurley K-12 School are now authors, penning a book on the history of the Titanic. On Wednesday, students read and signed copies of the book, “Journeys on the Titanic,” for parents and grandparents at the school to celebrate it being published. The book consists of fictional stories each student wrote about a passenger on the ship. The stories highlight the passengers’ trips from Southampton, England, to New York in A...
VATICAN CITY — The world has a new pope, and the effects are being felt all the way from the Vatican to the Gogebic Range. The general emotion felt by local priests is excitement at the announcement of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio being elected pope Wednesday afternoon. He is from Buenos Aires and will be known as Pope Francis I. “I am very excited about this,” the Rev. Frank Kordek, of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Hurley, said. “He is a man who lives simply, living in an apartment,...
BESSEMER — Three re-appointments to the Community Mental Health Authority Board and a new appointment were approved by the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday. The previous terms expired March 31. Reappointed were Margaret Rayner, Robert Lynn and Ken Wegmeyer, all of the Ironwood area. All three indicated to Gogebic County Community Mental Health officials that they would like to be reappointed to the three-year terms on the board. The new appointee is former Gogebic County sheriff and county board member Donald Pezzetti, of W...
IRONWOOD — If Michigan conducts a wolf hunt, it won’t be Upper Peninsula-wide. That’s what 272 people attending a Department of Natural Resources meeting on wolf management learned Tuesday at Gogebic Community College. Heavy snow throughout the day held the crowd down somewhat. Adam Bump, a DNR bear and furbearer specialist, said another certainty regarding a potential hunt is dogs wouldn’t be allowed, but trapping would be a possibility. It was a relatively quiet two-hour meeting in the gym...
IRONWOOD — Proceeds from a city of Ironwood timber sale will be used for a local match in a grant application for a city park. City manager Scott Erickson told the city commission Monday the city received $32,000 from the timber sale. He praised retired U.S. Forest Service employee Marion True, of Ironwood, for helping the city out with the timber sale and said another one will be conducted next winter. The commission on Monday agreed to apply for Department of Natural Resources grants of $60,000 apiece for Longyear and Curry parks after holdin...
MADISON, Wis. — State Sen. Robert Jauch questioned why Gov. Scott Walker chose to sign Wisconsin’s new mining bill on Monday so far from the counties that would be affected by a Gogebic Taconite mine. Walker signed the controversial mining bill Monday in Rhinelander and Milwaukee, “neither of which are located near the Penokee Mountain range,” Jauch pointed out. The Assembly overwhelmingly passed the bill last week, sending it to Walker for his signature. Jauch, D-Poplar, noted late last week that the Oneida County Board of Supervisors last ye...
IRONWOOD — U.S. Rep. Dan Benishek, R-Crystal Falls, is looking forward to his second term in Congress, despite a rocky start with the uncertainty surrounding federal budget cuts and a looming government shutdown. “I don’t really see this as a Democrat or Republican thing,” Benishek told the Daily Globe in an interview Monday afternoon. “The House has voted on a few things, but the Senate hasn’t passed a budget in four years. That’s no way to plan anything. We’re governing from crisis to crisi...
IRONWOOD — The city of Ironwood is seeking to recoup some of the money it stands to lose in a $60,000 loan that was approved in 2010 for a new business that never got of the ground. The city commission agreed Monday to try to sell equipment it has received from the ill-fated loan to Entree and Companions, a start-up company that was associated with Old World Meats. Entree and Companions, a catering and food business, went out of business after repaying only about $1,000 on the $60,000 loan obtained through the city’s revolving loan fund, cit...
IRONWOOD — Concerns about grant funding for ice-making equipment at the Patrick O’Donnell Civic Center and the Gogebic County Fair were heard by State Rep. Scott Dianda, D-Calumet, Saturday. Dianda fielded questions at a town hall meeting at Mike’s Restaurant on Cloverland Drive. Brian Roehm, manager of the civic center, told Dianda the Ironwood City Commission last Monday approved a $275,000 bond for a $500,000 civic center project. Roehm explained the problem in seeking grant money for the c...
IRONWOOD – Gogebic-Iron Marine Corps League Detachment 1133 held a spaghetti dinner Sunday at the Breakwater in Ironwood to benefit the D.J. Jacobetti Home for Veterans in Marquette and the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King. Detachment Commandant Gary Kusz said the money raised is used to help fund activities for the veterans at the two facilities. Kusz said the fundraiser has been taking place for around 10 years. He said the idea is to help contribute to the daily routines at the two homes a...
IRONWOOD — The Downtown Art Place, a newly formed community art center in Ironwood, has scheduled a number of upcoming events. A St. Patrick’s Day-themed open house is set for next Saturday from 5:30-7:30 p.m., and after-school art classes for middle and high school students begin March 25. The open house is prior to the Take 3 show at the Historic Ironwood Theatre, and will continue during intermission of the show. Note cards and green-themed art will be on display and will be available for purchase. The event will also showcase new handicappe...
