Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Iron officials search for fix to road funding issues

By RICHARD JENKINS

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HURLEY — Iron County and local officials took part in a statewide “Turnout for Transportation” meeting Thursday night to discuss the lack of adequate road funding in Wisconsin. Meetings happened simultaneously in every county in the state.

Iron County Highway Commissioner Mike Swartz said a meeting like this had never been done before and indicated how serious the state’s road funding problem is.

After a short video featuring representatives that sponsored the meeting — including the Wisconsin Counties Association, the League of Wisconsin Municipa...