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Gogebic County to sponsor Phase 3 of trail project

By RALPH ANSAMI

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BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners agreed Wednesday to sponsor a Michigan Department of Natural Resources Trust Fund grant application for the third phase of the Iron Belle non-motorized trail project, from Bessemer to Ramsay.

The board voted 6-0 to sponsor the grant, after the Michigan Western Gateway Trail Authority agreed to pay the county the $29,566 that is owed for the second phase of the project, from Ironwood to Bessemer.

About 20 people attended Wednesday’s county board meeting to support the third phase of the trail project...