Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By P.J. GLISSON
WAKEFIELD — At the Monday meeting of the Wakefield planning commission, city manager Richard Brackney gave members an assignment of sorts.
As a means of spurring a brainstorm, he asked members to ponder the following three questions:
Why would you have a house in Wakefield?
Why would you have a business in Wakefield?
What do you like about Wakefield’s recreational options?
Specifically, he asked, what are the pros and cons of each category?
Brackney pointed out that commission member Jim Anderson has said previously that the downtown suffers from a lack...