Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
RALPH ANSAMI
MELLEN, Wis. — The Ashland County Sheriff’s Department is continuing to lead a search for a missing Bergland woman.
On Memorial Day around 4:30 p.m., the Ashland County Communications Center received a report 54-year-old Jody Lynn Newberry had traveled from her home in Bergland to Mellen to attend the Mellen Jam music festival.
Newberry’s sister was concerned because the festival had ended and she had not returned home and didn’t contact the family.
Newberry traveled to the festival with a man, and the two became separated, with the last contact around n...