Tarro will represent Wakefield city council on Ojibway committee

By P.J. GLISSON

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WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield city council voted Monday to appoint mayor pro tempore Amy Tarro as a representative to attend meetings of a regional committee that will work to keep Marenisco’s Ojibway Correctional Institute open under a new threat of state closure.

The action occurred at the end of a slide presentation by Jean Graham, dean of students at Gogebic Community College in Ironwood.

Graham said Ojibway once again is among possible candidates for closure by the Michigan Dept. of Corrections. She said Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba, who serves the st...