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Ironwood hires new K-12 principal

By RICHARD JENKINS

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IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area Schools has a new K-12 principal after the district’s board of education voted to hire Melissa Nigh Monday.

Nigh was a principal in Mellen, Wis., from 2008-13, according to Ironwood superintendent Travis Powell, before joining the faculty at Northland College in Ashland.

“Her main role there was helping train pre-service teachers. So in my former capacity as an elementary principal, I worked closely with Mrs. Nigh in a couple of different capacities,” Powell told the Daily Globe after the meeting. “One, I was an educat...