Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By P.J. GLISSON
WAKEFIELD - Members of the Wakefield city council and planning commission met in a Wednesday workshop to learn how an updated master plan could help them to counteract the dwindling population that many U.P. towns experience.
Presenting the evidence were Scott MacInnes, northern field consultant for the Michigan Municipal League, and Bessemer city manager Charly Loper.
According to Wakefield city manager Richard Brackney, Wakefield's master plan has not been updated since 2000.
Loper said Bessemer's master plan was updated recently after city officials w...