Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By JAN TUCKER
ONTONAGON — When the village of Ontonagon was named by former Gov. Rick Synder a Rising Tide Community, a key to development was revitalization of the village’s Downtown Development Authority. The original Ontonagon DDA plan was approved in the 1980s and expires in 2020. The DDA worked with a Rising Tide Fellow in Ontonagon to amend the plan for another 30 years.
John Iacoangeli of Beckett and Raeder answered questions about the new plan at a public meeting of the village council Monday. He said the plan identifies more than $14 million in projects which incl...