Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Airport terminal plans move forward

By TOM LAVENTURE

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IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — With air terminal modification bids due in a week the work to renovate the Gogebic-Iron County Airport to better handle an increase in passengers will be underway before the year is out.

The renovations will expand the current holding area seating from 27 to 46, according to airport manager Michael Harma at the airport board meeting on Monday. The seating is required as Denver Air Connection flights are now boarding in excess of 30 passengers on Chicago flights and nearly as many to Minneapolis.

The terminal modifications are a...