Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Ironwood Carnegie Library director Lynne Wiercinski, right, talks about the original plans for the library's community center grant application at an informational meeting held at the library Monday afternoon. From left are library board trustee Pam Johnson, Ironwood Mayor and board member Kim Corcoran, and board vice-president Wendy Hicks.
By MEGAN HUGHES
IRONWOOD - The Ironwood Carnegie Library is planning for a new future after receiving a $750,000 grant from the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity.
The library had applied for a $2.5 million grant in 2023, according to library director Lynne Wiercinski, with plans to add approximately 5,000 square feet to the library.
The state received far more applications than it had planned, said Wiercinski, resulting in more grants being distributed, but with lower amounts of funds for each, and with this change, so to are the Carnegie's plans for...
