Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Wisconsin company offers to buy former Ojibway site

By PAMELA JANSSON

[email protected]

MARENISCO TOWNSHIP — A new marijuana facility might find a home in Marenisco Township if the state of Michigan agrees to sell land that once housed the former Ojibway Correctional Facility.

Township supervisor Bruce Mahler reported the news to The Globe on Sept. 27.

He said that representatives of Whispering Cedar LLC of Wisconsin gave a presentation of their plans during a Sept. 23 meeting of the Marenisco Township Board of Trustees.

In mid-September, they made an offer for an undisclosed sum to the state.

“They would like to open a marijuana grow...