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Articles from the April 18, 2017 edition


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  • Coleman makes case regarding city attorney

    Ian Minielly|Apr 18, 2017

    By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER - The Bessemer City Council came together in council's chamber Monday to discuss regular city business with a condensed agenda. The council approved the expenditure of $83, 192 dollars to pay the bills before Rob Coleman elected to read his correspondence publicly for addition to the record. Coleman reminded the room he was interrupted in the last meeting when he tried to speak by Kathy Whitburn and John Frello, which Coleman assumed was due...

  • Ontonagon robotics team travels to St. Louis

    Apr 18, 2017

    By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - The fledging Ontonagon Area High School Robotics team has qualified to compete in the World Robotics competition in St. Louis Missouri. Team coaches and members attended the Ontonagon Area Board of Education meeting Monday to explain funding efforts are now underway and to obtain permission for competing team members for the overnight trip. The team qualified for the World Championships by its performance at State in Saginaw, April 12-15. Coach...

  • Township board votes to stick with road plan

    Apr 18, 2017

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Ironwood Township will continue to repair its roads according to its road plan after the board of trustees decided Monday not to divert money from this year’s repair fund for extra paving work on Lake Road at Little Girl’s Point. “I think we should stay with our road plan, I hate to say it. I feel for them out there, I really do, but it’s going to (be) better than it is — better than it was before the flood — with the 18 culvert repairs and the patching” Clerk Mary Segalin sa...

  • Community calendar

    Apr 18, 2017

    Tuesday, April 18 Friends of the Ironwood Carnegie Library, 9:30 a.m., library, Ironwood. New members welcome. Pickleball, 10 a.m. to noon, Ironwood Memorial Building. Iron-Gogebic Integrated Family Services, 9-10:30 a.m., Iron County Courthouse, Hurley. 906-663-4045 or 715-561-2191. Wisconsin Veterans Employment Services Representative, 9-11:30 a.m., veterans service office, Hurley. 715-392-7808. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Blood Pressure Screening, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., with...

  • Lorraine A. Hall

    Apr 18, 2017

    TOMAHAWK, Wis. - Lorraine A. Hall, 94, of Mercer, died Thursday morning, April 13, 2017, at Golden Living Center in Tomahawk. The former Lorraine Sutherland was born Aug. 24, 1922, in Cedar River, Mich., daughter of the late Turi and Pearl (Parrett) Sutherland. She came to Morse, Wis., as a baby with her parents and spent her youth and attended school in the area. She graduated from Mellen High School with the Class of 1940. After graduation, she was employed as office operator by Wisconsin...

  • Forrest C. Hill

    Apr 18, 2017

    MCFARLAND, Mich. - Forrest C. Hill, 67, of McFarland, died peacefully Friday, April 14, 2017, at his home, with his family by his side and under the care of U.P. Health System Home Care & Hospice. He was born June 10, 1949, in Highland Park, a son of the late Herman O. and Laura J. (Perham) Hill and was raised in the Upper Peninsula. On May 1, 1971, he married Barbara Lynn Codd in Ewen. Forrest worked in the automobile industry in various capacities for A.O. Smith and Tower International...

  • Donald D. Veda

    Apr 18, 2017

    RAMSAY, Mich. — A celebration of life for Donald D. Veda, 86, a long-time resident of Ramsay, who died Saturday, March 11, 2017, will be held Saturday, April 22, at 11 a.m., preceded by visitation at 10 a.m., at the Wakefield Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9084. Luncheon will follow the American flag presentation. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the National Arbor Day Foundation, 888-448-7337 or arborday.org. Jerald Rocco of Lakeside Memorial Chapel Inc., in Wakefield, is assisting the family....