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Articles from the May 6, 2013 edition


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  • Art show

    Katie Perttunen|May 6, 2013

    IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Gogebic Community College’s Art Space displayed student art Friday and Saturday, with 12 artists showing their work. The show will be open through graduation on Thursday. Kaite Anderson, a graphic communications student, has several pieces in the showing. “Drawings are about the emotions that we hide,” Anderson said. Photography is her favorite medium because she likes the challenge. “I like to take something broken, like an old building, and make it beautiful,” she said An...

  • Benefit concert raises money for Ironwood animal shelter

    Katie Perttunen|May 6, 2013

    IRONWOOD — Tim Mesun played his third benefit for HOPE Animal Shelter at Theatre North Saturday evening. It was the 12th benefit he has played in his career. He was joined on stage by Matt Agee in a special performance by “La Fratelli Azzuri,” or “The Blues Brothers,” in English. “I really enjoy jazz and blues, and I am performing five new songs tonight,” Mesun said. His last benefit for HOPE raised $400. His new songs included, “Destination,” and “Canto di Ringraziamento,” wh...

  • Sunday Lake's water levels recede

    Katie Perttunen|May 6, 2013

    WAKEFIELD — Water levels of Sunday Lake fell 2 feet by Saturday, then another 2 to 3 inches by Sunday, said Scott Gronert of Kleiman Pump and Well Drilling of Iron Mountain. The company has been monitoring water levels around the clock after pumping water out of the lake for two days, said Gronert. M-28 was closed during the pumping. The highway was open over the weekend. “If the water starts to come up again, we will call the city and the Michigan Department of Transportation to get the road closed again,” said Gronert. It would take betwe...

  • Even with reams of data, flood-predicting is tough

    May 6, 2013

    FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Perched in a boat drifting slowly along the Red River, Dan Thomas kept one eye on a laptop and the other on a $60,000 piece of floating hardware that beamed sound waves deep into the flooding river. As the signal bounced off water molecules and returned, the laptop sorted it into data on the river’s depth and speed and transmitted it instantly to the National Weather Service. Once there, the work by the U.S. Geological Survey’s water expert became part of the data stew the w...

  • Cooler weather aids fight against California wildfire

    May 6, 2013

    CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — Cool, moist air moving into Southern California on Sunday helped firefighters build containment lines around a huge wildfire burning through coastal mountains. Fire crews took advantage of improved conditions as the high winds and hot, dry air of recent days were replaced by the normal Pacific air, significantly reducing fire activity. The 44-square-mile blaze at the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains was 60 percent surrounded Sunday morning. Full containment w...

  • Glimpse of 1960s fallout shelter on view in Wisconsin

    May 6, 2013

    NEENAH, Wis. (AP) — When Ken Zwick and Carol Hollar-Zwick bought their Neenah home in 1999, they knew the backyard contained an underground fallout shelter built during the height of the Cold War. What they didn’t know — and wouldn’t discover until they ventured into the shelter more than a decade later — was the bunker was fully stocked with food and survival supplies from 1960 by the previous homeowner. “We assumed it was just this empty space,” Hollar-Zwick said. When the Zwicks unlock...

  • Dorothy F. Bessen

    May 6, 2013

    TWO RIVERS, Wis. — Dorothy F. Bessen, 88, of Ewen, Mich., passed away Jan. 5, 2013, in Two Rivers. She was born on Dec. 25, 1924, to the late Harry and Beatrice (Carr) Albright. Dorothy attended Ewen High School, graduating in 1942, and attended secretary school in Duluth, Minn. She married Ernest Bessen in 1945 and they made their home on numerous Army bases until settling down in Ewen. Dorothy became the choir director of the famous Sacred Heart Singers. She worked for the Ewen-Trout Creek School District as a bus driver for 20 years, w...