Local schools to get full-time law enforcement officer

By P.J. GLISSON

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BESSEMER — A full-time sheriff’s deputy now will be stationed within schools in Bessemer, Wakefield and Watersmeet.

“We are starting our school resource officer program in the schools,” said Sheriff Ross Solberg at a committee meeting of the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners last week.

During the Finance, Budgeting and Auditing Committee, Solberg said that Deputy Adam Graser has been assigned to the new post.

The sheriff later told The Globe that Graser will work a 40-hour week by floating among the Watersmeet K-12 School, the Wakefield-Marenisco K-1...