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  • Vintage snowmobiles tour Iron County for memorial ride

    Feb 12, 2018

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] GILE, Wis. - Vintage snowmobile enthusiasts came together for a good cause Saturday, taking part in the sixth annual Dan Tomlanovich Memorial Vintage Ride. Organized by the North Country Relic Riders, the roughly 30-mile ride started in Gile and included stops at bars in Oma and Iron Belt before returning to Gile. There was also a brief stop on the Gile Flowage near the County C boat landing where the group took a break from the ride to hold a...

  • Radar Run raises funds for area trails

    Feb 12, 2018

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] LAKE GOGEBIC - While it may have been the prize money on the line Saturday at Lake Gogebic that drew a crowd to the radar run at Gogebic Lodge, it was everyone who uses the local snowmobile trails that benefits as the organizers donated close to $11,000 to the Gogebic Area Grooming group. Jeff Brauer, one of the Moonshine Riders group that put on the fundraiser for the local trail system, said he and his brothers have been coming up to the area to s...

  • UP woman, 69, walks nine miles to safety

    Feb 12, 2018

    REPUBLIC — A 69-year-old woman who took a wrong turn and became stuck in the snow walked nine miles before finding help, according to Michigan State Police. Troopers from the Negaunee Post said the search for the woman began after she was reported to be in distress around 3:35 p.m. Thursday in zero-degree weather. The Marquette County dispatch center had received a call from a Republic resident who said her sister from Menominee was traveling to Republic and had become lost. The sister took a wrong turn and got stuck in snowbank in a remote are...

  • Community calendar

    Feb 12, 2018

    Monday, Feb. 12 Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, Wis. 715-561-4450. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution, seniors, 9 a.m.-noon, 100 Mill St., Bessemer. 906-667-0283. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Wakefield 4th of July Committtee, 4:30 p.m., All Saints Lutheran Church, Wakefield, 906-364-3441. Overeaters Anonymous, 5 p.m., All Saints Lutheran Church, Wakefield. Iron County Memorial Building Restoration Committee, 5:30 p.m., Memorial Bui... Full story