Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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TRAVERSE CITY - After months of planning, organizing and preparing, the work paid off. On Tuesday morning, "History Prize," an international tourism event organized in Ironwood, won the Jumpstart contest during the 2014 Pure Michigan Governor's Conference on Tourism. It was one of five statewide proposals competing at the conference. According to History Prize organizer Mara MacKay, the feeling is "tremendous. It is such a relief, but also joy for the future," she said. "It is such an honor of t...
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LANSING (AP) - Olympic gold medalist ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White were honored in Lansing on Tuesday while visiting the home state Capitol they once toured as school kids. Gov. Rick Snyder and legislators paid tribute to the first Americans to win an Olympic ice dance title. They grew up in suburban Detroit, where they still train, and attend the University of Michigan. Snyder said they are "Michiganders through and through" and residents could not ask for better ambassadors for...
KALAMAZOO (AP) - Western Michigan University's new medical school will be named after the founder of the medical technology company Stryker Corp., officials announced Tuesday. The Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine will be housed at the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus downtown and welcome its first class this fall. Dr. Homer Stryker was a Kalamazoo orthopedic surgeon and medical device inventor. "Dr. Homer Stryker's lifelong efforts to develop innovative medical products...
Rosemary Strelcheck, 87, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and longtime Bessemer businesswoman, died Thursday, March 6, 2014, in Wakefield, with her children at her side. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, May 10, at 11 a.m. at St. Sebastian Catholic Church in Bessemer, with the Rev. Antony Lukka as celebrant. Family will receive friends at the church on that day from 10 a.m. until the time of service. A luncheon will follow in the church hall. Burial will be at Hillcrest Cemetery. Range Funeral Service and...
Henrik John Arnett Ostrander was taken into the loving arms of Jesus on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. Henrik leaves behind his mother, Dena, and father, Jared; big sisters, Shantanna and Rhiannen; grandparents, Terrell and Judith Ostrander, of Ironwood; and great-grandmother, Bernice Hanson, of Glidden, Wis. A memorial Mass for Henrik was held at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Mora, Minn., on March 8, 2014. His tiny presence will be forever cherished and missed. He will remain forever in our hearts....
DULUTH, Minn. — Erland W. Ollikainen, 63, of Ramsay, Mich., died Monday, March 10, 2014, in Duluth. A memorial service will be held Saturday, March 15, at 11 a.m., at Sharon Lutheran Church in Bessemer, Mich. The family will receive friends Saturday from 10 a.m. until the service at the church. Arrangements are by Range Funeral Service and Crematory, Frick-Zielinski Funeral Home of Bessemer....
