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Articles from the March 13, 2013 edition


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  • MDNR: Wolf hunt won't be U.P.-wide

    Ralph Ansami|Mar 13, 2013

    IRONWOOD — If Michigan conducts a wolf hunt, it won’t be Upper Peninsula-wide. That’s what 272 people attending a Department of Natural Resources meeting on wolf management learned Tuesday at Gogebic Community College. Heavy snow throughout the day held the crowd down somewhat. Adam Bump, a DNR bear and furbearer specialist, said another certainty regarding a potential hunt is dogs wouldn’t be allowed, but trapping would be a possibility. It was a relatively quiet two-hour meeting in the gym...

  • Ironwood timber sale proceeds to be used to match DNR grant

    Ralph Ansami|Mar 13, 2013

    IRONWOOD — Proceeds from a city of Ironwood timber sale will be used for a local match in a grant application for a city park. City manager Scott Erickson told the city commission Monday the city received $32,000 from the timber sale. He praised retired U.S. Forest Service employee Marion True, of Ironwood, for helping the city out with the timber sale and said another one will be conducted next winter. The commission on Monday agreed to apply for Department of Natural Resources grants of $60,000 apiece for Longyear and Curry parks after holdin...

  • Educator, lady to be missed by many

    Mar 13, 2013

    To the Editor: When Clarence Negri told me that his wife Joanie had passed, I was both surprised and disappointed. Surprised only to the fact she had passed. Disappointed in that it had happened and that I was unaware her time had come. We all knew Joanie was sick, that the end was coming, but is there really ever a date, an appropriate date, for a friend’s life to end? Joanie taught at the Washington School for many years and I had the privilege to work with her for eight of them. She was a leader at school and made things happen. Many s...

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