Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Local area businesses and non-profits provided tables with fun and games for kids and their parents Tuesday at the Ironwood Memorial Building. Erin Ross, MSU Extension educator said the tables are free to businesses, but the business must include a fun event for kids with the promotion. Ross said the Family Fun night was ten years old and is held in conjunction with the Parenting Awareness month. Tracie Wittla, Gogebic County chief...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER - A Hurley man was sentenced to over three years in prison in Gogebic County Circuit Court on a methamphetamine charge Tuesday. Jakob Wayne Applekamp, 28, was sentenced to at least 40 months in prison for conspiracy to deliver meth. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years. "Mr. Applekamp's participation in (an effort to bring drugs into the area) included his living at a camper at the residence where meth transactions were...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] HURLEY — The Hurley School Board approved the 2018-19 school year calendar at its meeting Monday evening. The first day of school will be Tuesday, Sept. 4, the day after Labor Day. The final day of classes will be Friday, June 7, 2019. The calendar includes three longer breaks, including the week of Nov. 19-23 which includes Thanksgiving; Monday, Dec. 24 through Tuesday, Jan. 1; and the week of March 18-22 for spring break. Additionally, there will be no school on President’s Day, Feb. 18; Goo...
Wednesday, March 21 Christian Men of the Northland, 6:30 a.m., Uptown Cafe, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. DOVE Support Group, noon-2 p.m. 906-932-4990. Ironwood/Hurley Rotary Club, 12:15 p.m., Elk and Hound Restaurant, Ironwood. Kimball Homemakers, 1 p.m., Community Center. Iron County Veterans Service Officer, 1-3 p.m., Mercer, Wis., Town Hall. 715-561-2190. American Legion Post 58, 2 p.m., Iron County Memorial Building, Hurley. Mercer Health and Wellness Pickleball, 3-6 p.m.,... Full story
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Ray Schmalz, 91, passed away peacefully on March 19, 2018, at Aspirus Ironwood Hospital from congestive heart failure with complications brought on by the flu. Ray was born on Aug. 27, 1926, to parents, Charles and Esther Schmalz, in Ironwood. He served his country as a corporal in the U.S. Army from 1945 to 1947, and was stationed in Japan for a large part of his service. He met the love of his life, Marjorie, while they were both working at the Kaiser-Frazer automobile plant... Full story
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Clifford K. Dums, 76, of Ironwood, passed away on March 10, 2018. Clifford was born on May 3, 1942, in Wakefield, to William and Madeline (Aspinwall) Dums. He was a graduate of Wakefield High School and attended Gogebic Community College. He served his country honorably for 27 years as a member of the U.S. Army. He also worked a time in the logging industry. He enjoyed fishing and riding his four-wheeler. He was the type of person who was always willing to lend a hand and help... Full story
HARVEY, Mich. - Steven Dean Rahko Pozega, 21, of Harvey, entered eternal life Sunday, March 18, 2018. Born Jan. 29, 1997, in Hinsdale, Ill., a son of Robert L. and Deanna L. (Rahko) Pozega, Steven was raised mostly in the Upper Peninsula. He attended elementary school in Ironwood and Bessemer, middle school and high school in Marquette and Ironwood, and he took classes at Gogebic Community College. Since the Fall of 2017, Steven had been enrolled at Northern Michigan University, studying... Full story
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Mark A. Verrette, 57, of Ironwood, passed away Feb. 21, 2018. Mark was born March 28, 1960, in Wakefield and was raised in Bergland. He graduated from Bergland High School in 1978, and moved to Sheboygan, Wis., where he lived for about 30 years. Mark later moved back to Ironwood to assist his mother in 2008. Mark was preceded in death by his father, Arnold Verrette. He is survived by his mother, Bernice Verrette, of Hurley, Wis.; and by five sisters, Dee Hunt (Michael), of... Full story
