Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM STANKARD [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield City Council discussed additional stipulations of potential City Manager Jason Laumann’s contract Thursday afternoon. At an April 1 meeting, the council agreed to offer Laumann a salary of $55,000 for one year. After one year, the council also agreed to raise his salary to $60,000 and include the cost of living in his contract, both pending an evaluation of his performance. Laumann wasn’t able to make the meeting, but had expressed concern that his position is tenta...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — With no word on the status of the county’s Coastal Management grant application, the Iron County Regional Trail Committee discussed how to move forward with the development of a trail between Hurley and Montreal. Among the topics discussed was the plan if the county receives the grant, progress on obtaining land along the desired trail route, ways the area’s motorized and non-motorized trail groups can work together toward common goals and the possible fear from landowners that they will h...
By TOM STANKARD [email protected] HURLEY— The next Range History, Geography and Geology Club meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 11, beginning at 6 p.m. at Sharon’s Coffee Company in Hurley. Paul Sturgul, club organizer, said Bret Deutscher, of Hurley, will give a keynote presentation about William Vilas. Sturgul said Vilas was a prominent Wisconsin member of the Democratic Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1891 to 1897. Deutscher said Vilas acquired two sections of land on the ore bod...
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Friday, April 8 Double Trouble, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Serenity Center, Ironwood. Mercer Food Pantry, noon-1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Wis. Emergencies: 715-476-7655. Alcoholics Anonymous/Al-Anon, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EDT, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Friday Night Fight, 7:30 p.m., registration 4-7 p.m., Mt. Zion, Ironwood. Saturday,...
WATERSMEET, Mich. - John "Stoneman" Filtz Sr., 84, of Watersmeet, and formerly of Stevens Point, Wis., passed away peacefully at his home on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. He was under the care of his family and Regional Hospice of Bessemer. He was born May 14, 1931, in Bevent, Wis. He is the son of the late Peter and Johanna (Cychosz) Filtz. His marriage to Marge Molnar took place on Sept. 17, 1955, in South Milwaukee. She survives. John was a home builder for many years in Stevens Point and...
