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Articles from the April 13, 2018 edition


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  • Community calendar

    Apr 13, 2018

    Friday, April 13 Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer Senior Center. 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. Saturday, April 14... Full story

  • Finance committee approves purchase of radar signs

    Apr 13, 2018

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors’ Finance Committee approved the purchase of a pair of radar signs Thursday which will be installed near the two schools in the county. The county had previously installed signs near the Hurley and Mercer schools, according to Iron County Emergency Management Director Stacy Ofstad, but they weren’t working the way the county had hoped. “From the first year we had major issues with those two signs,” Ofstad said. “The one (in Hurley) never did work — we d...

  • Pints & Politics

    Apr 13, 2018

  • Wakefield City Council begins 2018-19 budget talks

    Apr 13, 2018

    By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Wakefield City Council members began parsing details of the city's 2018-'19 budget at a Thursday workshop in which they also discussed how to evaluate city manager Richard Brackney. Mayor John Granato said the formal evaluation of Brackney will be at an as yet unscheduled public session, but stressed the importance of choosing a "consistent" means of considering criteria in advance. "In the past, we've handed out a questionnaire to each...

  • Bessemer DDA backs two new businesses

    Apr 13, 2018

    By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] BESSEMER — The Downtown Development Authority in Bessemer on Thursday supported Pop-Up shops for Brandon Saari and Bridget O’Sullivan. The two made pitches for the new businesses to open in May. The authority voted unanimously to support both new businesses. O’Sullivan is opening “The Yellow Umbrella,” a thrift and vintage store at 306 S. Sophie St. in “the other” Couch Potato location. She said between her and her husband, they have 50 years of experience in artifacts and antiquing and expect to...