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  • Yesney presents council with trail route update

    Jan 26, 2016

    By KELSEY HANSEN [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The council heard a presentation Monday night about the potential motorized and non-motorized trail system in and around Wakefield. Ron Yesney, from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, along with Paul Anderson, of Coleman Engineering Company, wanted to give the new council an update and continue contact through the process. Yesney, as the Trail Coordinator for the Upper Peninsula, has been working in Gogebic county to promote...

  • Area villagers are given vision for Ontonagon harbor project

    Jan 26, 2016

    By JAN TUCKER [email protected] ONTONAGON - Ontonagon Village residents Monday had an opportunity to see what the Ontonagon harbor could look like in 2035. Seventy-five attended the final report of the Sustainable Small Harbors project. Ontonagon was one of four harbor towns in Michigan awarded the project by the Michigan Sea Grant College. Michigan State University took the lead on the program assisted by other partners. Mark Brederland, Michigan Sea Grant, and Brad Neuman Michigan State...

  • Township retains auditors Makela, Pollack & Ahonen

    Jan 26, 2016

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Citing the positive relationship so far, the Ironwood Township Board of Trustees Monday renewed the township’s contract with the firm Makela, Pollack & Ahonen for auditing services for the next three years. Supervisor Alan Baron said he was recommending the township stick with the firm in part because of advice from officials in the Department of Agriculture, who have been working with the township. “The USDA said they play a big part in rural development and they ... encou...

  • Community Calendar

    Jan 26, 2016

    Tuesday, Jan. 26 Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Breakfast For Your Brain, 10 a.m., Mercer (Wis.) Community Center. 715-561-2695. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Golden Dragon. Woods and Blooms Garden Club, 6:30 p.m., Haines Civic Center, Mercer, Wis. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, Ironwood. area74.org. Government Gogebic Community College Board, 4:30 p.m., room B-22...

  • Father Aloysius J. Hasenberg

    Jan 26, 2016

    WATERSMEET, Mich. - Father Aloysius J. Hasenberg, 92, of Watersmeet, passed away Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016. Father Hasenberg was born July 20, 1922, in Ewen, the son of the late Joseph and Margaret (Bouvier) Hasenberg. He was educated in the Ewen Public Schools and following graduation he studied for the priesthood at St. Lawrence Seminary, Mt. Calvary, Wis., from 1941 to 1944. He was ordained a priest on June 4, 1949, in St. Peter's Cathedral in Marquette by Bishop Thomas L. Noa. He served parishes...

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