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  • Bessemer students explore Ottawa National Forest

    May 18, 2016

    IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Earlier in May, Dave Rowe's biology classes at A.D. Johnston High School made their annual trek to some vernal ponds in the Ottawa National Forest, near Copper Peak. This year's outing was guided by Rowe, USFS Wildlife biologist Brian Bogaczyk and USFS Conservation Education Coordinator Joe Ponci. "You never know what you are going to find when you are out in the field and each year seems to present some interesting finds," Rowe said This year, a red back salamander that was...

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    May 18, 2016

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  • Flood plain map leaves resident high and dry

    May 18, 2016

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — While they may have been sympathetic to his plight, there was little the members of the Iron County Comprehensive Planning/Land and Zoning Committee could do Monday for Jim Youngs other than agree to fund a study to determine whether a permit could be issued allowing Youngs to build a house on his property in Kimball, Wis. The issue preventing Youngs from constructing a house on the property he purchased from the county in 2012 is it falls in a flood plain on county maps, even though the e...

  • Community Calendar

    May 18, 2016

    Wednesday, May 18 Christian Men of the Northland, 6:30 a.m., Uptown Cafe, Ironwood. Mercer Area Play Group, 9:30-11 a.m., all welcome, Mercer, Wis., Public Library. 715-476-2366. Range Master Gardeners work bee, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Pocket Park, 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, Kimball, Wis. Iron County Veterans Ser... Full story

  • Pauline M. 'P.J.' Lotzer

    May 18, 2016

    IRONWOOD, Mich. - Pauline M. "P.J." Lotzer, 66, of Ironwood, died peacefully Wednesday, May 11, 2016, surrounded by her loving family, at Aspirus Grand View Hospital in Ironwood. The former Pauline M. Joki was born May 9, 1950, in Wakefield, daughter of the late Reino and Geraldine (Collins) Joki. She attended grade school in Ramsay and graduated from A.D. Johnston High School in Bessemer in 1968. She received an associate degree from Gogebic Community College in education and a Bachelor of...