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Articles from the May 27, 2016 edition


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  • Delores W. Kurta

    May 27, 2016

    GILE, Wis. — Delores W. Kurta, of Gile, passed away peacefully on Friday, May 13, 2016, after a nearly six-year battle with cancer. Arriving prematurely at home, on Aug. 1, 1930, to William (Buck) Rowe and Rene (Irene/Rena) Rowe of Ironwood, Mich., Delores’ early arrival was riddled with complications. With the family having limited resources, lack of proper medical care and equipment, Delores’ diminutive size, and extremely low birth weight, was viewed as insurmountable, and the local doctor prepared the Rowes for the grim, but... Full story

  • Community Calendar

    May 27, 2016

    Friday, May 27 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. Ironwood Carnegie Library Board, 4 p.m. 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, May 28 Community Pickleball... Full story

  • Thunderstorms produce Ironwood rainfall record

    Ralph Ansami|May 27, 2016

    Students aboard a bus from Rhinelander, Wis., waited out rainfall and heavy fog Thursday morning in a visit to Saxon Harbor as the Gogebic Range continued to get battered by thunderstorms. The students were treated to lightning flashes through the fog and a muddy Lake Superior as they got a lesson in northern Wisconsin weather. The sky brightened later in the day, but not before dumping additional rainfall across the area. The Ironwood weather station off Cloverland Drive recorded 1.6 inches of...

  • 'AIRE OF NOBILITY'

    May 27, 2016

  • Judge rules search legal in Stone case

    Richard Jenkins|May 27, 2016

    BESSEMER — Judge Michael Pope heard testimony and arguments regarding whether a search and the eventual arrest of Adam Lee Stone was legal during an all-purpose motion hearing in Gogebic County Circuit Court Tuesday. Stone, 35, of Hurley, is facing charges of possession of a firearm by a felon, a five-year felony; felonious assault, a four-year felony; possession of heroin, a four-year felony; felony firearm, a two-year felony, and a habitual offender-fourth offense notice. The charges stem from an incident in Ironwood Township where...

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