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  • HIT Idol winners perform at Summerfest

    Jul 7, 2015

    MILWAUKEE, Wis. - The seven winners of HIT Idol performed with American Idol finalist Naima Adedapo at Milwaukee's Summerfest Saturday, the culmination of a journey that began last November when Adedapo promised the HIT Idol winners they would accompany her during her Milwaukee performance. The winners performed two songs: One Republic's "Till the Love Runs Out" and "Burn," by Ellie Goulding. "The crowd at the Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard stage loved the performance," said Bruce Greenhill,...

  • Community Calendar

    Jul 7, 2015

    Tuesday, July 7 Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. U.P. Regional Blood Center, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Bloodmobile blood drive, Aspirus Grand View, IronWood. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Range Art Association, 1 p.m., Show planning, Tori House in Ironwood. Cribbage, 1 p.m., Mercer (Wis.) Public Library. 715-476-2366. Ironwood Carnegie Library, 3 p.m., Build Your Own Superhero, Ironwood Carnegie Library. Disabled American Veterans, 6 p.m.,...

  • Why do people purposely hurt or kill animals?

    Jul 7, 2015

    Letter to the Editor: I have often wondered over the years why people purposely hurt or kill animals. For example, the moron who drove off U.S. 51 onto the shoulder by the Gile Flowage to drive through and kill a family of geese. Those same two geese have been coming to the location for years. Now they are all dead, but one. Or like the individual who ran over and killed our family cat on Stateline Road in Kimball. Would it have been so difficult to drive up to the house and say, “I’m sorry, I hit your cat?” Or did you hit it on purpose, just...

  • Hurley woman wins Bessemer 50/50 raffle prize

    Tom Stankard|Jul 7, 2015

    BESSEMER-The big Bessemer Blast 50/50 jackpot of $30,494 has officially been claimed by a Hurley resident. The lucky winner of the the grand prize was Ironwood native Janelle Worthington with ticket number 33820. For as long she can remember, Worthington said she has participated in the raffle as a family tradition, "When I was a child, my mom would always buy a ticket and put our initials on the ticket," she said. "She would get one for me and my brother." In attendance at the parade,...

  • Jack Ralph Pumala

    Jul 7, 2015

    ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Jack Ralph Pumala, 92, passed away at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor on July 1, 2015. Jack was born on Dec. 22, 1922, in Ironwood, to Matt and Emelia (Pahkamaki) Pumala. On March 28, 1944, Jack married the love of his life, Irene Samuelson, in Kansas, and they shared 61 years together. Jack served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II and was a member of the VFW. He worked for General Motors/AC Spark Plug in Flint and Detroit as manager of service training. He main...

  • Lorenzo 'Larry' Pasqualucci

    Jul 7, 2015

    EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - Lorenzo "Larry" Pasqualucci, 93, passed away with his family by his side at the home of his daughter in Eau Claire. Larry was born on Feb. 20, 1922, in Montreal, to Joseph and Mary Pasqualucci. He graduated from Hurley High School in 1940. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1942 to fight in World War II and served on an aircraft carrier, the USS Puget Sound, in the Pacific theater. When Larry returned home from the war, he married his high school sweetheart, Doris Kruger, on May 4, 19...

  • Richard David Hanson

    Jul 7, 2015

    BATTLE CREEK, Mich. - Richard David Hanson, 70, of Battle Creek, passed away on May 2, 2015, at the Battle Creek Medical Center. Richard attended Roosevelt Junior High School in Ironwood Township and Luther L. Wright High School in Ironwood. He then graduated from Dowagiac High School in 1963, and attended Western Michigan University from 1963 to 1967. He then taught high school social studies at Dowagiac High School from 1967 to 1970. He then served in the U.S. Navy from 1970 to 1974. Richard...

  • Sheriff's sale planned for Hurley hotel

    Jul 7, 2015

    HURLEY — The former Hurley Inn, most recently operated as Resident Inn and Suites, will be sold at a sheriff’s sale at 10 a.m. on Aug. 11. According to a legal notice in the Iron County Miner, the property at 1000 Tenth Avenue North was foreclosed in Iron County Circuit Court on Feb. 10. The price is listed at $229,455, with 10 percent to be posted at the time of the sale. The sale will take place in the lobby at the county courthouse at Hurley. At one time operated as a Holiday Inn, the lodging business has not been open for the past two yea...