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Articles from the July 8, 2016 edition


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  • Community Calendar

    Jul 8, 2016

    Friday, July 8 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. Government Ironwood City Commission, 3:30 p.m., Depot Park, Ironwood, branding... Full story

  • Wages in UP lag behind state average

    Ralph Ansami|Jul 8, 2016

    IRONWOOD - Wages in the western Upper Peninsula are higher than the eastern U.P., but both regions lag substantially behind the state average. That was one of many labor analyses presented Thursday at Gogebic Community College to about 25 people. Leonidas Murembya, a regional research coordinator, and Eric Guthrie, a state demographer, spoke at the two-hour session. They are from Michigan's Bureau of Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiative. Murembya said the average wage of $18.14 in...

  • Prairie Fire Children's Theatre returns to HIT with 'Robin Hood'

    Tom Stankard|Jul 8, 2016

    IRONWOOD - Robin Hood and his merry men are ready to save Sherwood Forest when the Prairie Fire Children's Theatre presents "Robin Hood" Saturday at the Historic Ironwood Theatre. With original script and music by Daniel Nordquist, HIT Managing Director Bruce Greenhill said "Robin Hood" continues PFCT's tradition of presenting classic tales on the Ironwood stage with local youth talent. The PFCT is a professional touring company based in Barrett, Minn., and has been bringing a theatrical...

  • Carnegie storytime visits art exhibit along Miners Trail

    Tom Stankard|Jul 8, 2016

    IRONWOOD — Children wandered through Miners Memorial Heritage Park Thursday morning and found fish in the trees as part of an art exhibit by Kate Greenough, of Ironwood. As rain trickled down, Ironwood Carnegie Library Assistant Director Lynne Wiercinski read a story to the children under the fish. She read “The Rainbow Fish,” written and illustrated by Swiss author Marcus Pfister. In the award-winning children's book, the most beautiful fish in the ocean is asked to share one of his shining scales with a little blue fish, and he refuses. All t...