Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — For the first time in over a decade, the Ironwood Area Schools has a school nurse on staff, after the district’s board of education approved hiring Dawn Vernetti at Monday’s meeting. “It’s really important to have a school nurse because there are children with specific medical needs. When children are at school, we’re responsible for them. We need to know if there are specific things we need to monitor, or whether they have allergies or certain conditions like diabetes that needs to be m...
By JEAN NORDINE [email protected] IRONWOOD - As part of the 2018 Festival Ironwood, Thursday night the Downtown Art Place held a reception and talk for "Promises," a Paul Castagna retrospective, honoring the late local artist. Wine and hors d'oeuvres were served as the public enjoyed learning more about the artist, while viewing 40 of his pieces. Born in 1946 in Ashland, Wis., to second generation Italian and Corsican parents, Castagna started painting as a teenager. After finishing...
HURLEY — An increase in school lunch prices was approved Monday by the Hurley School Board for the 2018-’19 school year. The increases are from 10 to 25 cents in breakfast and lunch prices. The new price set-up will be: Pre-kindergarten breakfast: $1.35; grade 6-12 breakfast: $1.55; adult breakfast: $2.25; pre-K-grade 5 lunch: $2.50; grade 6-12 lunch: $2.75 and adult lunch: $4. School board members were told a policy is being implemented in which students whose parents owe money to the district’s food service account are not offered the ala c...
Friday, July 20 Festival Ironwood; live music, kids’ activity day, photo booth, pie social, farmers market, bean bag toss tournament, pool tournament, Depot Park, Ironwood. Coffee With A Cop, Contrast Coffee, 8 a.m. GOISD Special Education activity, 8 a.m., Depot Park. Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer Senior Center. Ontonagon County Senior Fest, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Ewen-Trout Creek School. Double Trouble, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Serenity Center, Ironwood. Mercer Food Pantry, noon-1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Wis. Emergencies: 7... Full story
MARQUETTE, Mich. - Reino Emil Alanen, 90, passed away Monday, July 16, at the DJ Jacobetti Home for Veterans in Marquette. He was born to Emil and Rosa (Tienhaara) Alanen on May 3, 1928, on a farm near Bruce Crossing. Reino's spent his early years on the farm. Later he worked at the Brown Lee Sawmill in Toivola and laid sod for Snowden near Bruce Crossing before moving to Detroit, where he worked on the assembly line at Packard Cars. In September 1950 he was inducted into the Army. He served in... Full story
