Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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BESSEMER — A proposal was accepted by the Bessemer City Council to sell the old Presbyterian Church at 400 South Moore Street to Douglas Kikkebusch of Ironwood, for the amount of one dollar. The property had been out for bids for repurposing. City manager Michael Uskiewicz called Kikkebusch’s proposal “intriguing.” Kikkebusch plans to repurpose the building into an art gallery, studio space, and retail area, primarily for handmade glass works of art. His work is currently featured at a gallery...
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — College students consider the University of Iowa the nation’s best party school, even though Iowa City has tried to make its famous bar scene less hospitable to underage drinkers. The Princeton Review bestowed Iowa with the top ranking Monday on a list determined by 126,000 students in a nationwide survey. Rounding out the Top 5 are: University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; West Virginia University and Syracuse Uni...
LONDON (AP) — The food of the future could do with a pinch of seasoning — and maybe some cheese. Two volunteers who took the first public bites of hamburger grown in a laboratory gave it good marks for texture but agreed there was something missing. “I miss the salt and pepper,” said Austrian nutritionist Hanni Ruetzler. U.S. journalist Josh Schonwald confessed to a difficulty in judging a burger “without ketchup or onions or jalapenos or bacon.” Both tasters shunned the bun, lettuce and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican National Committee charged Monday that NBC and CNN are promoting a potential presidential candidacy by Hillary Rodham Clinton, threatening to blackball them from future GOP primary debates if they air upcoming programs on the former secretary of state. RNC chairman Reince Priebus called a planned NBC miniseries on Clinton and a CNN documentary on the first lady an “extended commercial” for a future Clinton presidential campaign. In separate letters to the netwo...
WAKEFIELD, Mich. — Frank Wallace St Vincent Jr., 81, of Wakefield, passed away Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, with his loving family by his side. He was born on Jan. 4, 1932, in Marinette, Wis., the son of Frank and Martha (Mayville) St Vincent. Frank graduated from Marinette High School. On Nov. 17, 1951, he married Violet Helen Treptow in Menominee. From 1952 to 1954, Frank served in the U.S. Army as a private and was assigned to the military police corps. During his lifetime, he was a self-taught a...
IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. — Christine Scott Kallal, 63, of Iron Mountain, passed away on Aug. 1, 2013, at her home. Chris was born on Nov. 21, 1949, in Springfield, Ill., to Robert Scott and Margaret Scott Anderson. She graduated from Springfield High School in 1967 and attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. She married Thomas Kallal in 1970 and recently celebrated their 43rd anniversary. They moved to Iron Mountain in 1978. Chris worked at Bay Title and Abstract for nearly 30 years, d...
HURLEY, Wis. — Marian L. Cayer, 88, of Hurley, died Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013, at Villa Maria Health and Rehabilitation Center in Hurley. The former Marian Filek was born Dec. 31, 1924, in Amasa, Mich., the daughter of the late John and Rose (Walleck) Filek. She attended Southside Grade School in Hurley and graduated from Lincoln High School in 1942. She was married to Milton Cayer on June 4, 1947, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Hurley, by the late Monsignor Michael Prock. Milton preceded her...
