Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] RONWOOD - There was no shortage of help Saturday for Fall Clean-up Day on Ayer Street in Ironwood. A total of 31 JROTC students from Luther L. Wright school assisted city workers and volunteers in the effort, free to city residents. There are 74 students in JROTC this year at Ironwood and the city requested around 30 helpers, according to Col. Sandy (Bowman) Keefer, who's in charge of the JROTC program at the school. The turn-out was light for much of...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] KIMBALL, Wis - A small crowd gathered at Little Finland Sunday for a showing of the World War II movie, "Tali Ihantala." The film is also known by several other names in various countries, including "1944: The Final Defense." While featuring little plot or characters, the movie - which was made in 2007 - portrays the Finnish victory in the battle of Tali Inhantala. The battle, fought in the summer of 1944, was a Finnish attempt to stop the Russian...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — August was warm and wet in Ironwood, with only two days with temperatures lower than 50 degrees. The weather wrap-up for the month from Kevin Crupi, of the National Weather Service office in Marquette, notes that a typical August would include nine days with readings under 50. A southwest flow of air prevailed for the month, sending in all of that warmth. The 4.49 inches of rain that fell on Ironwood in August was 1.33 percent of the normal total. The June through August 2016 period is n...
Monday, Sept. 19 Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, Wis. 715-561-4450. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EDT, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org. Methamphetamine ETC, 8 p.m., support group, Woodland Church, Ironwood. 906-285-2813 or methetc.web.com. Government Bessemer Housing Commission, 8:30 a.m.,...
WAKEFIELD, Mich. - Frances T. Monrad, 93, of Ironwood, died Saturday morning, Aug. 20, 2016, at Gogebic Medical Care Facility in Wakefield. The former Frances Tabacchi was born May 2, 1923, in Hurley, Wis., daughter of the late Louis and Maria Tabacchi. Surviving are a brother, Leno (Jo) Tabacchi, San Clemente, Calif.; nieces, Lee Ann (Greg) Plotts, Valley Village, Calif., Lynn (Patrick) Canning, Anaheim, Calif., Catherine (Steve) Garvey, Shoreview, Minn., and Mary (Greg) Pavlak and Susan (Mary...
