Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER - After unveiling Bessemer's new branding logo Thursday evening, city officials explained how they might use it. The logo could represent a new beginning for the city, along with Bessemer's revised master plan, said Mayor Kathy Whitburn. The logo, with the BE in Bessemer framed by its towering bluffs, was well received by about 75 people who attended the Big Reveal unveiling ceremony at a new pop-up business called Lily Trout Art and Design on...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - The Iron County Mobile Food Pantry has been recognized by the Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank, which gave those who operate the pantry its 2017 Volunteers of the Year award. "Initially, Iron County was the least served in our eight-county region, and after launching our region's first mobile food pantry program here over four years ago, (the volunteers) helped us supply over 388,000 meals to hundreds of families, children and...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] WAKEFIELD — With the addition of Ironwood to the Gogebic Miners cooperative football program this year, Homecoming is becoming an even more grand spectacle for the three schools and their respective communities. Ironwood, Wakefield-Marenisco and Bessemer will hold their own Spirit Week festivities daily Oct. 2-6, but they will come together jointly as a football program and rallying cry for the community Friday night. This year, Wakefield-Marenisco is hosting the homecoming game against Bark River-Ha...
Friday, Sept. 29 Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer Senior Center. 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. Ironwood Carnegie Library Board, 4 p.m. 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,... Full story
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Clifford Roy Saari died Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, at Woodside Lutheran Home with his family at his side. He was 95 years old. Cliff was born June 6, 1922, in Ironwood, Mich., to the late John A. Saari and Pearl (Ronn) Saari. He grew up on the family farm in Kimball Township, about 10 miles west of Hurley. He attended grade school in a one-room school house near the farm. He started school at 4 years old and graduated from Hurley High School at the age of 17 in 1939. A year... Full story
