Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD — In the Indianhead Conference second-place crossover volleyball game, Washburn needed five sets to edge Ironwood 25-19, 27-25, 16-25, 24-26 and 15-11. Both teams had finished second in their division, Ironwood in the East and Washburn in the West. Both were considered real good teams. and it figured to be a close match. “It was really was a good game,” Ironwood coach Lisa Graham said. “This was one of our best nights of the year, even though we lost. It was all-around, good volleybal...
HURLEY — Just two days before an even bigger stage, Ironwood came away with both individual titles and were a tiebreaker away from the girls team crown at Thursday’s Indianhead Conference Championships. Ironwood’s Jared Joki pulled ahead of Drummond’s Steven Carlson on the final loop behind the Hurley K-12 School and Ironwood’s Jessica Gering won the girls race. The Devil girls tied with South Shore with 49 points. The first tiebreaker is the sixth-place runner, but neither team had more than...
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HURLEY — The Hurley American Legion voted to terminate its lease with Iron County for the Iron County Memorial Building Wednesday evening. According to Legion member Bob Traczyk, most members were in favor of terminating the lease and voted as such. The Legion pays $1 per year to the county for the building, but with a decline in bowling, the Legion has had trouble making enough revenue to pay utility bills. During a meeting of the Iron County Finance Committee Wednesday morning, Traczyk and o...
EWEN, Mich. — Arlyss Gloria Danielson Waters, 89, of Ewen, died peacefully on Oct. 13, 2013, in the company of family and friends. Born July 4, 1924, in Chicago, Arlyss earned her degree in nursing from Presbyterian-St. Luke’s hospital in Chicago, where she worked as a nurse. She married Charles Waters in 1952 and together they embarked on a life lived in the beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She continued her nursing career in local hospitals while raising their family. Arlyss and Charl...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Eileen Little, 90, of Hoyt Lakes, died Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, at her daughter and son-in-law’s home in Minneapolis. Eileen was born in Ironwood, Mich., in the upstairs bedroom of her mother and father’s home on Nov. 12, 1922. She graduated from Luther L. Wright High School and attended Gogebic Community College. Eileen married Leslie C. Little on Thanksgiving Day, 1945. Eileen enjoyed time spent with her children and grandchildren, playing bridge with friends and casino trips with her daughter. Especially meani...
MARSHFIELD, Wis. — David D. Janov, 63, of Manitowish Waters and formerly of Hurley, died Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Marshfield. He was born Nov. 1, 1949, in Ironwood, Mich., son of the late Charles and Anna (Lukasiewicz) Janov, attended Hurley schools and graduated from J.E. Murphy High School in 1967. He entered the U.S. Air Force on Feb. 7, 1969, spending six years overseas during the Vietnam War, and was honorably discharged as a sergeant on May 9, 1975. Following his...
BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Election Commission Thursday approved language for a ballot on whether Bill McDonald should be recalled from the Bessemer School Board. Sheri Graham, a fellow school member who is attempting to oust McDonald from office, will now have 180 days to collect signatures for a recall petition. The earliest a recall election could be held would be next May. In her second effort to approve language for the ballot, Graham alleged: —McDonald misled voters, telling them to...
