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Articles from the November 15, 2013 edition


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  • Geeked about reading

    Katie Perttunen|Nov 15, 2013

    IRONWOOD - Ironwood's Carnegie Library is "Geeking the Library" with an open house Thursday at 5 p.m. "Geek is a verb," Elaine Erickson, library director, said. "For example, I geek the library." Geek the Library started in 2010, and is an effort in communities across the nation to show people that the library has the resources to support whatever it geeks, their passions, Erickson said. The open house will kick off the program, with goodies and treats provided. Participants can create posters a...

  • Mass burial held in Philippine city hit by typhoon

    Nov 15, 2013

    TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) - The air was thick with the stench of decay as sweating workers lowered the plastic coffins one by one into a grave the size of an Olympic swimming pool. Scores of unidentified bodies were interred together Thursday in a hillside cemetery without any ritual - the first mass burial in this city shattered by last week's Typhoon Haiyan. Six days after the disaster, some progress was being made in providing food, water and medical aid to the half-million people displaced...

  • Book fair raises money for school

    Jan Tucker|Nov 15, 2013

    ONTONAGON - The Ontonagon Area School Book Fair Tuesday sold more than $4,000 in books which will result in 1,800 scholastic dollars for books in the school. For more than 20 years, there has been a book fair where children, adults and organizations can choose the finest books for all school-aged children. For six of those years, it has been the "organizational baby" of Avelin Yost. Yost transformed a room at the Ontonagon School into a children's bookstore with imaginative displays geared for v...

  • Daily Globe hosts annual food drive

    Cortney Ofstad|Nov 15, 2013

    IRONWOOD - The Daily Globe is hosting its fourth annual food drive through Nov. 22. Non-perishable food items can be dropped off at the office, Mondays through Fridays, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. To help boost the number of donations, the Globe is offering an incentive. "People who bring in five or more non-perishable food items will receive a one-week subscription to the Daily Globe, current or new," Marisa Casari, circulation manager, said. "We hope to get as many items as possible." This year,...

  • Hundreds turn out for Palin book signing in Wausau

    Nov 15, 2013

    RIB MOUNTAIN, Wis. (AP) - Hundreds turned out for Sarah Palin's Christmas book signing at a Walmart in the Wausau area. The former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate is promoting her new book, "Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas." Carrie Kolbeck of Wausau was among those waiting Thursday to meet Palin. Kolbeck says Palin "just believes in standing up for religious freedom" and calls her "a very brave woman." It was Palin's fourth stop on her national...

  • Lenore Ursula Pawlak

    Nov 15, 2013

    IRONWOOD, Mich. - Lenore Ursula Pawlak, 85, of Ironwood, died Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013, at Aspirus Grand View Hospital in Ironwood, with her loving family by her side. The former Lenore Dary was born Oct. 21, 1928, in Ironwood, daughter of the late Walter and Regina (Sokolowski) Dary, attended St. Mary's Grade School in Hurley, Wis., and graduated from Lincoln High School there in 1946. Furthering her education at St. Elizabeth School of Nursing in Chicago, Lenore became a registered nurse in...