Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD - Many spectators viewed Friday evening's Jack Frost Parade in the comfort of downtown Ironwood businesses as wind chill readings of minus 7 sent them indoors. Most of the parade watchers arrived just before the 6 p.m. start to line both sides of Aurora Street because frequent breezes combined with the zero-degree weather to make conditions brutal. At Hitt's Fine Furniture, where the raffle ticket winners were announced at 5 p.m. Friday, spectators both young and old viewed the parade...
IRONWOOD - Michigan state Rep. Scott Dianda, D-Calumet, made a stop in Ironwood Friday to speak with students about state government and his views on statewide issues. Dianda met with high school students in Gordy Erickson's social studies class and answered questions on a variety of topics, including his position on mining and wolf hunts, what inspired him to run for office, where he grew up and what he believes to be the most important part of his job. "The most important part of my job, and...
ONTONAGON - The sounds of hammers pounding nails filled the room on Nov. 7 and Nov. 20 at the Ontonagon High School Building Trades program lab as 39 area high school girls participated in Women in Construction events. Students spent the day in the building trades lab constructing an eight-by-eight-foot deer blind just in time for deer season. The events, sponsored by the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District Career Tech Education program, were attended by sophomores and juniors from...
IRONWOOD - Winners in the 2013 Ironwood Gingerbread Contest have been announced. More than 30 entries competed. Participants were judged Thursday afternoon. The candy creations and delicious designs were on display at the Downtown Art Place. The display will continue through Dec. 11, though participants were able to pick up their entries after judging. First place participants received $20, second place received $15 and third place and honorable mentions received $10. -Best Children's Entry...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Regina J. (Cisewski) Peterson, 97, of Minneapolis, passed away on Dec. 4, 2013. Regina was born and raised in Montreal, Wis., where she was a tennis champion and valedictorian of her class. After she moved to Minneapolis in the mid-1930s and during the mid-1950s, Regina and her then husband, Don Peterson, began an electrical contracting company, Electric Service. She also was a lifetime bridge master, real estate agent and tax preparer, as well as a financial planner. She...
MADISON, Wis. - Melba Rigoni passed away at the home of her elder daughter in Boyertown, Pa., on Nov. 29, 2013. Born too small in October 1918, her parents Matti and Alina (Mattson) Kinnunen feared she might not survive. They put her in a shoebox and set her atop the open door of their wood-burning cook stove, where Melba stayed warm. Melba attended a one-room schoolhouse near the family's farm in South Carey and graduated from Hurley High School in 1935. Using scholarship funds from the local...
DULUTH, Minn. - Joseph M. Oszakiewski, 57, of Hurley, Wis., died Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, with his loving wife by his side, at Essentia Health-St. Mary's Medical Center Hospice in Duluth, following a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born Sept. 1, 1956, in Chicago, son of the late Joseph W. and Violet (Kubick) Oszakiewski, and graduated from Gordon Tech High School in Chicago in 1974. He was employed at Pauli's Foods in Chicago as grocery store manager for seven years and worked in...
BESSEMER - With a big chill blanketing the Upper Peninsula's famous Big Snow Country, Tucker Hibbert remained undefeated on the AMSOIL Championship Snocross tour – overcoming a back row start (due to a false start penalty) to win the series' third round in convincing fashion over second place Ross Martin and Kody Kamm in third. Finishing fifth was homeboy Kyle Pallin of Ironwood. Friday's support Pro Lite class at Blackjack would go to Andrew Lieders. The event continues all day today at B...
