Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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IRONWOOD - High school girls learned more about "non-traditional" career options during career day at Gogebic Community College, Tuesday. Sophomores and juniors from Bessemer, Ironwood and Wakefield-Marenisco signed up to learn more about career options in automotive and computer programming/robotics. Students joined the high school vocational classes offered at GCC through the Gogebic Ontonagon Intermediate School District. According to Paulette Niemi, transition coordinator for the GOISD,... Full story
MARQUETTE - After presenting the Catholic Diocese of Marquette with its 10th bishop 35 years ago, the Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., has again been called on to provide one of its priests to lead the more than 50,000 Catholics in the Upper Peninsula. Pope Francis has appointed the Rev. John F. Doerfler, who is vicar general of the Diocese of Green Bay, as the 13th bishop of the Diocese of Marquette. The late Bishop Mark Schmitt was the auxiliary bishop of Green Bay when he was appointed bishop of... Full story
WASHINGTON (AP) - Year-end legislation to ease Congress' chronic budget brinkmanship and soften across-the-board spending cuts moved to the cusp of final passage Tuesday, a rare display of Senate bipartisanship that masked strong complaints about slicing into military retirement benefits. The measure is expected to clear the Senate and go to President Barack Obama for his signature on Wednesday, marking a modest accomplishment at the end of a year punctuated by a partial government shutdown, a... Full story
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The numbers have been drawn for the $636 million Mega Millions jackpot. The winning numbers on Tuesday night were: 8, 14, 17, 20, 39; Mega Ball: 7. It's the second-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history. The Mega Millions jackpot has been growing for weeks because of a game revamp that dramatically lowered the odds of winning the top prize to about 1 in 259 million. It used to be about 1 in 176 million, nearly the same odds of winning a Powerball jackpot. It was unknown... Full story
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PENCE, Wis. - Robert E. "Bob" Barnabo, 77, of Pence, died unexpectedly Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013, at home. He was born June 30, 1936, in Hurley, son of the late Dante and Leocadia (Cybulski) Barnabo, and graduated from J.E. Murphy High School in 1954. He then spent two years in the Wisconsin National Guard. Bob was director of maintenance at Villa Maria Health and Rehabilitation Center in Hurley for more than 25 years, retiring in 2006. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Hurley, and... Full story
ONTONAGON, Mich. — Ione Marie Thompson passed away Friday, Dec. 13, 2013, at the Aspirus Ontonagon Long Term Care Facility in Ontonagon. Ione was born on the family farm on June 28, 1921 in Metamora, Ohio. She attended Ohio Northern University and, in 1941, married Robert “Kelly” Thompson. During Kelly’s service in the U.S. Army Air Corps, Ione lived in Florida and Kansas, before returning to Metamora after World War II. Ione and Kelly lived on a farm in Ohio, raising six children, until the family moved to Paradise, Mich., in 1958. In Paradis... Full story
