Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Aspirus Ironwood Hospital hosted a snowy fundraiser for Miners Memorial Heritage Park Thursday. The snowshoe event raised money to pay for grooming and trail maintenance. "Last year's event saw over 300 people come out and raised over $900, but they had excellent weather," said Carol Erickson, secretary for the Friends of Miners Park. Snowshoers and cross-country skiers were both welcome to come to the park and traverse the one-mile...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - The Ironwood Township Board of Trustees adopted a $910,700 2017 budget on Dec. 23, mostly unchanged from this year. The budget includes general appropriations and water, wastewater and special grant funds. Trustee Kevin Lyons discussed the idea of opting of out Public Act 152 before a motion to do so passed. The government sets a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent to cover the health care of employees. The township...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD — Bond has been set at $50,000 for an Ironwood man who was being held in the Gogebic County Jail Thursday following an armed robbery threat at the Holiday Station Store on Cloverland Drive. According to an Ironwood Public Safety Department report, Chad Andert, 35, of 663 E. Cloverland Drive, was arrested after telling the male clerk at the store that he was about to rob it. The IPSD report said Andert instructed the clerk to call 911 and inform the dispatcher that he was about to be robbed. H...
Friday, Dec. 30 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. 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, Ironwood. area74.org. Saturday, Dec. 31 Community Pickleball Paddlers, 8:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer School... Full story
SUN CITY, Calif. –– (Cora) Eileen Hampston Jellum Gerwick, 94, died peacefully on Dec. 14, 2016, at home in Sun City. She was the daughter of Quinlan and Cora Hampston, of Mansfield Street in Ironwood, Mich., born July 18, 1922. Eileen graduated from St. Ambrose High School with the class of 1940. In 1944, she received her RN from Sherman Hospital School of Nursing in Elgin, Ill., and then went on to serve in World War II in the Army Nurses Corps from March, 1945, until May, 1946. Eileen was... Full story
