Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
ABOUT 75 people attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday at noon at Norrie Park, marking completion of road work at the park and throughout the city. From left are Mayor Annette Burchell, city commissioners Rick Semo, Jim Mildren and Brandon Tauer, and Tim Erickson, of the Ironwood Community Development office.
IRONWOOD - Mayor Annette Burchell on Tuesday thanked the voters of the city of Ironwood for approving the millage that led to streets throughout the city being resurfaced.
Although the mayor was speaking at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Norrie Park, she said the Tuesday noon ceremony stood for all of the street work that had been completed in the city in the past few years.
Norrie Park Road, along the Montreal River, was long the most pothole-felled roadway in Ironwood and city commissioner Jim Mildren said he hoped many people who had been ignoring the park because of the poor road surface might again visit it.
City manager Scott Erickson offered a special thanks to Paul Luppino, of Angelo Luppino Construction of Iron Belt, Wis., for smoothing out the road. Luppino attended the short ceremony.
City employees and the Ironwood Kiwanis Club hosted a cook-out at the park following the ribbon-cutting on a beautiful late summer day.
The long-awaited resurfacing of Norrie Park Road is only a small part of the city's local street paving project that was extended to a second year after city residents approved it through a millage vote, Burchell noted.
The Kiwanis Club has been a partner with the city in the park for more than 90 years.
The most recent work in the paving project has been on Mt. Zion Road and Riverside Cemetery.
