Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
RALPH ANSAMI
MELLEN, Wis. — The Ashland County Sheriff’s Department is continuing to lead a search for a missing Bergland woman.
On Memorial Day around 4:30 p.m., the Ashland County Communications Center received a report 54-year-old Jody Lynn Newberry had traveled from her home in Bergland to Mellen to attend the Mellen Jam music festival.
Newberry’s sister was concerned because the festival had ended and she had not returned home and didn’t contact the family.
Newberry traveled to the festival with a man, and the two became separated, with the last contact around noon on Saturday, according to a police statement.
Newberry is 5-3, 115 pounds, with long brown hair, several missing teeth, a skin tag on her nose and wearing wire-rimmed glasses.
Mellen Jam is held on Memorial Day weekend on forested private property on Gilgen Road, north of Mellen. The parcel is located next to a large area of densely forested and rugged terrain.
An initial unsuccessful search of the property and adjacent area was performed by deputies, followed by an expanded search by the Sawyer County Search and Rescue K-9 unit.
Anyone having contact with Newberry since Thursday, especially at the Mellen Jam party and afterwards should contact the Ashland County Sheriff’s Department at (715) 682-7023.
The sheriff’s department couldn’t be reached Thursday night for an update because of “telephone company trouble,” a recorded message said. Efforts to reach Michigan State Police at the Wakefield Post were also unsuccessful.
