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Craft fair fills Hurley School
HURLEY - While many Gogebic Range residents were pursuing deer on the first day of Wisconsin's gun-deer season on Saturday, others were hunting for bargains in a festive atmosphere at the Hurley K-12...
Early brutal start to winter likely to change to average
MARQUETTE — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder declared Nov. 5-11 Winter Hazards Awareness Week more than a week after the snow began falling throughout much of the Upper Peninsula. While 15.2 inches of...
Iron County Museum hosts haunted history tour
HURLEY - Call it ghoulish history. Twelve at a time, groups heard tales of horror and despair as they made their way through the Iron County Courthouse Museum in Hurley Saturday night. The second...
Bergman pledges to continue support for Great Lakes Initiative
BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution supporting continued funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and the board received an update this week from U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet. Bergman said he...
County board may seek new round of bids on audit
BESSEMER — The three-year audit for Gogebic County is up for renewal, so the county board of commissioners decided to seek bids from companies to perform the work. At its meeting on Wednesday, the board received only a single audit bid and it came...
Ironwood Theatre, DAP awarded grants
IRONWOOD — Grants totaling $58,255 for 2018 were announced Friday for the Ironwood Theatre and Downtown Art Place. The downtown theater will receive two grants of $17,500 and $29,505, or 70 percent of its request, according to the Michigan Council...
Deck with a view
IRONWOOD - The new overlook on Mt. Zion is a result of a lot of positive efforts falling together, Ironwood Mayor Annette Burchell said Friday. "It only happened because of a unique collaboration,"...
Wisconsin access to Little Girl's Point closed for repairs
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - The Gogebic Range continues to cope with the aftermath of the flooding of July 2016 with reconstruction projects. Lake Road, north of the Wisconsin-Michigan border line bridge,...
Deer heads to be collected during Ironwood's bow hunt
IRONWOOD — A twist has been added to the city of Ironwood’s bow deer hunt this year. Deer heads will be collected to be checked for chronic wasting disease, the city commission learned on Monday. It will be the 12th year of the inner city...
Winners chosen early as fair opens Friday
SAXON, Wis. - The poultry and rabbits were active with a cool north breeze drifting through their weekend home at the Iron County Fair in Saxon on Friday. Two geese were cackling in their cage, greeti...
Koski remembered one year after flood
MONTREAL, Wis. - One year after 12 inches of rain in four hours destroyed Saxon Harbor, the Montreal man who lost his life in the storm is being remembered. City of Montreal Mayor Todd Haeger on...
Ironwood begins First Friday effort
IRONWOOD - Threatening skies cleared in time for Ironwood's initial First Friday downtown promotional effort. After Friday afternoon events at Deport Park, people headed downtown for the evening...
Galaxies in running for Michigan Rock Hall
IRONWOOD - Ironwood's Galaxies may be entering Michigan's Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame. The four-man group that performed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when rock was young, is in the running for...
NMU representatives explain UP broadband expansion plans
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER - Two weeks ago, Northern Michigan University in Marquette announced it had received a $6.5 million grant to provide educational broadband services...
Sentencing moved back in Iron murder-arson case
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — The Donald Rick sentencing hearing in the Bear Trap murder-arson case has been changed from today to June 1 at 10 a.m. Rick, 45, of Saxon, admitted to murdering Lisa Waldros of Kimball in the...
Ironwood street projects ahead
IRONWOOD - Ironwood City Manager Scott Erickson told the city commission Monday at least two road projects are on the horizon. Van Buskirk Road will be seal-coated. The project is expected to begin...
Man jailed for bail jumping
HURLEY — A $2,500 bond was set Monday in Iron County Court for an Ironwood man who faces a felony bail jumping charge in connection with numerous other cases. LeRoy Hamm, 34, appeared before Judge Patrick Madden, who ordered a blood draw for...
Ironwood woman sentenced to jail in credit union theft
HURLEY — A 48-year-old Ironwood woman was sentenced Monday afternoon in Iron County Court to a year in jail and three years probation for a single count of identity theft. Wendy Wuorinen had originally been charged with 26 counts of theft for...
Sentencing delayed in Iron DHS theft case
HURLEY — A planned plea and sentencing hearing scheduled for Friday morning for a 52-year-old Hurley woman who is charged with five counts of theft from a business setting was postponed in Iron County Court. Joseph Rafferty, the attorney for Mary...
Winds cause widespread damage
Gusty west winds that continued on Wednesday morning combined with snow on the Gogebic Range to create some hazardous driving conditions and power outages. Trees and branches fell across many...
Noren to retire in September; board considers replacement
BESSEMER — The Gogebic County Board of Commissioners Wednesday tabled a proposal to move a sheriff’s department deputy into a part-time data processing position for a three-month period to prepare for the retirement of Brad Noren. The proposal...
Planning commissioners advance five-year city plan
IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Planning Commission Thursday approved a five-year Capital Improvement Plan for the city. The plan will go before the five-member city commission for final approval. The CIP is part of the city’s comprehensive plan and is...
Thaw breaks record high reading here
IRONWOOD — After narrowly missing a record high the day before, a new daily high temperature was set for Ironwood on Friday. For the 24-hour period to 7 a.m. on Friday, the high was a balmy 50 degrees, which broke the old mark of 48 set in 1981....
County board approves UP panel appointments
BESSEMER — Three appointments to Upper Peninsula agencies were approved at Wednesday’s reorganizational meeting of the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners. Joe Bonovetz, of Bessemer, who stepped down as chairman of the county board earlier in...
Jack Frost parade moves to Saturday
IRONWOOD — Ironwood Chamber of Commerce Director Michael Meyer told the city’s Economic Development Corporation Wednesday why the December Jack Frost parade has been shifted from Friday to Saturday. Meyer said the primary reason for the change...
