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Articles from the January 21, 2022 edition


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  • Ironwood chamber honors Burton EMS as Business of the Year

    Jan 21, 2022

    By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Ironwood Chamber of Commerce honored Burton Electronics Manufacturing System as the 2021 Business of the Year on Wednesday as chamber officials handed out four annual awards in a virtual ceremony. For the second year in a row, the chamber chose to hand out the awards for business, organization and volunteer of the year, as well as the Gus Swanson Educational Award, in a serious of individually recorded presentations that were to be po...

  • Iron County eyes broadband funding

    Jan 21, 2022

    By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors held a hearing on Tuesday to prepare for applying for funds through the bipartisan deal for broadband infrastructure that was passed in Congress in early November. At the board of supervisors’ meeting in December, Iron County Development Zone Coordinator Kelly Klein said that the bipartisan deal will deliver $65 billion to help with broadband infrastructure development. Klein said that each state will receive $100 million with the opportunity to compete f...

  • Frances Lupino

    Jan 21, 2022

    BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. - Frances Lupino (nee Faggiana), 95, was called to Heaven peacefully on Jan. 16, 2022, at home and surrounded by family. She was born on July 6, 1926, in Campobello di Mazara, Sicily. She married John Lupino on June 20, 1959, in Sicily and joined him in America in November of that same year. They resided on the family farm in Kimball, Wisconsin, and later moved to Hurley, Wisconsin, where they remained their entire marriage. Frances relocated to live with her daughter in Map... Full story

  • Community calendar

    Jan 21, 2022

    Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Friday, Jan. 21 Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer Senior Center. Double Trouble, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Serenity Center, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Mercer Food Pantry, noon-1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Wis. Emergencies: 715-476-7655. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EST, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org. Saturday, Jan.... Full story