Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - There is a social side to snowshoeing if you ask the people who supported the Superior Snowshoe Walk events for the past 10 years. Around 50 area residents gathered at Manny's Restaurant in Ironwood on Wednesday evening for the third of 10 weekly snow shoe events at area trails with a sponsored social following. Manny's hosted the Cottonwood Tree Walk this week and moving forward other events are organized by different groups and...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] BESSEMER - A Wakefield man said the life-saving efforts of a law enforcement officer has given him a new outlook on life. Bryon Flohaug, a 51-year-old Wakefield electrical contractor employee with a wife and son, wanted to attend the Gogebic County Commission meeting Wednesday, where the commissioners joined the Gogebic County Sheriff's Office in honoring the deputy who is credited with saving his life. "If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be here," he...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — A Lac du Flambeau man will spend more than two decades in prison for his role in the 2017 slaying of a childhood friend, Wayne Valliere Jr. Curtis A. Wolfe, 28, was sentenced in Iron County Court Wednesday to 20 years in prison and 10 years of extended supervision after his release for being a party to the crime of second degree reckless homicide, followed by 5 years in prison and 3 years of extended supervision for being a party to the crime of hiding a corpse for his role in the m...
Thursday, Jan. 23 Pickleball, 9:30 a.m.-noon, All Saints Academy, Ironwood, use south entrance. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Wakefield City Hall; 1-2 p.m., Watersmeet Township; 2:45-3:15 p.m., Marenisco Township. 906-667-1110. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. SMART Recovery, 4:30 p.m., 101 E. Mary St., Bessemer. Survivors of Suicide, 6 p.m., Zion Lutheran Church basement, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, Hurley. area74.org. Government... Full story
Hurley, Wis. - Carl P. Sauter, 93, of Hurley, passed away on Dec. 31, 2019, at Villa Maria Health Care Center in Hurley. Carl was born on Feb. 16, 1926, in Ironwood, son of Joseph and Caroline (Zimmerman) Sauter. He graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in 1944 and served in the U. S. Army in World War II. He was a long-time employee of OK Auto Parts in Ironwood and previously of the A & P grocery store. He was an avid trout fisherman; and later in life, enjoyed golf, bocce, and... Full story
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. — Wayne Smith, 86, passed away Jan. 6, 2020, in Lake Havasu City, Ariz. He was born in Ironwood and was the son of Walter and Eleanore Smith. Wayne served in the army from 1953 to 1955, doing a tour of duty in Korea. Afterwards he worked in a building supply and lumber sales, eventually co-owning the Iron River Building and Home Center, along with the Lumbermen’s Motel and Restaurant in Iron River. During that time he was an active member of the Iron River Lions Clu... Full story
