Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] One-hundred and thirty days ago, a July 11 storm hit the Gogebic Range, causing flooding that stranded residents and washed out roads in the northern part of Iron and Gogebic counties. On Thursday, the final two roads - Wisconsin 169 and Lake Road at Little Girl's Point - reopened. Wisconsin 169 reopened following completion of a new bridge over Vaughn Creek in the town of Gurney. The cost to construct the bridge over the wash-out is estimated...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Township employees have finished moving and repairing the natural spring off Lake Road, near Little Girl's Point, a step residents and officials hope will help the spring remain open. The moving of the spring's exit pipe was a necessary part of the transfer of its ownership from the Gogebic County Road Commission to the township. The transfer was necessary after it became clear repairs to the pipe were required following a...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — With a difference of one vote, the election recount for the Iron County District Attorney race Thursday came down to reviewing paper ballots cast in one precinct in the city of Montreal. Matt Tingstad, of Bessemer, gained four votes in that precinct to win the election by five, 1,707 to 1,702. Anthony Stella Jr., of Kimball, trailed by 13 votes when the results came in on election night and only eight votes after a canvass of the voting last week. The canvass vote count was 1,704 for Tingstad...
Friday, Nov. 18 Gogebic Conservation District, 10 a.m., Natural Resources Center, Bessemer. Double Trouble, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Serenity Center, Ironwood. Mercer Food Pantry, noon-1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Wis. Emergencies: 715-476-7655. Alcoholics Anonymous/Al-Anon, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Scrabble at the Mercer Library, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Mercer, Wis., Public Library. 715-476-2366. Ironwood Carnegie Library Board, 4 p.m. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EDT, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday... Full story
ASHLAND, Wis. - LeRoy A. "Heikki" Heikkila, 83, of Kimball, died Tuesday evening, Nov. 15, 2016, at Memorial Medical Center in Ashland, with his loving family by his side. He was born May 13, 1933, in Kimball, son of the late Reino and Tyyne (Myllykangas) Heikkila, and attended J.E. Murphy High School in Hurley. He worked for local loggers as a mechanic and truck driver, worked in the Cary Mine until its closing, and was employed as an underground diesel mechanic at White Pine Copper Co. until... Full story
