Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY - The food service staff at Hurley K-12 School say the adjustments to serving students in-school during the COVID-19 pandemic are efficient and working. Dawn Rye, food service director for Hurley School District, credited her previous career in health for coming up with a plan when faced with the challenge of designing a food program routine that protects students and staff from the spread of coronavirus, but also is efficient and affordable...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] MERCER, Wis. — The Mercer School District Board of Education is taking a look at a shortfall in property tax revenue, according to discussion at the regular board meeting on Monday. School board president Robert Davis said he had just learned Monday that the school district’s January 2021 tax payment was $614,289. That is a $196,482 shortfall from the January 2020 tax payment of $810,771. “That is a significant amount relative to our budget,” Davis said. “I don’t know what the source of this shortf...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] Libraries in Wakefield, Bessemer and Ironwood will resume in person services this week. These libraries have only been offering curbside services since October. “It’s been a tough couple of months, so we are excited to open,” said Joel Laessig, director of the Wakefield Library. Laessig said the closure has been particularly hard on library patrons who don’t have internet access at home. He said that people use the library for internet access to file for unemployment and do their taxes, and make ap...
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Bonnie E. Westrich (nee Bowers), 72, retired, of Iron Mountain, Michigan, passed away after a silent but long battle with chronic kidney disease on Jan. 17, 2021, while in the care of St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay. Bonnie is survived by her two children, Tammy W. Levit-Jones (Mark Jones) and Sandra K. Levit; her sister, April Ruppe (Joseph); and brother, Wallace C. Bowers; her grandchildren, Kayla Anderson (Thomas Ziemba) and Kevin Anderson (Stephany); her... Full story
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, Jan. 30 Union Station Food Pantry and Northern Food Bank, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 252 E. Ayer St., Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2-5 p.m., Mercer School gymnasium. 715-776-4588. Community Night Meal Free Supper, 5-6 p.m., Apostolic Lutheran Church, Aurora Street, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood.... Full story
