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Articles from the April 5, 2014 edition


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  • April snow showers bring May drifts

    Ralph Ansami|Apr 5, 2014

    IRONWOOD - The early spring storm that blasted the Gogebic Range with more than a foot of snow beginning Thursday evening lingered on into early this morning. Ironwood received 9.5 inches for the 24-hour period to 7 a.m. Friday and it snowed throughout the day after that, most likely doubling that total. The National Weather Service's winter storm warning for Ironwood was extended to 1 this morning, long after the storm had ended in the Duluth-Superior area. The snow was wet, heavy and...

  • Ironwood Memorial Building's spruced up for Tuesday birthday celebration

    Apr 5, 2014

    IRONWOOD - On the 125th birthday of the city of Ironwood, efforts are being made to spruce up the Memorial Building. City officials said areas of the building used by the public are being painted, the first new coats since the building was renovated 20 years ago. The new paint scheme blends in with colors in the polished Tennessee marble stonework in the building's entrance rotunda. The city is hosting a public reception at the building Tuesday from 4 to 8 p.m. to celebrate the historical...

  • Fun field trip

    Apr 5, 2014

  • Acclaimed photographer Anja Niedringhaus dies

    Associated Press|Apr 5, 2014

    Anja Niedringhaus faced down some of the world's greatest dangers and had one of the world's loudest and most infectious laughs. She photographed dying and death, and embraced humanity and life. She gave herself to the subjects of her lens, and gave her talents to the world, with images of wars' unwitting victims in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia and beyond. Shot to death by an Afghan policeman Friday, Niedringhaus leaves behind a broad body of work - from battlefields to sports fields - that won...

  • Detroit motorist beaten by mob still in critical condition

    Apr 5, 2014

    DETROIT (AP) - As Steve Utash lies in a Detroit hospital bed, with his brain swollen and a gash in his head, he appears to remember the brutal beating that a neighborhood mob inflicted days earlier. "He wakes up and his arms start struggling and he says, 'Help me! Help me!" said Terry Emerick, a family friend. Utash remained in critical condition Friday - two days after accidentally hitting a 10-year-old boy with his company pickup on Detroit's east side and being pummeled by at least a...

  • Robert A. 'Red' Synkelma

    Apr 5, 2014

    WAKEFIELD, Mich. - Robert A. "Red" Synkelma, 76, of Ironwood, died Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at Gogebic Medical Care Facility in Wakefield. Red was born Feb. 27, 1938, in Bessemer Township, son of Minnie (Kujala) and the late John Synkelma, attended Puritan Grade School, and graduated from A. D. Johnston High School in 1957. He worked at Lutey's Greenhouse in Ironwood for a short time, then moved to Kenosha, Wis., where he worked at American Motors for six years. Returning to Ironwood, he worked...

  • Jamie M. Sokolowski

    Apr 5, 2014

    RED CLIFF, Wis. - Jamie M. Sokolowski, 35, of Red Cliff, died Wednesday, April 2, 2014, at her home. She was born Dec. 5, 1978, in Washburn, the daughter of Frank Gordon Sr. and Alice Pechaver. Jamie graduated from Bayfield High School in 1997. She attended Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College-Ashland for awhile and Lac Courte Oreilles Community College in Hayward, graduating in 2004 with an associate degree in liberal arts and Native American studies. Jamie worked at Greunke's Restaurant,...