Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER - Two weeks ago, Northern Michigan University in Marquette announced it had received a $6.5 million grant to provide educational broadband services to the entire Upper Peninsula. On Wednesday, the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners learned how the Educational Access Network of NMU will provide Internet services to the western U.P. Eric Smith and Don Salo of NMU addressed the board and answered questions throughout a 45-minute presentation....
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Like a scene straight out of a Mario Puzo book, the skippers of the Range Oldtimers Softball League circled around three square tables Wednesday evening at the Aurora Club to discuss the upcoming season. Currently the league consists of seven teams, but a potential eighth team manager was present at the initial meeting. Jim Kuker, Rigoni's manager, held sway and moderated the meeting of the grizzled veteran coaches. Last year's end of...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors approved hiring Foth Infrastructure & Environment, LLC as the engineering firm for the reconstruction of Saxon Harbor Tuesday. It’s a key step to re-opening the park by the county’s target date of May 2019. Rain and flooding last sumer during a July 11 storm destroyed the harbor. The De Pere, Wis.-based Foth was one of three companies bidding for the project, according to the Iron County Forestry Department. The project will be split into two parts...
Friday, April 14 Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer, Wis., Senior Center. 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. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EDT, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Saturday, April 15 Community Pickleball Paddlers, 8:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer School...
ISHPEMING, Mich. — Elma Dagmar Stengard, of Ironwood, passed away at her home in Ishpeming on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, at the age of 101. She was born in Ironwood on July 8, 1915, to Victor S. and Sanna M. (Peltohaka) Niemi. She attended Oliver Grade School in Ironwood and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School with the class of 1933. She took evening courses at the Woodward Business College in Ironwood. Elma worked at the S.S. Kresge Store in Ironwood for a period of time at the notions and jewelry counter where she sold thread, buttons...
IRON RIVER, Mich. — Jean Mann, of Watersmeet, went to be with the Lord on Friday, March 31, 2017, in Iron River. She was born on Aug. 5, 1937, in Mendota, Ill., to Jeanette and Harry Burright. Jean was a beautician, a farmer, resort owner, loving wife and mother and Sunshine Lady for Land O’ Lakes Bible Church. Jean had a smile and a hug for everyone she met. Jean was preceded in death by her husband of 50 years, Wayne Mann; her parents; and one sister, Betty-Jane Claude, of Kansas. She is survived by her sons, George of Michigan, and Wil...
ASHLAND, Wis. — Gretchen (Bolen) Cottingham, 83, of Wakefield, Mich., passed away peacefully Tuesday morning, April 11, 2017, at Golden Living Center-Court Manor in Ashland. The family is honoring Gretchen’s life in a private family service. Your life was a blessing; your memory a treasure; you are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Jerald Rocco, owner and manager of Lakeside Memorial Chapel Inc., in Wakefield. Condolences may be expressed online at lakesidememorialchape...
