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Articles from the April 20, 2017 edition


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  • Bessemer school board holds work session at GCC

    Apr 20, 2017

    By IAN Minielly [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Bessemer school board traveled to GCC Tuesday to hold a work session, not a board meeting. In a work session no final decisions are made, but options are discussed that can be brought before the board for a decision at a later date, according to Superintendent Dave Radovich. The group discussed Massie Field in Bessemer and adding a line item in the budget for maintenance. Massie Field is the home of the Speedboy and Speedgirl track and field, and Gogebic Miner football and baseball t...

  • Hurley fundraiser

    Apr 20, 2017

  • Sentence deferred for Hurley man

    Apr 20, 2017

    HURLEY — A 46-year-old Hurley resident received a deferred sentence in Iron County Court Wednesday on a charge that dates to 2001. John Kallas entered a no contest plea to exposing intimate body parts, a misdemeanor, following a plea agreement between his attorney, Richard Gondik Jr., and acting Iron County District Attorney Fritz Schellgell. After one year, there will be a court hearing and if all conditions of the agreement are met, the charge will be amended to disorderly conduct, Schellgell said. A $443 forfeiture to the court will be d...

  • Township board approves mandated sewer rate hike

    Apr 20, 2017

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — Sewer rates in Ironwood Township are increasing at the end of May, after the Ironwood Township Board of Trustees approved a mandated rate increase Monday as part of the completion of the township’s Stormwater, Asset Management and Wastewater grant. “Tonight marks the end of the SAW grant project,” Randy Scott, with the engineering firm C2AE, said Monday. Scott explained the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, which oversees the SAW program, has several require...

  • That'll Do Pig

    Apr 20, 2017

  • Community calendar

    Apr 20, 2017

    Thursday, April 20 Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution, seniors, mothers, infants, children, 9:45-10 a.m. EST, Lake Gogebic Senior Center, Bergland; 10:20-10:35 a.m. EST, Porcupine Mountain Senior Center, White Pine; 11-11:45 a.m. EST, Holy Family Catholic Church parking lot, Ontonagon; 1:15-1:45 p.m. EST, Resource Center, Mass City; 2:15-2:45 p.m. EST, Stannard Township Ballpark, Bruce Crossing; 2:30-2:45 p.m., Watersmeet Town Hall parking lot, Watersmeet. 906-884-2106. Pickleball, 10 a.m. to noon, Ironwood... Full story

  • Lawrence Samardich

    Apr 20, 2017

    HURLEY, Wis. - Lawrence Samardich, 83, of Gile, passed away on Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at Villa Maria Health and Rehabilitation Center in Hurley. He was born March 11, 1934, in Gile, son of the late Robert and Myrtle (Wheeler) Samardich. He attended schools in Gile and Montreal and graduated from Hurley High School in 1952. Upon graduation, he attended Gogebic Community College where he received an associate degree in 1954. He then attended Northwest Institute of Technology in Minneapolis... Full story