Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - Area first responders and health professionals were treated to lunch on Friday by the freemasons. Members of the Ironwood Masonic Lodge No. 389 put on their Masonic aprons, a symbol of fraternal distinction, to deliver pizzas to Gogebic County Sheriff's Department, Aspirus Ironwood Hospital and Clinic, Beacon Ambulance Services and Ironwood Public Safety Department. "This is the first time we've done it," said Jeff Nielsen, the senior... Full story
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] Those voters in Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District who haven’t already cast their absentee ballots head to polls today to decide who will represent them in Washington for the next term. Republican Tom Tiffany is facing off against Democrat Tricia Zunker in the contest to replace Sean Duffy, who represented the 7th District for nearly eight years before retiring this past September to spend more time with his family. The seat has been vacant since Duffy’s retirement. Tiffany, from Hazel...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] IRONWOOD — Gogebic Community College held its 86th annual commencement in a virtual style due to social distancing guidelines on Friday. “Although this may be a new experience for all of us, I can assure you that everyone here at GCC has worked very hard to find the best way to honor all you have accomplished here and to make this occasion very special,” instructor Maria Sokol said in her commencement address as part of the online presentation. The Governor’s stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus p...
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Tuesday, May 12 Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, Ironwood. area74.org. Government Bessemer School Board, 2 p.m., special meeting, available online on Zoom. Gogebic County Road Commission, 3 p.m., budget workshop, Courthouse Annex, Bessemer. Montreal City Council, 5:30 p.m., city hall. Iron County Law Enforcement Committee, 5:30... Full story
IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. - Terrance K. "Terry" Lindholm, also known as the Jolly Green Giant or Mr. Green Jeans, 79, of Kingsford, passed away Wednesday, May 6, 2020, at the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain. Terry was born Jan. 31, 1941, in Norway, son of the late John and Ada (Hammill) Lindholm. As an 8-year-old child, Terry took the opportunity to show off the survival skills taught to him by his father by surviving a night in the woods alone, even making himself a bed of... Full story
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Ronald J. Strand, 89, a longtime resident of Ironwood Township and St. Augustine, Florida, passed away early Saturday morning, May 9, 2020, at his home. Ronald was born on June 13, 1930, in Roselle, Illinois, and moved to Michigan with his parents at the age of seven. He graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in Ironwood in 1948. On Aug. 25, 1951, Ronald was united in marriage to Joan M. Heenan at Salem Lutheran Church in Ironwood. Ronald worked at the Cary Mine,... Full story
