Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By CHERYL SUNDBERG Special to the Daily Globe SILVER CITY - Organizers are busy getting ready for the 10th annual Porcupine Mountains Music Festival, presented by the Friends of the Porkies. The festival, held each year the weekend directly before Labor Day, is set for Aug. 22-24. More than 20 separate performers will be featured on two outdoor stages at the ski hill at Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park near Silver City. Also featured is a third stage, the acoustic Busking Barn - for a...
LONGUEIL, Quebec — Canadian exploration company Highland Copper Company announced Tuesday it had completed the interim closing of all the rights, title and interest of Copper Range Company, regarding the White Pine copper project. It was announced in November Highland was acquiring the former White Pine Mine, which is located in Ontonagon County. At the interim closing Tuesday, CRC received 3 million of Highland’s common shares for White Pine. In addition, Highland will also pay in cash or in common shares, one half of one cent per pound for...
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Individuals and students searching for employment, a career change or information on future career choices will benefit by attending the Rangewide Job/Career Fair set for Saturday. Velda Sclafani, community development coordinator of the Gogebic Ontonagon Community Action Agency, and Jon Parker, of State Farm Insurance Agency, organized the event. A lot of times people aren’t actively searching for new jobs, or employers aren’t advertising open positions, Sclafani said, but when a job fair is held people “come out of the woodwork.” Sclafani wor...
To the Editor: On Aug. 5, some voters in the area will go to the ballot box to vote on the dismantling of the Bessemer Area School District and the Wakefield-Marenisco School District under the auspices of a consolidation between them. Many questions have been raised by this undertaking. Here are some questions I’ve entertained and here are the straight answers I’ve collected to some of the queries. How much money will this cost? Answer: This is not known. Will this save money? Answer: This is not known. Will any funds be provided by out...
To the Editor: Diana West laments the “recurring and gratuitous slander of the late, great (Joseph) McCarthy” and claims we “owe” the man for his “unflagging courage” in her column printed in the Daily Globe May 3. Minimal apolitical historical research shows a much different person. Joseph McCarthy was an unsuccessful lawyer, a gambler, a liar and an alcoholic. When, as a Democrat, his party refused to slate him as a candidate for district attorney in the late 1930s, he switched political parties. He did join the Marines late in World War II,...
