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Articles from the May 17, 2016 edition


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  • Northwoods Paving Company denied asphalt plant permit

    May 17, 2016

    By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER — With guidance by city attorney Michael Korpela, the Bessemer City Council Monday evening denied Northwoods Paving Company’s special use permit request to put an asphalt mixing plant on Tamarack Avenue. At a May 3 meeting, Eric Brye, of NPC, in Ashland, Wis., said the company applied for a special use permit to operate an asphalt mixing plant at Pat Steiger’s old sawmill plant, which is located within an M-1 district. He said the plant would also have been temporary, with plans to only...

  • Restitution ordered in forgery case

    May 17, 2016

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - A Hurley woman received a deferred entry of judgement and was ordered to pay $25,000 in restitution during an appearance in Iron County Court Monday. Patricia Ruth Wanden, 66, faced charges of forgery and a misdemeanor charge of theft through false representation in the case. Special prosecutor Fritz Schellgell accused Wanden of forging James Pierce's signature and cashing an insurance check made out to both Wanden and Pierce following a...

  • Hurley board approves 10-cent lunch price increase

    May 17, 2016

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - The Hurley K-12 Board of Education approved a 10-cent increase for the price of lunch at its meeting Monday. District Business Manager Michele Seibel told the board the increase was mandated by the federal government as the amount the district charged was below the average. "The idea is the Feds do not want us supplementing paid lunches with the higher reimbursement we get for the free and reduced meals," said Seibel. "So each year we have...

  • Community Calendar

    May 17, 2016

    Tuesday, May 17 Pickleball, 9-11 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. Iron-Gogebic Integrated Family Services, 9-10:30 a.m., Iron County Courthouse, Hurley. 906-663-4045 or 715-561-2191. Wisconsin Veterans Employment Services Representative, 9-11:30 a.m., veterans service office, Hurley. 715-392-7808. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Blood Pressure Screening, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., with Regional Hospice nurses, Mill Street Garden, Bessemer. 906-663-0308. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem...