Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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Friday, June 3 Ask the Master Gardener a Question, 10 a.m.-noon, Ironwood Pocket Park. Double Trouble, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Serenity Center, Ironwood. 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,... Full story
GURNEY, Wis. - God welcomed another angel into His kingdom on Tuesday, May 31, 2016. Michael G. Vargovich Sr., "Vargy," age 69, left this world surrounded by his loving family at home after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Michael was born Aug. 7, 1946, to the late George and Stella (Talkowski) Vargovich in Ironwood, Mich. He attended Luther L. Wright High School until his enlistment into the U.S. Army in 1963. Upon his return home, he was united in marriage to Denys Baribeau on June... Full story
MERCER, Wis. - Mercer eighth graders got the opportunity to visit three floating loon nest platforms Thursday as part of an Iron County Land and Water Conservation Department project. The students canoed out to nesting platforms located on three lakes - Fox, Deer and Grand Portage - in the Mercer area as part of the Loon and Lake project. In addition to observing the nests, some students took measurements of the lake's clarity, pH value, amount of oxygen and types of invertebrates. While loons h...
SAXON, Wis. - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' brown trout stocking program shifted to Saxon Harbor on Thursday. Trucks from the DNR's Brule Fish Hatchery arrived around noon with 25,000 browns that were released into the harbor and Lake Superior. That was good news because some area fishermen feared the brown trout stocking effort would be suspended at the harbor. Bill Gobin and Gervase Thompson stocked 6-inch fish from a truck with a tube near the main boat landing, while other...
HURLEY — Hurley waited six years to win another regional title. The Midgets only needed 4.5 innings — in the entire tournament — to break that drought and return to sectionals for the first time since 2010. The Midgets beat Drummond 11-0 in Thursday's WIAA Division 4 regional final. The top-seeded Midgets got a first-round bye and then advanced through the semifinal when No. 5 Washburn forfeited due to a class trip. Hurley then beat No. 2 Drummond, last year's D-4 regional champion, for the third time this season. Drummond had to use its ace p...
