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Articles from the June 7, 2019 edition


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  • Lake Road to close for repairs

    Jun 7, 2019

    By Bryan Hellios [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - The Gogebic County Road Commission stated Lake Road will be closed for culvert replacement beginning 7 a.m. Monday through 4 p.m. June 22. The closure will be located approximately 11 miles north of Airport Road through Brace Road. Access to Little Girls Point County Park will require using Wisconsin State Highway 122 or Powers Road GCRC engineer for Phil Strong said. "It's (a segment of Powers Road) a narrow one lane road so it's...

  • DNR stocks trout at Saxon Harbor

    Jun 7, 2019

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] SAXON, Wis. — Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources crews were at Saxon Harbor Tuesday, releasing brown trout as part of the department’s continuing effort to stock Lake Superior and provide a popular fishery for local anglers. Approximately 27,000 Seeforellen brown trout — a specific strain of brown trout, according to the DNR’s website — were released into the lake just outside the harbor’s breakwall. “(The brown trout fishery) became really...

  • Bocce ball coming to Bessemer's Bluff Valley Park

    Jun 7, 2019

    By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] BESSEMER — The Bessemer Recreation Committee on Thursday approved 4-0 the instillation of a basic bocce ball court at Bluff Valley Park. It is believed that bocce ball as a recreational activity for some and a competition sport for others would be popular in the city, said Ron Zaleski, committee president. People are playing bocce ball in their yards and the hope is that courts in the parks will help grow that popularity, he said. John Turkal, a Bessemer resident and bocci ball aficionado, was p...

  • Community calendar

    Jun 7, 2019

    Friday, June 7 Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer Senior Center. 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. EST, 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, June 8 Union... Full story

  • Harold Byron Amos

    Jun 7, 2019

    ONTONAGON, Mich. - Harold Byron Amos, 80, of Ontonagon, passed away June 1, 2019 at Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital. Harold was born in Hancock to Harold J. and Hilma (Kuurila) Amos of Greenland on March 4, 1939. He was a 1957 graduate of Mass High School. He attended Suomi College and received his Bachelor of Science degree in education from Northern Michigan University, Marquette in 1962. He married Irene Kalivoda on Aug. 8, 1970, at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Greenland. As a youth,... Full story