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Articles from the June 22, 2018 edition


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  • Community calendar

    Jun 22, 2018

    Friday, June 22 Coffee With a Cop, 8 a.m., Mike’s Restaurant, Ironwood. 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. Ironwood Carnegie Library Board, 4 p.m. 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 A... Full story

  • Gogebic County added to emergency declaration

    Jun 22, 2018

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] LANSING — While it may not have sustained as much damage as some of the other counties, Gogebic County will also be able to use additional resources when rebuilding after Gov. Rick Snyder directed it be added to the state of disaster declaration from this weekend’s storms. Snyder directed Michigan State Police to add the county to the original disaster declaration issued Monday for Houghton and Menominee counties. “The residents of these three counties have experienced significant hardship since...

  • Irene Rosemarie Groesbeck

    Jun 22, 2018

    WAKEFIELD, Mich. — Irene Rosemarie Groesbeck, age 92, a resident of Wakefield, and formerly of Bessemer and Warren, died Wednesday, June 13, 2018, at the Gogebic Medical Care Facility in Wakefield. Irene was born Oct. 17, 1925, in Cincinnati, Ohio, daughter of the late Francis and the late Elizabeth (Erdy) Welter. While a teenager, Irene, along with her family, moved to Ferndale. She is a graduate of St. James Catholic High School. Upon graduation, Irene modeled briefly for the Gail and Rice M... Full story

  • Inaugural 'Across the Borders' walk held

    Jun 22, 2018

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - Described by some participants as "trick-or-treating for seniors," the Iron County Human Services Department held the inaugural Across the Borders Senior Informational and Awareness walk Thursday. The event - which was organized by the Iron County Human Services Department and the Aging and Disability Resource Center - ran from the Hurley Trailhead off Second Avenue to Depot Park in Ironwood on the non-motorized trail. Participants were...

  • Patritto to retire; Genisot to step in

    Jun 22, 2018

    HURLEY - The Hurley School Board decided Monday there will be no long search to replace district administrator Chris Patritto, who will retire a year from now. Coming out of a closed session, the board announced it had agreed to hire Kevin Genisot as district administrator, effective June 30, 2019. Genisot is currently employed as elementary principal at the K-12 school. He started off as an elementary teacher at Hurley and became principal in 2012. Genisot, who graduated in 1997 from Hurley...