Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The city of Ironwood took the next step toward addressing manganese and water quality issues Monday by approving the go-ahead for grant applications for a proposed $9.7 million water treatment plant. The unanimous decision followed a public hearing where engineers who have studied Ironwood’s water system presented a preliminary engineering report that recommended a concrete, gravity filtered water treatment plant. “I recognize that this is a very expensive project but I think there... Full story
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] BESSEMER - A barber shop is often considered a centerpiece in the community conversation and a documentary film crew selected Misky's Haircuts in Bessemer to interview area residents on the topic of healthcare on Saturday. Filmmaker Christine Ryan Harland and her cinematographer James Q. Martin, of C'est Tout Films, based in Tuscon, Arizona, are traveling the country with University of Arizona physicians to record feedback from people in small...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area Schools continues to improve its bus fleet after the board of education approved purchasing two new buses and other equipment Monday. Along with the buses, the board approved purchasing a new radio repeater and three radios to help improve the district’s ability to communicate with its bus fleet. “The repeater, I’m really excited about,” Ironwood Superintendent Travis Powell said after the meeting. The district’s previous radio repeater died in 2007, according t...
HURLEY, Wis. - Willis Joseph Bertolino, 94, of Montreal passed away on April 6, 2020. He was born on St. Joseph's Day (the Patron Saint of Families), March 19, 1926, to Catholic parents, Peter and Evelyn (Blise) Bertolino in Pence. He attended school in Pence and Hurley. From 1944 to 1946 he served his country during World War II in the U.S. Army in Oahu, Hawaii, Guam, and Saipan in the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Theatre. Following the war, he worked in Montreal's iron ore mine for fifteen... Full story
Wakefield, Mich. - Patricia Treat Mills, 93, passed away peacefully on June 18, 2020, at Gogebic Medical Care Facility in Wakefield. She was born in Denver, Colorado on April 28, 1927. She attended Stanford University and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. It was in a science class at Berkeley that she was assigned a lab partner, Donald Mills, who went on to become her husband, on Sept. 9, 1949. They began their married life in Ann Arbor while he completed his degree in... Full story
BESSEMER, Mich. — Giorgina D. Buselli, 92, passed away peacefully at home with her children by her side on June 17, 2020. Giorgina was born in Perticano, Italy on Dec. 19, 1927, daughter of Ermino and Francesca (Gismodi) Profili. Growing up in a small village, the loss of her mother at a young age and the struggles and hardships that she and her siblings had experienced did not prevent her from speaking fondly of her younger years in Italy. At the age of 11, after her mother’s death, she was taught how to knit, crochet and sew by the nuns of... Full story
Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Wednesday, June 24 Christian Men of the Northland, 6:30 a.m., Uptown Cafe, Ironwood. Mentoring of Moms, 9-10:30 a.m., Range Community Bible Church, Hurley. 715-561-4355. Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. DOVE Support Group, noon-2 p.m. 906-932-4990. Ironwood-Hurley Rotary Club, 12:15 p.m., Elk and Hound Restaurant, Ironwood. Iron County Veterans Service Officer, 1-3 p.m., Mercer,... Full story
