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Articles from the June 25, 2019 edition


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  • Kids get week of professional theater experience

    Jun 25, 2019

    By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - A week-long youth theater internship at the Historic Ironwood Theatre concludes with a zany retelling of "Sleeping Beauty," as a 1930s Hollywood comedy-musical. Around 60 kids ages 7 to 18 showed up early Monday morning to audition as actors, singers, dancers and everything in-between. Organizers from Prairie Fire Children's Theatre said the most important quality while auditioning was a willingness to have fun and participate in the...

  • Appraiser gives old Wakefield City Hall thumbs down

    Jun 25, 2019

    By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Property appraiser Tom Williams said Monday evening that he wishes he had better news about the now vacant Wakefield City Hall that still stands with sad pride on the town's Sunday Lake Street. "Unfortunately, it is what it is," he said to council members, who voiced no surprise. The council hired Williams, of the R.T. Williams Agency, Inc. in Ironwood, in the spring to inspect the hall. The result was his presentation of a related 28-page...

  • Ironwood board hears fund balance growing, passes budget

    Jun 25, 2019

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD — The numbers may not be where the district wants them to be, but they are trending in the right direction. That’s the message the Ironwood Area Schools’ board of education heard Monday regarding the district’s fund balance as the board approved the final round of budget amendments for the current fiscal year and passed next year’s budget. Although the exact numbers won’t be finalized until the annual audit is complete, Superintendent Travis Powell said the district’s fund balance grew...

  • Community calendar

    Jun 25, 2019

    Tuesday, June 25 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Patterson courts or Ironwood Memorial Building. Mercer Area Sno-goers Board, 9 a.m., groomer barn. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Breakfast For Your Brain, 10 a.m., Mercer, Wis., Community Center. 715-561-2695. Moonshadow Troy Graham kids concert, 11 a.m., Depot Park. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Golden Dragon. Awkward Stage Drama Club Summer Camp, grades 6-12, 1...

  • Gerald D.W. Olson

    Jun 25, 2019

    IRONWOOD, Mich. - Gerald D.W. Olson, 83, a lifelong resident of Ironwood Township, passed away peacefully Friday, June 21, 2019. Gerald was born on Nov. 8, 1935, in Ironwood, a son of Frank and Maymie (Greku) Olson. He graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in Ironwood in 1953. During his teen years, he loved going to work summers at the Greku family farm in Mankato, Minn. After high school, he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education from the University of...

  • Marshall D. Blaskowski

    Jun 25, 2019

    SCHOFIELD, Wis. - Marshall D. Blaskowski, 87, of Schofield, passed away at his home on Wednesday, June 12, 2019. Marshall was born Oct. 4, 1931 in Bessemer, Mich., the son of David J. and Sigrid L. (Maki) Blaskowski. They came to Hatley when he was 10. Marshall graduated from Wittenberg High School in 1949 and served in the United States Air Force as a Radio Operator on B-29 during the Korean War from 1950 to 1954. Marshall was united in marriage to Janet S. Delikowski on Oct. 22, 1955 at St....

  • Gerald 'Jerry' Everett Moren

    Jun 25, 2019

    IRONWOOD, Mich. - Gerald "Jerry" Everett Moren, of Ironwood, passed away at his home with his family by his side on June 21, 2019. He was a life long resident of Ironwood and a graduate of Luther L. Wright School in 1956. From there he worked with Globe Concrete, Armour Construction, White Pine Copper Mine, and retired from the city of Ironwood in 1983. Jerry was a life long fan of his beloved Green Bay Packers. He truly enjoyed spending time with his family as well as fishing, hunting, and...

  • William J. Sikonia

    Jun 25, 2019

    WAUSAU, Wis. - Army SSG William J. Sikonia, 62, a former resident of Erwin Township, Mich., passed away Thursday evening, June 20, 2019, under the hospice care of the Mount View Care Center in Wausau, with family and friends by his side. Bill was born on Nov. 30, 1956, in St. Paul, Minn., to William and former wife, Marilyn (Lingofelt) Sikonia. He attended several local area schools and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in 1975. Bill bravely battled through a blood and bone cancer...