Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected] BESSEMER — Festivities for Bessemer’s annual Fourth of July starts 7 p.m. tonight in the Pocket Park downtown with the Tree of Honor lighting ceremony. Linda Nelson, chair of the July 4th committee, said the ceremony is to honor military members of both past and present. Red, white and blue lights are hung on the tree and the donor’s name is put is put on a plaque, she said which is displayed in front of the tree during the duration of the festivities. In the past, the ceremony has also included musi...
By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] RAMSAY - Pouring rain, along with thunder and lightning, did not stop Gogebic County members of the Michigan Townships Association from meeting in the Ramsay Memorial Park for their Tuesday evening meeting. The local MTA branch meets six times per year and rotates its sessions among the following six membering townships: Watersmeet, Marenisco, Wakefield, Bessemer, Ironwood and Erwin. The gatherings are fairly casual, with members enjoying a hot supper...
TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY - Area youth started a six-week exploration of area historic sites on Wednesday with the purpose of learning more about what everyday life was like generations before them. The All Aboard for History Camp is a collaboration among area historic sites for students who have just finished the fourth- and fifth-grade, said Kristin Kolesar, board treasurer of the Iron County Museum and a fifth-grade teacher in Hurley. The camp visits sites through...
Thursday, June 27 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Patterson courts or Ironwood Memorial Building. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Wakefield City Hall; 1-2 p.m., Watersmeet Township; 2:45-3:15 p.m., Marenisco Township. 906-667-1110. “Bats of the Northwoods” reading program, 11 a.m., Mercer Public Library. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. SMART Recovery, 4:30 p.m., 101 E. Mary St., Bessemer. ReGeneration Youth, 5:30-6:45 p.m., ages 10-11; Relentless Youth, 7-9 p.m., ages 12-18; Lig...
IRONWOOD, Mich. - Donald P. Grenda, 89, long-time resident of Ironwood, passed away on Monday, June 24, 2019. Don was born on May 24, 1930 in Ironwood, son of late Peter and Josephine (Kropko) Grenda. He graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in 1948. He attended Gogebic Community College before enlisting in the Army, serving three years and receiving an Honorable Discharge in June 1952. On June 25, 1955, he married the love of his life, Ruth Lucas at St. Sebastian Church in Bessemer. Don...
ROCHESTER, Minn. - Sarah Ellen Mase-Wagner, 61, of Ontonagon, Mich. passed away Saturday evening, June 15, 2019, at the Mayo Clinic St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn. She was born Sept. 28, 1957 in Dayton, Ohio, the daughter of Robert and Jane (Paterson) Mase and was a longtime resident of Ontonagon. Sarah was a nationally recognized (2003) Soil Scientist with the U.S.D.A. Forest Service and a graduate of Virginia Tech University with a B.S. in Forestry. She was employed by the U.S. Forest...
WAKEFIELD, Mich. — Joseph Martin Ricca, 65, a lifelong resident of Wakefield, passed away Monday, June 24, 2019. Joseph was born on March 20, 1954, in Wakefield, the son of Gust Martin and Dorothy Marie (Delvis) Ricca. He enjoyed bicycling, working outdoors and his pets. Joseph is survived by two sisters, Catherine (Richard) Jerzak, Thiensville, Wis., and Nancy (James) Anderson, Grafton, Wis.; four nieces, Jodie Ritchie, Saukville, Wis., Bobbi Jo Jimenez, Thiensville, Nicole Fischer, Port Washington, Wis., and Lindsay Anderson, Cleveland, W...
