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WAKEFIELD - The Wakefield-Marenisco School teachers and students are getting ready for annual state testing. Students will take grade-specific state tests during testing windows, which are scheduled from now through the end of May. The teaching staff worked together at an in-service earlier this year to create an action plan which would help to reduce student anxiety over state testing and ultimately increase state test scores for the district. Some of the activities the teaching staff came up...
By STEVE NEWMAN [email protected] MERCER - Readers took advantage of the opportunity to get good books for low prices Saturday at the Mercer Friends of the Library used book sale. According to Teresa Schmidt, the library director, the book sale is one of several pathways that are used by the Friends of the Library to fund special projects to improve the library for its patrons. "The Friends of the Library provides money for the things that are not in our regular budget." Some examples of...
By STEVE NEWMAN [email protected] IRONWOOD — Residents of the area were treated to a chance to think about spring and summer with the Sport and Recreation Show Friday-Sunday at the Pat O’Donnell Civic Center on the Gogebic Community College campus. John Warren, general manager of Heartland Communications Group in Ashland, has put together the show for the past eight years. Warren was pleased with the vendors who came to take part in the show, and particularly the variety of vendors. He stated “we have a variety, from boats, campe...
Monday, April 16 Spring Tai Chi classes, 9 a.m., Mercer Community Center. Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, Wis. 715-561-4450. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency food commodity distribution, seniors, 9 a.m.-noon, 100 Mill St., Bessemer. 906-667-0283. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Chess Club, 4 p.m. Grades 3 and up. Carnegie Library, Ironwood. Overeaters Anonymous, 5 p.m., All Saints Lutheran Church, Wakefield. Adult Poetry Group, 5:30 p.m., Carnegie Library,...