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  • Ontonagon County Fair winners crowned

    Jul 30, 2019

    GREENLAND - The Ontonagon County Fair was held Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Adventure Mountain Complex in Greenland. The first Adventure Amateur Idol competition at the Ontonagon County Fair saw many entries and an enthusiastic audience Friday night, according to fair officials. Kaitlyn Gielpse took home the first place and $100. She was followed by Kylee Uotila and third place by Lexie Voigt. The large audience voted for the winners. The fair also sponsored Glitz and Glam Princess...

  • Classmates lost to suicide remembered with donation

    Jul 30, 2019

    By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY, Wis. — Members of the 2009 Hurley High School class reunion wanted to do something meaningful to remember two former students who were lost to suicide and so raised more than $4,000 for the Gogebic Range Suicide Prevention Council. The reunion committee set up a Hurley Class of 2009 Suicide Prevention Mission page at gofundme.com that has so far received $3,400 from 54 people as of Monday, said Jay Aijala, a 2009 graduate. The class r...

  • Erwin Township joins federal flood insurance program

    Jul 30, 2019

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] ERWIN TOWNSHIP — Erwin Township residents are now able to purchase federal flood insurance. The township became eligible to participate in the “emergency phase” of the National Flood Insurance Program May 29, according to an announcement of the news. The emergency phase is a community’s initial participation in the program when there are coverage limits in place. Cassie Ringsdorf, a FEMA Region 5 spokesperson, said the emergency phase can mean no flood hazard information is available for a communi...

  • Community calendar

    Jul 30, 2019

    Tuesday, July 30 Mercer Sno-Goers, 9 a.m., groomer barn. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Golden Dragon. Butterfly Event, 2 p.m., Miners Memorial Park (enter via compost site road. Mountain Biking Group, 6 p.m., Copper Peak. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, Ironwood. area74.org. Government Gogebic Community College Board, 4:30 p.m., room...

  • Paula Ann Barbacovi

    Jul 30, 2019

    BESSEMER, Mich. - After a short battle with cancer, Paula Ann Barbacovi, 56, a longtime resident of Bessemer, died peacefully Friday afternoon, July 26, 2019, at Essentia Health–St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth, Minn., with her loving family by her side. Paula was born on Sept. 27, 1962, in Bessemer Township, a daughter of Timothy Prospero and Patricia Kleimola. She graduated from J.E. Murphy High School in Hurley, Wis., with the class of 1980. Paula continued her education at Gogebic C...