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Articles from the August 1, 2019 edition


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  • Four Shillings Short to perform at First Friday

    Aug 1, 2019

    IRONWOOD — Aurora Street will be blocked off in front of Carnegie Library for a concert event during First Friday’s festivities in Downtown Ironwood. The Four Shillings Short will be performing at the library from 5 to 7 p.m. followed by Josh Davis and May Erlewine singing on the stage of the Historic Ironwood Theatre at 7:30 p.m. “It will be a night full of music,” Lynne Wiercinski, director of the library said. Four Shillings Short plays traditional music from the Celtic lands, medieval and renaissance Europe, India and the Americas. “They a...

  • Lake Road to close for culvert replacement

    Aug 1, 2019

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - Lake Road will close starting Monday at Little Girl's Point while a culvert is replaced. The Gogebic County Road Commission announced Wednesday the road will be closed between the day parking area and the boat launch at the Point. Barry Bolich, the road commission manager, said the box culvert being replaced wasn't one of the ones destroyed in the July 2016 storm that caused numerous washouts on Lake Road at the Point. He said...

  • 4-H fair exhibits see increase

    Aug 1, 2019

    By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] SAXON, Wis. - A fair without 4-H is not much of a fair. Around 41 members of 4-H will present more than 250 projects at the Iron County Fair from Friday through Sunday in Saxon, the most in recent memory, said Neil Klemme, the area 4-H director and youth development educator for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Division of Extension. Members of the Hurley Lucky Clovers, the Iron County Green Team, the Saxon Emerald Knights and the Penokee Range...

  • Community calendar

    Aug 1, 2019

    Thursday, Aug. 1 Iron County Fair, Thursday-Sunday, Iron County Fairgrounds, Saxon. 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. 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; Lighthouse Faith...

  • Barbara Marie Mattila Setala

    Aug 1, 2019

    THUNDER BAY, Ontario — Barbara Marie Mattila Setala, 87, of Thunder Bay, passed away July 21, 2019. Barbara was born in Milwaukee, June 20, 1932, daughter of late Walter and Jeanne Wundrock. She was the mother of four sons: Eugene (Geri) Mattila of Wheatridge, Colo., James (Linda) Mattila of Middletown, N.Y., Mark (Jeanne) Mattila of Mosinee, Wis., and William (Candy) Mattila of Pitt Meadows, British Columbia. She was also grandmother of seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. She was greatly blessed by two wonderful nieces and n...