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Articles from the August 12, 2021 edition


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  • Gogebic County Fair opens today

    Aug 12, 2021

    By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - The centennial Gogebic County Fair opens today and runs through Sunday in Ironwood. K&M Amusement will provide the midway rides and carnival throughout all four days of the fair. The rides are included with a paid gate admission. There will also be horse drawn wagon rides throughout the fair. Harness racing continues to be a fair tradition with trotters and pacers circling the half-mile track in events starting at 1 p.m. Friday and 11...

  • Wakefield commissioners discuss ongoing blight issues

    Aug 12, 2021

    By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The subject of blight was a priority for members of the Wakefield Planning Commission at its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday evening. That’s in part because City Manager Robert Brown, Jr. and other city workers, as well as a contractor with a semitrailer, had worked all day to clear a Plymouth site that had haunted the city extendedly. “This has been going on about 14 years,” said Brown, who noted that he had just received, in the past month, a court order to address the quarter...

  • Community Calendar

    Aug 12, 2021

    Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Thursday, Aug. 12 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Patterson Courts, Ironwood. If rain: Memorial Building. St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry and Financial Assistance, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., located behind Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. 906-932-4325. 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,... Full story

  • James J. Gerovac

    Aug 12, 2021

    BLOOMINGDALE, Ill. — James J. Gerovac, 82, of Bloomingdale, Illinois, passed away on Aug. 8, 2021. James was the beloved husband of the late Karen S. Gerovac; the devoted father of Gregory Gerovac, Nicholas (Jill) Gerovac and Michael Gerovac; the loving son of the late Nicholas and Mary Gerovac; the dear brother of the late Loretta Schmitt; and dear grandfather of Joshua, Jacob, Jason, Mary and Nicholas Gerovac. A visitation for James will be held on Thursday, Aug. 12, from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Salerno’s Rosedale Chapel, in Roselle, Ill... Full story