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Articles from the August 26, 2019 edition


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  • Shooter's Club looks to grow

    Tom LaVenture|Aug 26, 2019

    IRONWOOD - A top gun event Saturday was a way to showcase new features at Superior Range Shooter's Club, said Gary Kusz, president. Mike Drier won the Top Gun event and received a trophy. Gary Lowe won second and Kusz won third - also receiving trophies. The organization started in 1978 and the new 34 acre pistol, rifle and trapshooting range opened on Black River Road near Copper Peak in 2004, he said. In 15 years the club has used grants and loans to build a $90,000 education center with...

  • Strong response to call for support at Danny B

    Tom LaVenture|Aug 26, 2019

    GILE, Wis. - It was perfect softball weather but organizers were playing with pain with the loss of Deloris Baross on the eve of Saturday's ninth annual Danny B Jack and Jill softball tournament. Baross was the mother of Danny Baross, the 31-year-old Erwin Township man for whom the tournament was named by friends who wanted to remember him after his death by suicide in 2009. She died on Friday. "Danny and my mom are watching from up above," said Lori Baross, a sister of Danny. "The only reason...

  • Jennie Mary (Frello) Ciesielczyk

    Aug 26, 2019

    WAKEFIELD, Mich. - Jennie Mary (Frello) Ciesielczyk, 97, of Bessemer, passed away on Aug. 21, 2019. A lifelong resident of Bessemer, Jennie was born Oct. 11, 1921, to John and Victoria Frello, immigrants from Asiago, Italy, and residents of Bessemer. She was a 1939 graduate of A.D. Johnson High School. She was the last surviving member of the 1938 Yale Sluggers softball team, which earned her a mention in the book, "A History of the Italian Immigrants from the Seven Towns of the Asiago Plateau... Full story

  • Community Calendar

    Aug 26, 2019

    Monday, Aug. 26 Iron County Food Pantry, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 72 Michigan Ave., Montreal, Wis. 715-561-4450. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Iron County Mobile Food Pantry, noon-1:30 p.m., Iron County Recycling-Iron County Forestry Parking Lot, 606-607 3rd Ave. North, Hurley. 715-561-2695. Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30 p.m., All Saints Lutheran Church, Wakefield. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. MECCA Ski Club, 6 p.m., ski chalet on Fierick Road, Mercer.... Full story

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