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Articles from the June 11, 2019 edition


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  • Community calendar

    Jun 11, 2019

    Tuesday, June 11 Pickleball, 9 a.m.-noon, Patterson courts or Ironwood Memorial Building. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Friends of the Mercer Public Library, 10 a.m., library, Mercer, Wis. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Golden Dragon. Bessemer American Legion Post 27, 5 p.m., American Legion, Bessemer. Bessemer American Legion Auxiliary, 5 p.m., Bessemer American Legion. Ironwood American Legion Post 5,...

  • Light Bulb Moment

    Jun 11, 2019

  • Mary Elizabeth Brunelle

    Jun 11, 2019

    IRONWOOD — Mary Elizabeth Brunelle, 100, of Ironwood, passed away June 7, Mary was a lifetime resident of Ironwood, and she graduated from Luther L. Wright School in 1938. Afterwards, she attended Gogebic Community College. She was a part of the Holy Trinity Altar Society CCD and was the President of Marquette Diocese Council of Catholic Women. She was an avid bowler in the Range Area Bowling league in Hurley, Wis. and was a member of The Eagle Bluff Golf Club. Mary was very fond of sewing, crocheting, and knitting. She was preceded in death...

  • Ironwood Township to seek sewer bids

    Jun 11, 2019

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — The Ironwood Township Board of Trustees approved seeking bids for a sewer project Monday evening. An approximately 180-foot section of the sewer line between GCC Drive and Lake Road needs to be replaced, according to Treasurer Maria Graser. “It’s been an issue now for probably the last 4 years, it’s getting a little bit worse,” Graser reported, adding the line has problems backing up. There had been plans to address the problem a couple years ago, Graser said, but...

  • Wakefield council grants raise to campground hosts

    Jun 11, 2019

    By P.J. GLISSON [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The Wakefield City Council voted Monday evening to double the compensation of campground hosts for the Eddy Park Campground on Sunday Lake. According to city manager Rob Brown, the city in past years has paid the hosts $1 for each reservation generated. As of Monday's vote, that rate now will be $2 per reservation. Jim Anderson was the only council member to vote against the raise, but he said afterward that it was only because he expected the...

  • Drivers fired, hired for local garbage pickup

    Jun 11, 2019

    By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] RAMSAY — Recent disruption of garbage pickup to six municipalities has led to the dismissal of two drivers and hiring of their replacements, according to the supervisor’s report of the Bessemer Township Board on Monday. “We have two new hires,” said Jeffery Randall, supervisor of Bessemer Township. “They will be officially sanctioned at a special board meeting Thursday night.” The two former drivers were dismissed from the Gogebic Range Solid Waste Management Authority, the garbage...

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