Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] GILE, Wis. - As the weather warms up, members of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are preparing for another season of work intended to improve panfish populations in the Gile Flowage. Included in those efforts is the cutting down around 100 trees, according to Fisheries Biologist Zach Lawson, to improve habitat. Lawson said about 20 percent were felled in November, "While we still had open water. We were able to squeeze it in between...
By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] BESSEMER — Gogebic County Board of Commissioners members on Wednesday authorized signing of a summer airport project resolution that won’t be affected by federal budget cuts. The county board authorized its chairman, George Peterson, of Watersmeet, to sign an agreement between the Hunt and Mead firm and the county for the terminal apron rehabilitation project at the Gogebic-Iron County Airport in Ironwood Township. A resolution was presented to the board by airport manager Mike Harma. Com...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] IRONWOOD - Ironwood's second graders spent part of the last two weeks working on a project about penguins, but rather than learn from their teachers, the students were taught by some of the district's high schoolers. The students were from the district's business information technology class, according to second grade teacher Michelle Trier. Trier said the project was developed after she and Tess Paakola, who teaches the technology class,...
Saturday, March 25 Community Pickleball Paddlers, 8:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer School gymnasium. 715-776-4588. Regional Hospice Polar Plunge, registration 12:30 p.m., event 2 p.m., Sunday Lake, Wakefield. Free Supper, 5-6 p.m., Apostolic Lutheran Church, Aurora Street, Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Sunday, March 26 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. Finnish Language Classes, beginner 3 p.m., advanced 4 p.m., Little Finland, Kimball, Wis. R... Full story
IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Nelmi Lorraine Martinson, 86, joined her Lord in Heaven on March 24, 2017. She was born in Ironwood Township on June 29, 1930, to Richard E. and Mary Wilhemina (Spetz) Niemi, the second of five children. She grew up on a farm in Ironwood Township and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School School, Ironwood, in 1948. She worked at Wilsie's White Birch Lodge during the summer, where she met her future husband. Nelmi and Carl (Rudy) Martinson were married on Jan. 28,... Full story
WAKEFIELD, Mich. – Donald "Don" Singleton, 76, a long-time resident of Wakefield, passed away peacefully Thursday afternoon, March 23, 2017, at his home, surrounded by his loving family. Don was born on March 9, 1941, in Ironwood, a son of Clarence R. and Anne (Kasieta-Popko) Singleton. He attended Ironwood Schools. Don enrolled at Gogebic Community College in the building trades program and was on the dean's list. On July 5, 1958, Don was united in marriage to the love of his life, Patricia "... Full story
WINNECONNE, Wis. — Mary Elizabeth Trezise Johnson Hurdle passed away on March 15, 2017, in Winneconne. A graduate of Northwestern University’s School of Nursing, she was born in 1929 to Arthur and Myrtle Trezise in Ironwood, Mich. She is survived by her husband, Don Hurdle; three children, Debbie (Steve) Viktora, Winnetka, Ill., David (Shelley) Johnson, Rockford, Ill., and Dr. Phillip (Molly) Johnson, Winneconne; her brother, Dr. Robert (Joan) Trezise, Lansing; six grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; a niece and two nephews; and her cou... Full story
