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Articles from the September 5, 2018 edition


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  • Students head back to class

    Sep 5, 2018

    By JEAN NORDINE [email protected] EWEN - Kids across the region headed back to class Tuesday. The halls were a bustling at the Ewen-Trout Creek school on the opening day of the 2018-19 school year. A "School Rocks!" poster, created by juniors Gracie Witt and Paige Berglund, was in the elementary wing and featured a school desk at which the children sat to have their pictures taken. Outside the building sported new black and gold pennant flags, E-TC's school colors. There are a total...

  • Lower bond denied in clinic threat case

    Sep 5, 2018

    By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] HURLEY — A motion to lower a Kimball, Wis., man’s bond on a terroristic threat charge was denied Tuesday morning in Iron County Court. Robert “Barrel Bob” Gollubske, 81, had his bond continued at $10,000 by Iron County Judge Patrick Madden. Gollubske is alleged to have told the clerk in the waiting area at the Marshfield Clinic in Mercer on Aug. 2, “I can blow this place up and get away with it,” causing fear among employees at the clinic. He had been previously told he was no longer welcome at the cli...

  • Mated for life

    Sep 5, 2018

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  • No new judge needed in Gogebic escape case

    Sep 5, 2018

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HOUGHTON — Gogebic County Circuit Judge Michael Pope can continue to preside over the case of an inmate accused of escaping from the Gogebic County Jail, after 12th Circuit County Judge Charles Gibson affirmed Pope’s denial of a defense motion that he recuse himself. Daniel G. Ferguson, 27, of Mercer, is facing three breaking and entering charges and one count of escaping jail while awaiting trial on a felony after authorities say he escaped from the Gogebic County Jail the evening of June 19, 201...

  • Community calendar

    Sep 5, 2018

    Wednesday, Sept. 5 Christian Men of the Northland, 6:30 a.m., Uptown Cafe, Ironwood. Iron County Health Department Walk In Clinic, 8:30 a.m.-noon, Health Department. Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Gogebic-Ontonagon Community Action Agency quarterly food commodity distribution for registered families, noon-2:30 p.m. EST, fire hall, Bruce Crossing; 2-4:30 p.m. EST, 429 River St., Ontonagon. 906-667-0283. DOVE Support Group, noon-2 p.m. 906-932-4990. Ironwood-Hurley Rotary Club, 12:15 p.m.,...