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Articles from the October 5, 2019 edition


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  • Chamber credits community with saving Hiawatha

    Oct 5, 2019

    By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Hiawatha renovation was officially concluded Friday with a rededication ceremony and ribbon-cutting by the Ironwood Area Chamber of Commerce, which owns the 50-foot statue on Burma Road. "About 50 years ago I stood and watched the statue being put in place," said Ironwood City Commission member Rick Semo. "It was an amazing sight. For years Hiawatha has overlooked the town and has been a symbol of this area." Semo said the...

  • Plaidurday fills downtown

    Oct 5, 2019

    By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD - First Friday October could have doubled as the feast of flannel as people filled Aurora Street to take part in "Plaidurday". Hundreds of people in all colors and combinations of plaid shirts, coats, hats and other apparel filled Aurora between Lowell and Suffolk streets as photographers and videographers clicked away from rooftops and camera drones zoomed above. It was part of an effort to get all of the Upper Peninsula communities to...

  • Mercer gets new postmaster

    Oct 5, 2019

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] MERCER, Wis. — The town of Mercer has a new postmaster after Niki Bock was sworn in Friday afternoon in front of the town’s post office. As postmaster, Bock will oversee the general operations of the post office. “I do everything from throw mail to take customer complaints,” she said after the brief ceremony. Anything (the customers) need … help with. I pretty much oversee everything.” Bock, who is from Hurley, said she started her seven-year career with the U.S. Postal Service as a mail carrie...

  • Community Calendar

    Oct 5, 2019

    Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, Oct. 5 Union Station Food Pantry and Northern Food Bank, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 252 E. Ayer St., Ironwood. Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Community Pickleball Paddlers, 2-5 p.m., Mercer School gymnasium. 715-776-4588. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Sunday, Oct. 6 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, I...