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Articles from the October 7, 2020 edition


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  • Michigan budget holds line on school funding

    Oct 7, 2020

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] LANSING — Local education officials can breathe a sigh of relief after the state budget Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed last week didn’t contain any of the funding reductions they feared. Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District Superintendent Alan Tulppo and the superintendents of the GOISD member districts had warned a budget that included steep reductions in per-pupil funding could cripple their efforts to provide an education to students in their districts. Instead, the budget for the fis... Full story

  • Bessemer approves US2 detour route

    Oct 7, 2020

    By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] BESSEMER — After hearing public opinion and much discussion, the Bessemer City Council approved detour routes for the upcoming U.S. 2 reconstruction project planned for 2021-22. The two routes — one east to west and the other west to east — will be used in 2022, and were originally discussed by the board with Michigan Department of Transportation officials at a September meeting. The routes were approved 4-1, with only councilman Bill McDonald dissenting during Monday’s regular meeting. McDonal...

  • Hurley School is live-streaming sports on NFHS Network

    Oct 7, 2020

    By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] HURLEY - The Hurley K-12 School has come up with a way to provide public access to sports and other events through a live-feed video subscription service. With the COVID-19 shut down orders, the impact to sports and other school events is to limit or deny any fan participation. Cameras now installed in the high school gym and at Veterans Memorial Field will allow viewers to live-stream games or watch archived games at a more convenient time. "This...

  • Community Calendar

    Oct 7, 2020

    Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Wednesday, Oct. 7 Alcoholics Anonymous, open meeting, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Ironwood-Hurley Rotary Club, 12:15 p.m., Elk and Hound Restaurant, Ironwood. Iron County Veterans Service Officer, 1-3 p.m., Mercer, Wis., Town Hall. 715-561-2190. Mercer Health and Wellness Pickleball, 3-6 p.m., Mercer Community Center. Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m., Sharon Lutheran Church, Bessemer. area74.org. Alzheimer’s Disease C... Full story

  • Ruth Marie Kettula

    Oct 7, 2020

    WAKEFIELD, Mich. — Ruth Marie Kettula, 94, of Ironwood, went to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in the morning of Sept. 29, 2020, at the Gogebic Medical Care Facility in Wakefield. Ruth was born on Feb. 20, 1926, daughter of the late John William Kyrola (1895-1981) and Fannie Marie Jokiletho Kyola (1894-1994) of Finland and Ramsay. Ruth attended elementary school in Ramsay and graduated from A.D. Johnston High School in Bessemer with the Class of 1943. After graduation during World War II she worked for National Airlines in J... Full story

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