Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By KIM E. STROM [email protected] BESSEMER - Just outside the old tennis court at Bluff Valley Park in Bessemer where now lays a full skatepark, is what's called a pump track. A pump track is a series of hills and banked turns designed for bikers. "It's called a pump track because essentially you enter it with the speed you're comfortable with and its features are made so you can carry that speed through the whole thing without peddling. Riders 'pump' down on the hills to gain speed and...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] MERCER, Wis. - The Hurley School's field biology class was in Mercer Thursday for a day of land and water conservation at Little Turtle Flowage and MECCA Trailhead. Diane O'Krongly, who teaches field biology at Hurley High School, said this class spends three hours a week helping clear the school property of buckthorn. It's an active class and that is why she requested the field trip to learn more about the importance of a diverse woodlands. "This...
By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The western Upper Peninsula will experience a large low pressure front this weekend but not with the same severity as in Minnesota and North Dakota. The center of the system brought the worst weather on Thursday and Friday to western Minnesota, the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Southern Manitoba, said Steve Gohde, the observing program leader and hydrologist at the National Weather Service office in Duluth. Some of the cold air from that system is moving north east and the G...
Saturday, Oct. 12 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. 13 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.... Full story
HURLEY, Wis. - Peter "Pupsy" Savant, 88, of Hurley, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. Peter was born on March 30, 1931, in Bessemer Township, Mich., a son of Bert and Adele (Frola) Savant. He graduated in 1949 from the J.E. Murphy High School in Hurley and was very proud to be a member of the 1949 Hurley Midget state champion basketball team. Pupsy had been twice inducted into the Hurley High School Hall of Fame. Peter proudly served his country in the U.S. Army from September 1952 to Septemb... Full story
KENOSHA, Wis. - Albert Halweg, 96, of Mercer, Wis. passed away on Sept. 26, 2019 surrounded by his loving family. Albert was born in Waukegan, Ill. on Feb. 7, 1923. He married Eleanor "Sally" Heim in the Aug. of 1947 in Waukegan. Then he worked at OMC/Johnson Motors for 47 years as a plant manager. Albert was a proud Veteran of the United States Air Force where he served and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. Albert was a member of the Redeemer Lutheran Church of Waukegan and loved fishing,... Full story
