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  • Bessemer City council hears public discussion on sewer rate increases

    Alissa Pietila|Mar 17, 2015

    BESSEMER — The Bessemer City Council chamber was filled with about a dozen members of the public on Monday evening, with public comment focused on sewer rate increases for the city customers. “This area here is depressed as it is and then you’re going to slap on all these fees on people,” said one concerned citizen. “There’s nobody that’s on fixed incomes that can afford that.” According to city manager Mike Uskiewicz, there is $5,265,000 in grants available to repair the sewer. “The remaining...

  • Ironwood board approves off campus privileges

    Richard Jenkins|Mar 17, 2015

    IRONWOOD - After a brief presentation by Student Senate President Robert Burchell, the Ironwood Area Schools Board of Education approved Burchell's request to expand the school's senior privileges at Monday's board meeting. The change to the policy - which allows the district's seniors who meet the requirements to leave campus for lunch - will extend the period of the privilege from the current week before graduation to begin April 1. Burchell's request did expand the requirements needed to...

  • Hurley students art featured in State Capitol Show

    Mar 17, 2015

    MADISON, Wis. - On Friday, March 6, seven Hurley high school students and art teacher Terry Davis visited Madison to attend the closing ceremony of the 2015 Youth Art Month State Capitol Show. The show was on display in the Capitol Rotunda Feb. 21-March 6. Artwork by students Julee Jackson, Patricia Smith and Cassidy Ofstad from the Hurley K-12 School was among more than 400 pieces of student work selected for the annual show. Students Samantha Recla, Lynda Waldros, Karissa Recla and A.J....

  • Community Calendar

    Mar 17, 2015

    Tuesday, March 17 Iron-Gogebic Integrated Family Services, 9-10:30 a.m., Iron County Courthouse, Hurley. 906-663-4045 or 715-561-2191. Wisconsin Veterans Employment Services Representative, 9-11:30 a.m., veterans service office, Hurley. 715-392-7808. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Blood Pressure Screening, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., with Regional Hospice nurses, Mill Street Garden, Bessemer. 906-663-0308. Ironwood Kiwanis Club, noon, Tacconelli’s. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Luther...

  • Eugene A. Martell

    Mar 17, 2015

    IRONWOOD, Mich. - Eugene A. Martell, age 90, of Larch Street in Ironwood, died Saturday, March 14, 2015, in Ironwood. He was born June 14, 1924, in Minneapolis, son of the late Fred and Anne (Schirmer) Martell. Eugene had lived in Gile, Wis., and was a longtime Ironwood resident. He had owned and operated Furnace Cleaning and Stovepipe Replacement in Ironwood. He then worked for Superior Bottled Gas, which later became Great Lakes Gas. He retired from Great Lakes Gas. On Oct. 3, 1946, he was...

  • Mary L. Brennan

    Mar 17, 2015

    WILDOMAR, Calif. - Mary Louise (Santini) Brennan, 86, died peacefully at her daughter's home in Wildomar at 3:19 a.m. on March 9, 2015. Mary Lou was born in Hurley, Wis., on August 10, 1928, and was raised in Bessemer, Mich. She moved with her late husband, Jack, to Anaheim in 1954 and to Murrieta in 1999. She is a beloved mother and grandmother (Nona) and is survived by her five children, Elizabeth, John, Mary, Terry and Linda; and seven grandchildren, Sean, Ian, Kelsey, Mikayla, Nick, Stacia...

  • Devil of a defeat

    Jason Juno|Mar 17, 2015

    MARQUETTE - Ironwood didn't have an answer for Iron Mountain's physical presence inside and the Red Devils' season ended in a 72-52 loss in Monday's Class C regional semifinal. The Moutaineers, 21-2 and ranked second in the final U.P. Class ABC poll of the season, started fast, leading 17-4 going into the second quarter. The Devils made three straight 3s to start the second and pull within 17-13, but Iron Mountain scored the next 15 points to thwart Ironwood's comeback effort. The Red Devils sea...

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