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Articles from the November 1, 2019 edition


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  • Kids brave cold for Halloween frights, fun

    Nov 1, 2019

    By KIM E. STROM [email protected] Halloween may be the spookiest night of the year, but it didn't scare kids of all ages from coming out to enjoy the fun, and neither did the chilly weather. Hundreds of children were treated to a sweet Halloween by local folks willing to brave the cold to make sure they had a fun and safe holiday. The fun started early at the Gogebic Medical Care Facility in Wakefield where residents and staff dressed up to hand out candy. "It's been a long-standing...

  • Final Mercer murder defendant takes plea deal

    Nov 1, 2019

    By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY - Curtis A. Wolfe, 28, of Lac du Flambeau, appeared in Iron County Court Thursday and pleaded to his role in the 2017 murder of a Lac du Flambeau man. Wolfe entered no-contest pleas to being a party to the crime of second degree reckless homicide by omission, being a party to the crime of hiding a corpse, being a felon in possession of a weapon, and being the party to a crime of harboring or aiding a felon. "I have reviewed the criminal...

  • Ironwood holds First Furry Friday

    Nov 1, 2019

    By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — Kick off November by attending First Friday events tonight from 5 to 7:30 p.m. in downtown Ironwood. The Nov. 1 event is to be known as “Furry Friday” as H.O.P.E. Animal Shelter will bring shelter animals to promote awareness of the need for forever homes from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. The animals will be on Aurora Street, including dogs on the lot next to Mattson’s TV and Appliance, and cats at the entrance to the Historic Ironwood Theatre. The Historic Ironwood Theater is screening “Young...

  • Community calendar

    Nov 1, 2019

    Friday, Nov. 1 Mercer Cribbage, 9:30 — 11:30 a.m., Mercer Senior Center. Double Trouble, 11 a.m. — 12:30 p.m., Serenity Center, Ironwood. Mercer Food Pantry, noon — 1 p.m., Railroad Street, Mercer, Wis. Emergencies: 715 — 476 — 7655. Alcoholics Anonymous/ Al — Anon, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Harbortown AA, 7:30 p.m. EST, Ontonagon United Methodist Church basement, next to Holiday gas station, Ontonagon. area74.org. Alcoholics Anonymous, 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Saturday, N...

  • Lorraine Shirley (Perrow) Tarvas

    Nov 1, 2019

    APPLETON, Wis. - Lorraine Shirley (Perrow) Tarvas, 75, from White Pine, Mich., and the retirement residence of Mesa, Ariz., joined our Lord on the afternoon of Oct. 30, 2019, after experiencing a sudden illness. She was treated at both the Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital and St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton, surrounded by her loving family. Lorraine was born to William and Cecil Perrow on Aug. 16, 1944, in Baraga, Mich. She was the youngest of six children and grew up in the Alston area. She went...