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Articles from the November 8, 2019 edition


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  • Community calendar

    Nov 8, 2019

    Friday, Nov. 8 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, Nov. 9 Alcoholics...

  • Enbridge Energy gives pump station tour at Saxon facility

    Nov 8, 2019

    By KIM E. STROM [email protected] SAXON, Wis. - In an effort to be transparent, Enbridge Energy invited the media to attend a tour of its pump station in Saxon Thursday and was available to answer questions about its Line 5 and possible relocation project around the Bad River Reservation in Odanah, Wis. Line 5 is a 645-mile pipeline carrying light crude and natural gas liquids from Superior, Wis. to Sarnia, Ontario. According to Enbridge's website, in July the Bad River Band of Lake...

  • Paul D. Kangas

    Nov 8, 2019

    WAKEFIELD, Mich. - Paul Delano Kangas, 73, of Ironwood passed peacefully into the arms of Jesus on Nov. 5, 2019, at the Gogebic Medical Care Facility in Wakefield. He was born in Ironwood on Nov. 15, 1945, the son of John and Laina (Sipponen) Kangas. He attended Ironwood schools and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School. Paul joined the U.S. Army and served stateside during the Vietnam War. He worked for Michigan Bell Telephone Company as a technician for several years. Paul was an avid...

  • Wakefield municipal building gets AED for gym

    Nov 8, 2019

    By KIM E. STROM [email protected] WAKEFIELD - The city of Wakefield and AED Energy Partners, an AED company, have joined forces to install an automated external defibrillator in the city's municipal building. This collaboration is part of the Wakefield City Council's initiative to have an AED accessible in the municipal building, so that an individual in sudden cardiac arrest could receive life-saving shocks within minutes. AEDs are medical devices designed to provide an electrical...

  • Mercer dropped from tribal suit

    Nov 8, 2019

    By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] MERCER, Wis. — The town of Mercer is no longer a defendant in a tribal lawsuit brought against the state of Wisconsin and several northern municipalities, according to a report from attorney Fritz Schellgell at the Mercer Board of Supervisors meeting on Thursday. According to the lawsuit filed in 2018 at the U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin, Bands of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin including Lac Courte Oreilles, Lac Du Flambeau, Red Cliff and Bad River, are suing t...