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Articles from the December 14, 2019 edition


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  • Porcupine Mountains entrance road work continues

    Dec 14, 2019

    LANSING - The work to protect the main east access road to Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park is continuing in the face of violent late fall storms off Lake Superior. County Road 107 will be closed west of South Boundary Road while work is underway. A search for a long-term solution to the problem continues. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Ontonagon County Road Commission have teamed up to protect County Road 107 to ensure continued east access to the 60,000-acre...

  • Deck the halls

    Dec 14, 2019

    Jason Juno/Daily Globe The Hurley School District's Spirit tree stands in front of the school Thursday evening. The PTO uses the tree as a fundraiser. The lights were sponsored by people either honor a student, or are in memory of someone. The PTO uses the money to help cover the cost of field trips and other classroom activities. The tree was lit on Dec. 4 at an event that included a performance by Silver Express, and hot chocolate and cookies....

  • Former paperboy remembers time at Globe

    Dec 14, 2019

    By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] The Daily Globe's 100th anniversary special edition of Nov. 18 got Dean Gustafson of Mercer thinking about a memento of his youth. He grew up in Hurley and was a paperboy for the Daily Globe for a few years including his freshman year in high school. That year for Christmas, the newspaper presented each of its carries with a six-foot tape measure. On Tuesday, Gustafson brought the tape measure to the Daily Globe's office, offering it to be put on...

  • Rethinking business education events

    Dec 14, 2019

    By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD — The purpose of a chamber of commerce is to provide resources that will help members improve at what they do — but there needs to be interest and participation. Business box lunches and the occasional professional event are all part of producing quality learning experiences that would benefit individual business owners, said Michael Meyer, director of the Ironwood Area Chamber of Commerce. The idea is to create a social networking experience among business owners with an expert speaker or...

  • Community Calendar

    Dec 14, 2019

    Email calendar items and community news to [email protected]. For more information, call 906-932-2211. Saturday, Dec. 14 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, Dec. 15 Alcoholics Anonymous, 1 p.m., closed meeting, Salem Lutheran Church, I...