Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By RALPH ANSAMI [email protected] IRONWOOD - Greg Klecker, who has been on the job for about three weeks as Ironwood Public Safety Department director, stresses the importance of analyzing statistics in his new leadership role. With that in mind, he proudly points out that in the past five years as senior commander with the Buena Vista Public Safety Department in Saginaw, a study showed violent crime decreased by 19 percent. Klecker was sworn in by city clerk Karen Gullan at Monday's...
By IAN MINIELLY [email protected] IRONWOOD - Gogebic Community College Ski Area Management students have spent the last month preparing Mt. Zion for this weekend's Fire on the Hill Snocross races. Two weeks ago, the race was postponed because of unusually warm weather and a lack of natural snow, which confounded snowmaking and track construction. Jim Vanderspoel, director of ski area management, said Thursday the track is bigger, wider and faster this year because temperatures...
By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] While TubaChristmas has been an annual event around the country since 1974, local musicians are gathering this weekend to bring the performance to the Gogebic Range for the first time. Featuring tuba, sousaphone, euphonium and baritone players of any ages, local concerts will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at St. Mary’s Church in Hurley and 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Sebastian’s Church in Bessemer. The group is continuing to accept members up until Sunday morning, according to former Ironwood band dir...
Friday, Dec. 15 Mercer Cribbage, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Mercer Senior Center. Gogebic Conservation District, 10 a.m., Natural Resources Center, Bessemer. 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. Ironwood Carnegie Library board of trustees meeting, 4 p.m., library. Olde Time Community Christmas, 6 p.m., at the warming shelter at Pipke Park, located off County W...
KEWASKUM, Wis. - William Keith Selin, known to most as "Billy" or "Big Bill," born on Sept. 6, 1946, in Bessemer, Mich., passed away peacefully, in his home on his favorite barstool, with his beloved, cherished wife, Joan Selin, at his side, on Monday, Dec. 11, in Kewaskum. A veteran of the Vietnam War, Billy spent some of the early years of his life of love and happiness with Joan, jumping out of airplanes, keeping his head low, and being committed to getting back to make one final jump into...
