Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By TOM STANKARD [email protected] HURLEY - In the spirit of the holidays, Hurley K-12 Spanish classes hosted the annual La Festival de Navidad on Monday. Throughout the day, elementary school children exited the classrooms to eat Latin American cuisine, make crafts and play games in the gymnasium. This year, Spanish teacher Natalie Patritto said there were more booths than ever. In keeping with the theme, high school students made food or hosted an activity representing a country of...
By KELSEY HANSEN [email protected] WAKEFIELD — The Wakefield-Marenisco School District will stay independent after the district’s school board voted against joining with the Bessemer Area School District Monday. “One thing I’d like to discuss before the board votes is that when this all started — up until this point — this board has never taken a stand of a no or a yes,” board President Brad Dalbec said. “This will be the first time that the board officially comes out with a stand and I think it’s time.” The vote came after the board was...
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By TOM STANKARD [email protected] BESSEMER — After coming out of closed session, the Bessemer City Council voted Monday to seek “a second legal opinion” about the Bessemer city manager position and request the city attorney to contact past City Manager Michael Uskiewicz to collect more information regarding the issue. At a Dec. 7 meeting, the council voted to buy-out Uskiewicz’s contract and appointed former Wakefield City Manager Margot Anderson as his replacement, pending Anderson’s approval. At that time, the council also agre...
Tuesday, Dec. 22 Hurley School Concert, 8:30 a.m., Tuesday/Thursday Pre-K, second and third grade. Gogebic County Veterans Service Officer, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Memorial Building. 906-667-1110. Hurley School Concert, 10 a.m., grades 4-6. Breakfast For Your Brain, 10 a.m., Mercer (Wis.) Community Center. 715-561-2695. Alcoholics Anonymous, noon, Salem Lutheran Church, Ironwood. area74.org. Children’s Holiday Party, 1 p.m., Ironwood Carnegie Library, 906-932-0203. Woods and Blooms Garden Club, 6:30 p.m., Haines Civic Center, Merce...
MADISON, Wis. — Joyce Marie Davis, 43, of Watersmeet, Mich., passed away peacefully in Madison on Dec. 18, 2015. She was born July 23, 1972, in Ontonagon, Mich., to Mike and Phyllis (Cottenham) Davis. Joyce graduated from Ewen-Trout Creek High School in 1990, and received an Associate’s Degree from Delta State University in 1995. She was employed at the Lac Vieux Desert Health Center as a medical coding and billing specialist. Joyce was very community-oriented and was often the first to volunteer her time. She served on the Watersmeet Boa...
AUSTIN, Texas — Einar W. Polso, 90, died peacefully on Nov. 26, 2015, at his home in Austin. He was born in Ironwood, Mich., and graduated from Luther L. Wright High School in Ironwood. He married Elsie Nurmi from Kimball, Wis. She preceded him in death on April 22, 2015. They were married 68 years, living in Kimball, Kenosha, Wis., Arlington and Austin. He is survived by two children, Douglas (Carol) Polso, of Kenosha, and Doreen (Craig) Gossen, of Austin; seven grandchildren; one great granddaughter; and nieces and nephews. A small m...
