Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
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By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD - To help students from Luther L. Wright K-12 enjoy the warmer weather and learn about the western Upper Peninsula's history of mining communities, Downtown Art Place volunteers collaborated with Ironwood Area Schools staff and the Ironwood Carnegie Library for an outdoor art project during school hours Wednesday afternoon. Daniel Negro, Judy Balchik and Rebecca Sim's fourth grade classes used a somewhat uncommon medium for this project:...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] WAKEFIELD - A large crowd filed into the Wakefield-Marenisco gymnasium twice on Tuesday to hear students in the school's music program perform in their spring concert. The elementary students performed in the afternoon and the junior and senior high school band students performed in the evening. The afternoon concert featured K-5 students singing songs such as "My Country Tis of Thee," "Follow My Rhythms", "Banana Smoothie" and "Thunder." Then, the...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] IRONWOOD - Luther L. Wright middle and high school vocal students offered their annual spring concert at the Historic Ironwood Theatre on Saturday night. The concert theme's was "world unity and brotherhood," which vocal music director Darin Schmidt said felt appropriate for a community and society just coming out of a global pandemic. The concert began with the middle school choir Ayer Street Voices. The students performed a variety of songs including...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] BESSEMER - Several people came to the Bessemer Downtown Development Authority meeting on Wednesday evening to hear a discussion about the possibility of purchasing colored, stamped concrete to be laid down along U.S. 2 as part of the ongoing highway reconstruction project. The idea was to fill the space between the curb and sidewalk with the concrete instead of grass from Mill Street to Peck Street, and the DDA was going to pay for it. However, the...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] The Gogebic Range Trail Authority will perform a spring cleaning on Saturday of the snowmobile and ATV trails going from Marenisco west to the Montreal River and the border with Wisconsin, trail authority president Steve Hamilton said. GRTA members will use chainsaws to break down and remove fallen trees that are blocking the way, pick up trash and brush the trails, Hamilton said. State of Michigan ATV trails officially opened on April 1 and multi-use trails are open all year, but Hamilton told the D...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] WAKEFIELD - After months of anticipation, planning and fundraising to build a skate park on the Eddy Park tennis courts by middle school students at the Wakefield-Marenisco School, a monkey wrench has now been thrown in, which may alter their plans within weeks of opening. Area pickleball players Lorraine Mussatti and Julie Hautala made a request to the Wakefield city council on Monday for permission to create two pickleball courts on the same tennis...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HURLEY — As warmer temperatures melt the last of the snow, Street Commissioner Scott Santini and Water Manager Gary Lugana provided the Hurley City Council with a public works update at its regular meeting on Tuesday. Santini informed the council that there was a “serious undermining” of a drain on Fifth Avenue in Hurley and he went out for bids to replace the drain. The council approved a $8,500 contract with Ross Peterson Construction for the replacement. Santini said that Cary Park is open as of...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] IRONWOOD - Twenty-eight nurse graduates celebrated National Nurses Day on Friday by receiving pins and their degrees from Gogebic Community College. The college's Associate Degree in nursing program's pinning ceremony took place prior to graduation in a classroom on campus. The event marks the student's successful completion of educational nurse training and transition into the nursing profession. During the ceremony, GCC president George McNulty and...
By LARRY HOLCOMBE [email protected] High winds caused power outages across the region on Monday that continued into Tuesday. Xcel Energy reported 1,200 customers in the Gogebic County and northern Iron County were without power Monday evening as crews were worked to restore power, according to spokesperson Chris Ouellette. "There were a lot of trees down on power lines," she said. She said some 800 customers were still without power Tuesday morning as new crews were brought in to...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] WAKEFIELD - Ten eighth grade students from the Wakefield Marenisco School District got up early on Mother's Day morning to wait tables at the Wakefield VFW Post 9084, in an effort to raise funds for a skate park to be built on the Eddy Park tennis courts. The students came up with the idea during a social studies class last fall and presented it to the city planning commission. After some discussion, the commission and the city council approved their id...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HURLEY - In Wisconsin, the Iron County Highway Department is hoping to pave some roads in the gap between the winter seasons. Department head Mike Swartz said they have two levels of projects: they maintain county highways by themselves and collaborate with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation on state highways. On the state level, Swartz said they are repaving part of U.S. 51 with a mill and overlay from Iron Street in Hurley to County Road C...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] As the sun and warmer temperatures melt the sheets of ice covering the inland lakes in northern Wisconsin, many outdoor recreation enthusiasts are starting to take their boats and kayaks out on the water for the first time since the 2021-2022 winter season. The general inland fishing season begins in Wisconsin on Saturday. According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Fisheries Management's hook and line fishing guide, the...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD - The Ironwood Parks and Recreation Committee met with members of the Gogebic Conservation District on Monday to learn more about the conservation district's services and to request its assistance in developing a forest management plan for the city. Director of Community Development Tom Bergman said that while working with U.S. Forest Service botanist Ian Shackleford about volunteer-coordinated invasive species removal at the Mt. Zion Ski...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD - The author of the 2021-2022 Great Michigan Read "The Women of the Copper Country," Mary Doria Russell, was invited to Cold Iron Brewing by the Ironwood Carnegie Library for a "meet the author" session on Thursday. Russell said that the idea for her historical fiction novel "came literally out of left field" as she was sitting in her living room waiting for a baseball game to start one afternoon. She then stumbled upon a PBS documentary...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD - For National Arbor Day, Doug Foley - a former teacher at Ironwood Area Schools and co-owner of 906 Tree Service LLC - returned to Luther L. Wright on Friday morning to teach fourth grade students about the importance of trees. The fourth-grade classes of teachers Daniel Negro, Judy Balchik and Rebecca Sim gathered in the school's makerspace room on the second floor to hear Foley's presentation. Foley introduced himself to the classes as an...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — City Manager Scott Erickson made plans for his final six weeks as city manager with the Ironwood City Commission Monday evening. He will end his 17-year run on June 6 but will stay on board as city engineer until a new manager is appointed. “I’ve stepped out of the city manager role to allow that position to be filled,” Erickson told the Daily Globe. “I’ll still stay in the city engineering role for a period of time and that would ultimately be to the point that they appoint a city manage...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Area Schools Board of Education approved a preliminary list of Luther L. Wright students slated to graduate this year based on their current grades at its regular meeting on Monday. Board Secretary Carolyn Mieloszyk told the Daily Globe that these students are on track to graduate provided their good performance continues. The board also approved the May 2022 alternative education graduates as well as the graduation exception requests. According to the events calendar on t...
By CHARITY SMITH [email protected] IRONWOOD - Tuition for students at Gogebic Community College will be going up this fall. The board of trustees approved a rate increase for the 2022-2023 school year during its regular meeting on Tuesday night. Students residing in Gogebic County will see an increase from $130 per credit hour to a rate of $134 per credit hour. Out of district and Wisconsin reciprocity area students will have an increase of $6 per credit hour to $191 and those students...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] IRONWOOD — Ironwood City Manager Scott Erickson is stepping down from his position effective June 6. The city commission met in closed session at the end of Monday’s regular meeting. After the closed session, the commission adopted a retirement succession plan. The commission authorized Mayor Kim Corcoran to enter into a contract with the Michigan Municipal League to conduct an executive search for a new city manager at a cost not to exceed $15,000. Andrew DiGiorgio, director of the Ironwood Public S...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] As of late April, most of the snow appears to have melted in the western Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin, barring some small patches here and there. Of course, the snowmelt has to go somewhere and bodies of water such as the Black River in Gogebic County are at high tide. However, there has been no major flooding on the roads so far, according to Heidi DeRosso, emergency management/911 coordinator in Gogebic County, and Stacy Ofstad, director o... Full story
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HURLEY - The city of Hurley's first female mayor, Joanne Bruneau, was sworn in at the full council meeting on Tuesday. New alderpersons Joseph Pinardi and Rita Franzoi, who ran unopposed for open seats on the council left vacant by departing mayor Jay "Budgey" Aijala and Steven Lombardo, also took their oaths of office at the meeting. After doing this, the council held a restructuring meeting where they designated their official depositories as...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] MONTREAL, Wis. - A new councilmember was sworn in at the Montreal Common Council meeting on Tuesday. Following the meeting, Steve Fiene is now one of two council members for Ward 1 along with Maleah Cummings. "It's a big seat to fill but I'll be able to do it, to the best of my ability," Fiene said about his appointment. Fiene is filling a position left vacant by Ken Saari, who did not run in the Iron County 2022 general election. Incumbent Mayor...
By ZACHARY MARANO [email protected] HURLEY — The Iron County Board of Supervisors held a restructuring meeting at the Iron County Courthouse in the wake of the April 5 elections on Tuesday. The composition of the board remained largely unchanged from their previous meeting in March, as the only contested position with two or more named candidates on the ballot was Iron County supervisor for district 12 and that race was ultimately won by incumbent candidate Opal Roberts. The position of county supervisor for district 6 was on the b...
