Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Iron trail effort gets Health Foundation grant

By RICHARD JENKINS

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HURLEY — The effort to expand the local non-motorized trail system into Iron County got a boost, as the Iron County Regional Trail Committee learned Thursday the Gogebic Range Health Foundation had awarded a grant.

The $11,000 matching grant will go to the purchase of a two-block strip of land that runs parallel to Silver Street, between U.S. 51 and the Montreal River. The land is intended to bring the local section of the Iron Belle Trail — which will ultimately run between Belle Isle in Detroit and Ironwood, but locally is only built from...