Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Students assemble amid national protests

By RICHARD JENKINS

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While students across the country walked out of class Wednesday in a call for action on gun violence and to remember the 17 students killed in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida; Gogebic Range students recognized the effort in various ways.

In Ironwood, interested students from the district's upper grades gathered in the gym to talk with members of the Ironwood Public Safety Department regarding school safety.

"Our main thing was to provide a space for students that had concerns to ask questions, for...