Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By RICHARD JENKINS
WAKEFIELD — Residents looking to travel east from Wakefield will have to continue taking the detour around Lake Gogebic if they want to use M-28, as the Jackson Creek bridge project isn’t expected to be finished this month.
“While we can’t give a definite date for reopening to traffic, we are confident the project will be completed this construction season,” said Dan Weingarten, a Michigan Department of Transportation spokesman. “We will let the public know as soon as a solid timeline is established.”
The bridge deck has been pour...