By RICHARD JENKINS

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IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP - With fall here on the Gogebic Range, the first year of the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District's agriculture program wrapped up recently.

Two Bessemer students spent much of the summer working on Taiga Farm in Ironwood Township, participating in a "totally unique learning opportunity for students," according to Abbey Palmer.

Palmer, the education coordinator at the Michigan State University Upper Peninsula Research and Extension Center in Chatham, was one of those involved in developing the GOISD's program and oth...