Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Organizers gear up for Festival Ironwood

By RICHARD JENKINS

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IRONWOOD — Parts of Ironwood’s Depot Park are marked off and the tent will be set up in the coming days as Festival Ironwood is once again here.

The 26th annual festival kicks off Wednesdays, with many of the Depot Park activities running through Saturday.

“It’s going to be a wonderful celebration of summer, everything that’s worked for us in the past we’ve kept, … ” said Festival Ironwood co-chair Keith Johnson told the Daily Globe.

The four-day event will feature many of the crowd favorites; including live music, food, 50-50 raffles, watermelon-...