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Bessemer board accepts superintendent's resignation

By P.J. GLISSON

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BESSEMER - After two separate closed sessions during a special meeting on Tuesday evening, the Bessemer Area Board of Education voted to accept the resignation of Dave Wineburner, who had been hired for the position in the summer of 2018.

All board members were present for the unanimous vote, which followed a motion by Board Secretary Beth Steiger, who also chairs the board's personnel committee.

Wineburner was not present. Nor was Alan Tulppo, the superintendent of the Gogebic-Ontonagon Intermediate School District.

Tulppo has been serving as Bessemer's...