Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Blight action prompts bigger look at city

By TOM LAVENTURE

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IRONWOOD — With the Ironwood City Commission’s blight action on a long-time problem residence on Monday, the commissioners called upon all residents to clean up this spring.

Commissioner Kim Corcoran said that with the commission taking action on one residence on Monday she wanted the city to consider something more constructive than punitive. She took the opportunity to drive around the city recently and noticed a number of properties with blight issues, and along Copper, Oak, and Ironwood streets in particular, she said.

“I hope that we can be m...