Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
WORKING ON Tuesday to lift pieces of a massive tree at Marenisco Township Cemetery is Marvin Ceplina. Watching, from left, are Dave Bledsoe and Missy Alexandroni. Stan Cole Jr. is hidden in the brush, using a chain saw to help facilitate removal of the tree that fell during a late Monday evening storm.
By P.J. GLISSON
MARENISCO - Clean-up continues in Marenisco after Monday night weather events took the town literally by storm.
Marenisco Township Supervisor Bruce Mahler said in a Wednesday morning phone call that the thunderstorm had not been classified as a tornado, but rather as "the beginnings" of one.
That's the word from the National Weather Service in Marquette, whose representatives concluded that straight-line winds had moved through the "downtown" area of the unincorporated community, while microbursts had occurred on land south of there.
The NWS defines a st...
