The Globe - Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

IRONWOOD — With their children planning to start classes next week, concerned parents attended the regular Ironwood board of education meeting at Luther L. Wright High School on Monday in large numbers.

During the start of the meeting, when citizens are permitted to address the board about items on the agenda, some parents expressed their fears about sending their children back to school without masks being required for all students. Others threatened to withdraw their students if the school required masks.

Travis Powell, the school superintendent, said he met with the Western U.P. Healt...