By P.J. GLISSON

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BESSEMER — A 5-year recreation plan for 2023-2027 was adopted last week by the Gogebic County Board of Commissioners, but members already anticipate addressing several new ideas proposed during a public hearing just prior to the vote.

The Jan. 25 motion, specifically, recommended adopting the plan and sending it back to the county’s Forestry and Parks Commission with an acknowledgment of a potential need to rule on later updates, based on additional suggestions made by members of the public.

Those suggestions included expanding equine opportunit...