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Fairground buildings await demolition

By P.J. GLISSON

news@yourdailyglobe.com

BESSEMER — Gogebic County officials are striving to move forward with progress at the Gogebic County Fairgrounds, and some measure of it arrived on Tuesday with a delivery of demolition equipment and demolition was under way Wednesday morning.

County Administrator Juliane Giackino told Gogebic County commissioners last week that a representative of the company that was hired to conduct the demolition met with several county officials on Sept. 12.

“I took him to the fairgrounds,” she said. “He toured the buildings.”

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