M-DOT Nixes
Traffic Light
 
Ironwood Township August 11, 2008

At today's regular meeting of the Township  Board of Trustees it was learned that the Michigan  Department of Transportation has rejected the wishes of the area's taxpayers and will not install a traffic light at country club road and U.S. Hwy 2. The decision was e-mailed by Mike Premo (MDOT) to Rick Estola the Township Supervisor.

Local citizens should have been ready for the state's fluff off, after all  the Houghton Walmart is also without a traffic control signal. Wisconsin has installed traffic lights at both the Ashland  and Rhinelander Walmart stores.  It appears that the Wisconsin Department of Transportation places a higher value on human life then their Michigan counterparts . MDOT requires a pile of dead bodies before they spend a dime on a traffic control device. It was also MDOT that provided the questionable accident statistics used for supporting the lane reductions in Bessemer.
 

Congratulations

Kim, Gayla, Jyl and Bernie
Good deeds generate good rewards
IronwoodInfo.com
 

TOWNSHIP GETS "A" ON AUDIT
Ironwood Township
The Ironwood Township Board of Trustees held their regular board meeting Monday. There was a larger than normal turn out for the meeting. The agenda included resolutions for the new water supply and distribution program and it also included the review of the current year end audit. Read More
 

2008
White Pine
Mine Reunion
 
Former White Pine Mine employees gathered at the American Legion Post this past Saturday
This is an annual event that brings the former employees together for a day fun and reminiscing. The announcement said from  noon until ? .  Need we say more?
Betty, Mary Claire and Judy welcome and register guests outside the hall. 50/50 anyone?

Old friends gather early and talk over old times.

Old friends, Brats and Beer on a beautiful sunny summer afternoon what could be better?

Oh yes, once the keg was opened, all weapons were put on safety!

Inside the Legion Hall, guitarist,  Ron Howard provides the entertainment.
 

In Our Opinion - An IronwoodInfo Editorial

Not So Friendly Friend$
Refer Children to
Collection Agency

Not so friendly friend$ of Library want to evict
Ice Crystals from Civic Center
Photos above left, Erickson refers kids to collection agencies. right Rayner Board Chairman oversees librarian.

Photo bottom left councilman Lamb. Votes to keep Civic Center off ballot.

Bottom Right, Noren contemplates the number of votes he'll lose next election
Noren then votes no twice Well Bruce, Where do you supose the kids will play hockey and figure skate? We know why you picked this time to evict the kids!
 
Sometimes you have to scratch your head and wonder, what is it that those not so friendly friend$ of the library have against kids? First, Gemma Lamb and Bruce Noren used their position on the city council to vote no to the renewal millage for the civic center. In fact, Noren voted no twice to evict the Ice Crystals and the Polar Bears from their home ice at the center. Their mean spirited votes might have worked hadn't it been for councilman Tom Laabs and councilwoman Suzanne Toth. Just where does Gemma Lamb, Noren and Burchell think these kids are going to play hockey or the little girls figure skate? Maybe, just maybe, their planning on flooding the basement at the library and opening up the windows. Hey, they can even ask for an ice making machine the next time they try to con the taxpayers into voting for the absurd library renovation.

If it isn't very clear to you by now, the not so friendly friends$ would like to see the civic center millage renewal fail. They want to have that millage disappear so that they can try to force the foolish library renovation boondoggle down taxpayers throats next year. Kids be damn!

It has now come to our attention that those same unfriendly friend$ are sending little kids to collection agencies. That's right. At the same time the not so friendly friend$ were funneling grant money to their not so friendly friend$, they were sending everyone else's kids to collection agencies. You have to scratch your head (again), how can the librarian, a trained lawyer, send minors to collection agencies? Mrs. Erickson (wife of city manager Scott Erickson) knows better. So why did she do it? Mrs. Rayner, chairman of the library board, told me specifically that Erickson has to have board approval on such things. So our question to the not so friendly friend$ who control the library board is "why did you approve these illegal actions?" Here's another question "are these little kids starting life off with a bad credit score?"

Ironwoodinfo contacted every single library from Ashland to Trout Creek. We asked each librarian "do you send children to collection agencies?" They always answered  "no" or "of course not". The inflection in their voices was clearly disbelief that some library or librarian would do such a thing.

Do you remember last year's Big Read? When I hear the term Big Read I automatically think of books. Surely, Big Read + Library has to be about books. When I hear that $10,000 plus is being spent by the library on the Big Read, my mind envisions stacks and stacks of books. Well, my mind must be wrong because the Ironwood library spent over $10,000 on the "Big Read" and they only bought 390 books (Grapes of Wrath at that) $ 3,096. The rest went for Public Relations, funneled through members of the "not so friendly friend$. Yes these spendthrifts are the same self indulging purveyors of waste that want to take legal action against children for $12. indebtedness.

No wonder they want to con the Township taxpayers into paying $40 for a $20 book.

Surely, Andrew Carnegie is rolling over in his grave.

 
 

Changes in
Duck Season Expected
Michigan duck hunters can look forward to a 60-day season this year. That's the likely outcome once the 2008 waterfowl regulations get the final nod next week from the state's Natural Resources Commission.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved the 60-day season and six duck bag limit late last week. That framed recommendations developed last weekend by the state's Citizens Waterfowl Advisory Committee, which were endorsed by the DNR.

The recommendations call for some expected and some surprising changes.

"One of the big surprise for the department was the Oct. 4 opener for the Upper Peninsula," said Barb Avers, the DNR's waterfowl specialist. "We had not anticipated they would want a later UP opener.

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