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Recent Stories
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2009 Hank Thompson Kiddie Parade |
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Ontonagon - September 11, 2009 Monday was another beautiful day and this one was all about the children. The 21st annual Hank Thompson Kiddie Parade took place down main street of Ontonagon Monday afternoon. he parade began at Syl's Restaurant and concluded at the Fire Hall, where prizes and games awaited the young marchers. There were prizes for kid's walking, biking and pulling....first to sixth place. |
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Kruisers Hold Season Finale |
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| Hurley - September 3, 2009 The Klassic Kruisers Car Club held their 2009 Grand Finale Cruise Night Wednesday. The "End of the Season Show" took place at the Range Beverage Company on 5th Avenue in Hurley. The show was also the last opportunity for the public to participate in the Kruisers "Kruisin’ for Kans” food drive. The proceeds of the fundraisers are to go to St. Vinny's Food Pantry. Those who donated to the food drive were eligible for a drawing, where restaurant gift certificates would go to the winners of the drawing. |
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Week 2: Gladiators Down Vikings 22-14 |
| Story and photos by Linda Graham Ontonagon - September 4, 2009 The members of the Ontonagon Football team,
including the cheerleader squad, were at Pamida
Friday afternoon to meet and greet their fans. The
fans were treated to free pop and pizza. |
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Music in the Porkies |
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| Porcupine Mountain State Park - August 31, 2009 The 2009 Porcupine Mountain Musical Festival concluded Sunday. The event which continues to grow each year began on a "soggy note" Friday when the musical performances had to be moved indoors as the weather worsened. The cold and wet weather continued throughout Saturday and again the performances were contained within the Chalet. |
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2009 Houghton County Fair |
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| Houghton - September 1, 2009 The Houghton Fair took place this past weekend. It got off to a rainy start, however, the wet and cool weather failed to dampen the enthusiasm of fair goers. The Midway rides hampered slightly early on but, the midway rides remained open most of the time. Since a great deal of the fair takes place inside the fair buildings, livestock, horticultural exhibits and shows were totally unaffected by the weather. |
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| Even in less than ideal weather the Ferris Wheel still remains a crowd favorite |
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| Animal exhibits are in important part of a fair. They are the difference between a carnival and a fair! |
| Read Coverage of the fair... |
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Thursday Night at the Drive-In |
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| Ironwood - August 30, 2009 It was Thursday night at the drive for all those who came out to support the Klassic Kruisers fundraiser. Last Thursday evening a drive movie was presented by the Klassic Kruisers at Sunnyside Plaza. A Klassic Komedy "The Long Long Trailer was shown on a screen in the rear of Northwestern Electronics, who provide the space and facilities for this terrific event. The Lucy and Desi movie was a natural for this showing. |
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| View Kruisers Summer Car Show | View Kruisers 50's Night at Longyear Park |
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Goldenaires at Bluff Valley Park |
| Bessemer - August 28, 2009 Marty's Goldenaires hosted its Annual Fundraising Picnic Sunday. The picnic was held in Bessemer's Bluff Valley Park. The members of Marty's Goldenaires cooked and served food, manned gaming booths and everything else that was necessary to make this event a very large success. |
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"All Good Things Must Come to an End" |
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| Ironwood - August 28, 2009 This past Tuesday the Gogebic Range Concert Band played it's final concert of the summer band series. It's been a rewarding experience listening to this band and its talented band members. Watching and listening to the band in Longyear Park is like reliving Rockwell's version of Americana. Where else can you bring a lawn chair to the park and enjoy such much entertainment. Longyear is the perfect venue for the GRCB and the GRCB is the perfect entertainment for Longyear. |
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Carnegie
Library holds Art Workshop |
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| Ironwood - August 27, 2009 The Staff and volunteers of the Carnegie held another art workshop this afternoon. The workshop SMAUG! was the creation of local artist Amanda Szot. Amanda's workshop was centered on Plastic Sculpture, using discarded plastic items. A great way to keep these items out of the landfill. . The creations were based on the the Lord of the Rings. |
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Range Master
Gardeners |
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| Hurley - August 27, 2009 The Range Master
Gardeners presented the Hurley Public Library
with a gift of six new gardening books:
"Vegetable Gardening in the Midwest", the
Reader's Digest book "Container Gardening",
"Insect, Disease & Weed I.D. Guide", "Garden
Insects of North America" and "Sow and Grow" a
gardening book for children. |
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Kimball Park "A Special Place" |
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| The residents of Kimball held their annual
town picnic this past Sunday. Residents, family
and friends gathered in Kimball's beautiful town
park. The park is bounded by the West Branch of the Montreal River. Crossing over the river via the small bridge, you immediately become aware of the park's special beauty. The park was created on land donated by John and Mary Sola. The Solas donated the land to the town in 1955, so that the public could enjoy the beautiful Kimball Falls. The park would host events such as weddings, meetings and as it would this day, picnics. Read More... |
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Wastewater Authority Acts on Needs Assessments |
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| Ironwood - 0August 27, 2009
The Wastewater Authority concluded work on
establishing a "Health Care Savings Plan" for its
Union Employees. The Plan willl be funded 100% by
the employees themselves. The plan permits
employees to contribute into an investment fund
with pre-tax income. The health care coverage
becomes effective when an employee retires or
ceases to be employed by the "Authority" When that
occurs the moneytaken out for health care benefits
are also tax free. |
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| Also at todays meeting was Raman
Gopalan (above right) and Richard Vendlinsk (above
left) of Shift Engineering. They are preparing
Facility Master Plan and "Needs Assessment Survey
for the Wastewater facility. Shift will be
bringing in needs specialist and contractors from
all over the Region for the project. With respects to the bids and proposal portion of the project, Scott Erickson suggested that the bid itself be presented in a separate envelope from that of the proposal. The idea being that the proposal would first be evaluated on its own merits, without being influenced by the cost factor. Then the pricing would be reviewed and the entire package evaluated. An Excellent Idea, Scott has been using this methodology for 3 years in the city. |
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