News Staff A member of the Ashland City Council is retiring and moving away from the area. TheAshlandDailyPress reports Laura Graf will be moving to Milwaukee to be closer to family. Graf served on the council for two years representing District 5. One of Graf’s biggest achievements is helping get affordable housing and a homeless shelter established … Read more
ASHLAND – Governor Tony Evers will soon have the task of appointing an interim District Attorney to Ashland County, as DA David Meany notified the governor that his last day will be October 2nd. Meany also said that assistant DA Ruth Kressel plans to retire at the end of the month. TheAshlandDailyPress reports that Ever’s … Read more
CRYSTAL FALLS, MI – At the Iron County Board of Supervisors meeting earlier in the week, the board read a letter from representatives of county offices proclaiming the summer schedule of city offices a success and asked that the schedule continue through the year, allowing for a 40 hours work week but also allowing employees … Read more
BESSEMER – At a special meeting on the the 23rd, the Bessemer City voted to accept the resignation of city manager and interim clerk/treasurer Jennifer Adams. According to TheDailyGlobe, on the 16th Adams notified the council she wanted to resign as city manager but keep her job as clerk treasurer, but she also asked for … Read more
BAYFIELD – Bayfield has a parking problem and the city has been considering fees for parking for several years now. According to TheAshland DailyPress, the city has cited concerns about paying for street repairs and cars left parked all day taking up spaces that shoppers could readily use. City officials drafted a pay for parking … Read more
ASHLAND – Ashland drivers can expect some delays as work on the rebuild of Sixth Street West gets underway. Ashland city leadership settled a lawsuit against the companies that didn’t get the job right the first time, with residents complaining that driving on it was no better than before the repairs. Those repairs will be … Read more
ASHLAND – An officer involved in a deadly shooting in Ashland County earlier in the month has been identified. Ashland County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Sergeant Jason Janecek fired his weapon during a domestic dispute call in Morse on the 15th, killing Jay Allen Claremboux. When depuies arrived, they found Claremboux assaulting one of two women … Read more
BAYFIELD – Residents of Bayfield County will hopefully see improved internet service. According to the AshlandDailyPress, more than 50 miles of fiber optic line are being installed in the county to help improve broadband service. More than 500 households in Barksdale and Washburn should soon have access to much better service thanks to broadband provider … Read more
A young man who served and died for his country will finally be returned home. Ensign William Finigan was born in Bessemer, and enlisted in the Navy at 20 years old in 1917 in Chicago. He trained as a radio man, aviation radio man, radio technician, radarman and sound man before being promoted to Ensign … Read more
The jobless rate in the U.P. for July was down from last year, 5.3% in June and 5.5% in July. In Iron County, July’s unemployment rate of 5.7% was the same as June’s rate but down from 6% in July 2022, with 272 unemployed. Ontonagon County showed the highest rate at 7.3%, but that was … Read more