A new contract with a paving company will hopefully end the difficulties anyone who drives on Sixth Street West in Ashland is encountering. According to TheAshlandDailyPress, roadwork has taken a year to begin, after a lawsuit filed by the city with the company who did the initial rebuild settled. However, the money the city needed … Read more
A new contract with a paving company will hopefully end the difficulties anyone who drives on Sixth Street West in Ashland is encountering. According to TheAshlandDailyPress, roadwork has taken a year to begin, after a lawsuit filed by the city with the company who did the initial rebuild settled. However, the money the city needed … Read more
An emergency application to block the Michigan Parole Board’s decision to release an offender from the Saginaw Correctional Facility has been filed by the state’s attorney general in the case of 70 year old Paul Gaulthier, of Ontonagon, who is serving a 30 year to life sentence. The timing of the filing to release Gaulthier … Read more
A woman that walked away from her home in Ontonagon with her cat has been located. UpNorthLive reports Michigan State troopers and county Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched late Wednesday evening after it was discovered the 79 year old woman was missing. After an extensive search, the woman, who has dementia, was found safe with her … Read more
Tomorrow,residents are invited to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Memorial Building in Ironwood. TheDailyGlobe says a large group photo is scheduled to be taken in front of the building, recreating the photo taken at the dedication of the building in 1923. The photo is scheduled for 5:35 . Before that, tours of the building … Read more
Work on the new water treatment plan in Ironwood is expected to move forward, now that a bid for phase 1 of the project has been awarded. TheDailyGlobe reports the bid for just over $9.5 million has been given to C.D. Smith Construction during a special meeting of the city commission at the end of … Read more
Vilas County supervisors agreed at their last meeting to put the topic of EMS services on the agenda for their August meeting. TheLakelandTimes reports there are many towns in the county trying to assemble Emergency Services, including doing research on what other counties are currently doing. The biggest challenge to developing a county wide EMS … Read more
Three resolutions that would be funded by ARPA moneys have passed a vote by the Vilas County board. TheLakelandTimes reports the three projects totaling just over 1.3 million dollars include, tablets for squad cars in the Vilas County Sheriff’s Department fleet, purchase and installation of a bypass valve as part of a water heater and … Read more
Now that the Cable School building off Kavanaugh Road has been demolished, the town has to decide what it’s going to do with the lot. TheAshlandDailyPress says the town in Bayfield County used a $150,000 grant to redevelop the site, part of which was used to demolish the old school building. More than 90 people … Read more
There are still two seats on Governor Whitmer’s Growing Michigan Together Council and so far, she hasn’t appointed any representatives from the U.P. 6News says the announcement came at the beginning of June and Invest U.P. CEO Marty Fittante he’s disappointed. “It’s one thing to be left off the map of a marketing campaign, but … Read more