Call (906) 932-4449 Ironwood, MI Living 50+ Marenisco police chief relishes Redsautosales.com rural law enforcement INSIDE TODAY DAILY GLOBE Thursday, April 4, 2019 Partly cloudy yourdailyglobe.com | High: 43 | Low: 31 | Details, page 2 Township man P A T C H W O R K gets prison on Workers drug charges address By RICHARD JENKINS addiction qualities. [email protected] Salmi’s charges stem numerous BESSEMER – An Iron- from a pair of cases. wood Township man who He was arrested in used the postal service to March 2018 after authori- repairs after receive drugs was sen- ties found a suspicious tenced to eight years in package containing drugs prison in Gogebic County addressed to the Bessemer Circuit Court Tuesday. restaurant Salmi worked rough winter Scott David Salmi, 45, at. Officers seized approxi- By P.J. GLISSON was sentenced to between mately two ounces of crys- [email protected] eight and 30 years for tal meth. MARENISCO – It’s that time delivery of metham- He was charged a sec- of year when road workers are phetamine and between ond time in August after out shoveling asphalt into pot- three and 10 years for pos- being released on bond. In holes and hoping rain doesn’t session of meth. The two that case, Salmi was arrest- ruin the short-term fix. sentences will be served ed following a short foot “It never ends,” said Jim concurrently, as stipulated pursuit once officers Manchester, who was working in Salmi’s plea agreement receiving information Tuesday with Bill Chiapuzio on a in the case. regarding his location after stretch of U.S. 2 between Wake- “We’re not just talking his bond was revoked. At field and Marenisco. about small amounts of the time of his arrest, he As members of the Gogebic methamphetamine, we’re was found to have con- County Road Commission, the talking about 34-35 grams trolled substances on him, guys said they worked with the per mail delivery to you a Gogebic Iron Area Nar- Michigan Department of Trans- that was then disseminated cotics Team spokesman portation to fill highway holes. and used by you in this said. Chiapuzio said they can go community. That offense is Prosecutor Nick Jacobs through several tons of asphalt very serious,” said Judge called Salmi a “one-man mix on some days. Michael Pope. drug store Tuesday,” and The two men were working in Pope recognized vari- said the case was illuminat- dry conditions, but Chiapuzio ous positive aspects of ing on how easy it was for said they sometimes have to Salmi’s history and mail-order drugs to infil- patch holes even on wet roads acknowledged addiction trate a community. because, if they delay the work, issues were present, but Salmi apologized for his the problem worsens and can called the Salmi’s offenses actions and for what he put result in damage to vehicles. “very egregious” due its his family through. He said Manchester said state officials impact on the community. he didn’t know why he have told them that roads are “(Meth) is one of the relapsed after years of bad everywhere this year. most egregious drugs this sobriety and promised to P.J. Glisson/Daily Globe Dan Weingarten, spokesman court has come across,” he MEMBERS OF the Gogebic County Road Commission fill holes on U.S. 2 for the Michigan Department of said, referencing its severe between Wakefield and Marenisco on Tuesday morning. From left are Bill Transportation, said in a SENTENCE — page 5 Chiapuzio and Jim Manchester, who said the commission has garages in Bessemer, Marenisco and Watersmeet to help them address their respon- sibilities. REPAIRS — page 5 Ironwood receives $50,000 blight grant By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected] IRONWOOD – The city of Iron- wood received a Michigan Rural Community Demolition Grant for $50,000 to address the issue of blight in the city. Scott Erickson, city manager for Ironwood, said the money will be used to clean up the collapsed build- ing on Ayer Street. “We’re moving forward with get- ting things prepared to go out for bids to get contractors involved to do the demolition work,” he said. Bryan Hellios/Daily Globe There is a lot of paperwork DAVID KANTALA, right, an Ironwood Township resi- required by the state which needs to dent, recounts his childhood experiences of growing be done before that can happen, he up in the area to local historian Ivan Hellen for an oral added. history project. The project is a collaboration between Submitted The owner of the building will the Ironwood Carnegie Library and the Ironwood EACH RED dot on the map depicts a house which was razed due to its have the property deeded to the city Area Historical Society. The interviews containing the poor condition. Since 2009, more than 150 homes have been demol- so grant funds can be used to help oral history of area residents will be cataloged and ished in an attempt to control the city’s blight and prevent the cycle of cover the clean-up cost, he said. available at the IAHS. houses in disrepair being resold in tax forfeiture proceedings. Erickson said the city has no immediate plans for the property, to be blighted. house, he said some of the owners Kantala reminisces at but the building is adjacent to other Erickson said homes in need of abandon them, don’t pay the tax property that the city owns. extensive repair get into the cycle of and the cycle continues. oral history session “It expands that property for future tax forfeiture where people buy “We’ve taken out a lot of the real- development potential,” he said. them at a low cost and then don’t ly bad ones over the last few years, it By BRYAN HELLIOS participate in programs Over the last 10 years the city has put any money into them. Once the bhellios@your daily globe.com like this, he said. also removed more than 150 resi- new owners realize how much dential homes which were deemed money it will cost to repair the IRONWOOD – The The oral history project BLIGHT — page 5 Ironwood Carnegie is a joint effort between the Library and Ironwood Area two organizations with the Historical Society kicked purpose of keeping history Markkanen plans Wakefield office hours off their first oral history alive and relevant. session with complemen- “The stories can get WAKEFIELD – State Rep. Greg day at the Wakefield VFW building. “Senator Casperson has done so tary danishes and coffee passed down to peoples Markkanen, R-Houghton, is holding Former state Sen. Tom Casperson many good things for the Upper while local resident David children and great-grand- his first office hours of April in will join Markkanen at the event, Peninsula and he’s an excellent Kantala recorded stories of children,” Kantala said. Gogebic County, meeting with con- which is scheduled to run from resource of knowledge and experi- his life growing up in the Bill Jamerson, head of stituents this weekend. 11:30 to 12:45 p.m. ence for fellow Yoopers.” area. programing at the IAHS, Markkanen – who was elected in “I am honored to be joined by for- Residents can also contact Markka- Memories of people and said saving people’s stories November to represent the 110th dis- mer Senator Casperson to discuss nen’s Lansing office at 517-373-0850 local history can be pre- trict in the state House of Represen- issues impacting the 110th district,” and [email protected]. served if enough citizens tatives – will hold office hours Satur- Markkanen said in news release. —Richard Jenkins HISTORY — page 5 TODAY INDEX Partly cloudy — Details, page 2 Celebrations . .7 75 cents Classifieds . .12-14 Wednesday Today’s records Snowfall Comics . .11 Vol. 100, No. 114 High 38 High 76 (1929) 24 hours to 7 a.m. Community . .3 Low 23 Low -5 (1975) Wednesday 0.2 in. Snow depth 6 in. Obituaries . .6 Year ago today Precipitation Season total 179.2 in. Opinion . .4 High 29 24 hours to 7 a.m. Last year 147.3 in. Low 15 Wednesday 0.05 in. Sports . .9-10 l 2 THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2019 AREA / NATION THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAY FORECASTFOORECAST FOR IRONWOODIRRONWOOD TODAY FRIDAYY SATURDAY SUNDAYSUNDAY MONDAY Rain & Snow Partly Cloudy Few ShowersShoweers Few Showers Few ShowersShhowers Possible 43° 31° 49° 35°355° 52° 45° 56° 36° 45° 29° Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds:Winnds: Winds: 2-92-9 mphmph ESEESE 8 mphmph SWSW 6-96-9 mphmph ESEESE 1010 mphmph SESE 1010 mphmph NWNW Ontonagon LOCALL OUTLOOK 42/32 Todayy we will see partly cloudy Bergland skies with a highg temperaturep of 43°, 45/32 humidhumiditydity of 34%. East southeast Wakefield Ironwood wind 2 to 9 mph. The record high Saxon 43/32 43/31 Marenisco tempetemperatureerature for today is 76° set 43/32 in 1921921.21. 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