Sunny skies High: 71 | Low: 47 | Details, page 2 DAILY GLOBE yourdailyglobe.com Wednesday, July 16, 2014 75 cents Hurley winter damages estimated at $156,741 By RALPH ANSAMI reimbursement of watermain and ser- Jeff Seamandel, of MSA, said the fed- the water department, partly because of The council agreed it will seek private [email protected] vice repair costs, the city council learned eral government’s emergency water the line breaks. contractors next year to cut grass that HURLEY — The city of Hurley will Tuesday. funds for this fiscal year have been The public safety and public works has reached eight inches on parcels. seek $150,000 in federal reimbursement The city’s costs for water line repairs exhausted. The new fiscal year begins in departments went over budget for 2013. Mayor Joe Pinardi said the city has for added costs resulting from the totaled $156,741, including water losses October, so the city may have to wait In other business, the council been cutting the long grass on private extreme cold winter temperatures. associated with the broken pipes. until 2015 before receiving a final deci- repealed a driveway permit it had lots and billing the property owners MSA Professional Services, the city’s Four watermains broke in Hurley sion on funding, he added. approved on Fourth Avenue for a home- $100 apiece, but it’s not worth it when engineering firm, recently submitted an during the coldest winter in 110 years On Tuesday, the city received a owner because a neighbor strongly application to the U.S. Department of on the Gogebic Range. The frost drove “clean” 2013 audit report from Wipfli opposed it. The area in question will be Agriculture-Rural Development for more than 8 feet deep. LLC, but it noted there was a deficit in returned to its original state. HURLEY — page 5 Bessemer K O S K I R O A D Township set to improve gravel roads By RYAN JARVI [email protected] BESSEMER TOWNSHIP — The Bessemer Township Board recently approved a construction project to improve four of its gravel roads at a cost of nearly $85,000. The four roads to undergo con- struction are Chokecherry and Bluebird lanes, a small piece of Sec- ond Street and portions of Anvil and Koski roads. The portions of Anvil and Koski roads, slated for paving, will be the most expensive at slightly more than $46,000. The work on the remaining routes will involve putting down two layers of chip seal, which is something like a mixture of tar and gravel, said Bessemer Township Supervisor Jeff Randall. “That double chip seal goes on roads that don’t have a whole lot of heavy traffic on it,” Randall said. “It helps keep the shape of the road, keeps potholes from forming and is very good dust control; and it can be paved over, so it’s a nice alterna- tive.” The Gogebic County Road Com- mission typically has its own Ryan Jarvi/Daily Globe THIS GRAVEL portion of Koski Road, along with a gravel piece of Anvil Road, both in Bessemer Township, will be paved as part of an $85,000 road construction project expected to be completed this month. The project was approved by the township board last month. BESSEMER — page 5 Mykkanen to perform at ONTONAGON Multiple new partnership grants Historic Ironwood Theatre available through MDNR By CORTNEY OFSTAD broadcasted mentary about American [email protected] master class. singers. By JAN TUCKER County has received $438,300 in grants, with the IRONWOOD — It’s been a In addition, “It’s been a whirlwind year,” [email protected] U.P. receiving a total of $29,988,866. “whirlwind” year for Bessemer Mykkanen also Mykkanen said. “It’s thrilling ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon County Haughey said the area was fortunate to have native Miles Mykkanen. sang lead in and I am completely blessed to Board heard about several new partnership Ontonagon native J.R. Richardson as chairman of While working towards his J u i l l i a r d have so many opportunities. I hit grants being available to Michigan counties the Natural Resources Commission, and added he master’s degree in music with an opera’s critical- a new stride this year.” through the Michigan Department of Natural is the first chairman to come from the Upper emphasis in vocal performance ly acclaimed Despite his busy schedule, Resources, during a meeting Tuesday. Peninsula. at The Juilliard School, Mykka- production of Mykkanen will be performing at Stacy Welling Haughey, DNR Upper Peninsu- nen has made his solo perfor- Tchaikovsky’s the Historic Ironwood Theatre on la regional coordinator, told the board about the mance debuts at the Kennedy “Eugene One- Sunday in the annual Pine grants, and said many of them are deer habitat CourtAt recordingthe request of Judge Janis Burgess, the Center and Carnegie Hall in Miles gin,” and this Mountain Music Festival. improvement partnership initiative, aquatic board agreed to send circuit court clerk Janice New York. He also worked with Mykkanen winter will habitat and wildlife habitat grants. famed American soprano Renée appear in a The board also received information about Fleming in an internationally PBS “Great Performances” docu- grants already approved. Since 1976, Ontonagon MYKKANEN — page 5 GRANT — page 5 Commission approves special street millage wording shot at a special 10-year tax mil- taxes for residents. But commissioner Dave Sim ing a flat $2 million for street pans. n Millage is special lage for street repairs. “I have no problem asking tax- has opposed seeking the special repairs, but decided to go with the The commission also agreed to 10-year tax for Commissioners had previously payers the question,” said com- millage. He said at a previous same request that was narrowly seek bids for crack sealing of approved placing the street millage missioner Brandon Tauer. meeting that it’s time to give tax- defeated. streets for this year. street repairs question on the November ballot. Mayor Kim Corcoran said the payers a break. City manager Scott Erickson It also authorized a call for bids By RALPH ANSAMI A similar millage request was second millage try was “worth Two mills will be sought from said of the 66 miles of roadway in for street paving of some streets. [email protected] narrowly defeated by city voters. pursuing,” as poor roads were taxpayers over a 10-year period, the city, about 14 miles is in bad Erickson mentioned East Ayer, IRONWOOD — The Ironwood With the special Memorial often cited as concerns by city res- spanning from 2015 to 2025. shape and it’s important to main- Southwest, Copper and Mill City Commission Monday Building millage ending, there idents who responded to a com- The commission had consid- tain the streets that have already streets as being high on the approved wording for another would be no increase in special prehensive plan survey. ered an alternate question seek- been repaired, extending the lifes- repaving priority list. 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Expect mostly clear skies tonight with an overnight low of 47º. prime target for terrorists over Ironwood Wakefield 45 Saxon the past two decades, but multi- 71/47 71/46 SUN AND MOON 71/48 Marenisco ple officials vigorously dismissed terrorism as a possible cause. Bessemer 71/43 The Moscow Metro is world- Hurley 71/46 2 Watersmeet Upson famous for its palatial interiors 70/48 69/47 70/40 Sunrise . .5:24 a.m. 51 Sunset . .8:48 p.m. with mosaics, chandeliers and Mercer Moonrise . .11:11 p.m. marble benches. Park Pobedy, 69/46 Moonset . .10:50 a.m. where the derailment occurred, Manitowish is Moscow’s deepest metro sta- 69/44 NATIONAL WEATHER tion — 84 meters (275 feet) below Minocqua Today Thu. the surface — which made the 72/44 Chicago 70/59 s 75/63 s rescue particularly difficult. The Dallas 90/73 mc 85/71 t station serves the vast park Kansas City 75/59 s 75/62 pc where Russia’s World War II Los Angeles 79/66mc 77/66s museum is located.