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Call (906) 932-4449 18 Lifetime of hunting Ironwood, MI 18 Serving Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner DAYS ‘TIL DNR member speaks Redsautosales.com CHRISTMAS Taking Cookie Orders thru Dec. 18th about hunting stories. 122 Silver St. • Hurley, WI 715-561-5500 OUTDOORS • 8 Since 191 9 DAILY GLOBE Saturday, December 7, 2019 Cloudy yourdailyglobe.com | High: 31 | Low: 23 | Details, page 2 Mercer snowmobile trails open CLEARING SNOW By TOM LAVENTURE merce has a snowline for trail con- [email protected] ditions at 715-476-SNOW. MERCER, Wis. — Around half With 600 members the Sno- of the 255 miles of funded snow- Goers are the second largest mobile trails in the Mercer area snowmobile club in the state, are now open, according to the Ziegler said. The volunteers are nonprofit group that maintains pulling trail groomers on the them. club's four tractors daily, and a Members of the Mercer Area new tractors is scheduled to arrive Sno-Goers Inc., snowmobile club within a week, he said. attended the Iron County Parks Trail 17N is groomed and in and Recreation meeting Thursday great condition, according to the and were present when the com- latest snow report on Thursday. mittee approved opening day Volunteer groomers were out Thursday, said Tom Ziegler, vice improving Trails 12A and 12B, president of the Sno-Goers. Trail 10, Trail 19 and Trail 20. The “There is probably more than groomers report the conditions 50% of trails open right now,” are great but with some wet areas Ziegler said. “We can't have any remaining. Trails that remain trails going across the (Turtle closed include 51E and 17S in Flambeau) flowage or any of the Vilas County, Trail 182 in Price lakes yet with the ice not substan- County and Trail 11 in Ashland tial enough to hold anything.” County. There is a lot of snow and slush “Please expect early season rid- on the lakes right now, he said. ing,” said Tanner Hiller, Sno- Once the ice is frozen more areas Goers public relations. Tom LaVenture / Daily Globe of the trails will open, he said. The Riding the Flowage or Lake of MERCER AREA Sno-Goers members Tom Ziegler, left, vice president, and Tanner Hiller, public rela- Sno-Goers website (mercersnogo- tions, with one of the snowmobile club's four tractors set up to pull a trail groomer on Thursday ers.com) or on Facebook. The night. The club announced Thursday the 10 trails they maintain are open and about 50% rideable. Mercer Area Chamber of Com- SNOW — page 5 FROST FRIDAY Town of Pence gets over $600,000 in USDA funds By RICHARD JENKINS in federal money is split water losses. Working with our [email protected] between $398,000 in grant partners, these investments cre- WASHINGTON — The town funds and $240,000 in loans, ated jobs and improve public of Pence is in line to receive over according to the announcement, health and safety,” USDA Deputy $600,000 in federal funds to and is part of a $635 million Undersecretary for Rural Devel- help with a sewer project, the investment in 122 projects opment Donald “DJ” LaVoy said U.S. Department of Agriculture- around the country. in the Nov. 19 announcement. Rural Development announced “These investments will bring The Pence project will includ- recently. reliable infrastructure to rural ing “sewer collection system “It's great (to hear about the communities. They will replace improvements,” according to funding),” said Pence town old, fragile leaking water pipes information about the award. chairman Michael Paternoster. with new ones and allow “This project … will include “It's been a longtime coming — a upgrades to water handling sys- lot of paperwork, a lot of work.” tems that are decades old, boost- The total award of $638,000 ing water pressure and cutting PENCE page 5 Tom LaVenture / Daily Globe — THE LOBBY of the Historic Ironwood Theatre fills with holiday shoppers late afternoon Friday as the Northern Elves Festival featuring the NoEl Holiday Market got underway as part of First Friday and Frost Friday events related to the Jack Frost MTA members retain same leadership for 2020 Festival. By P.J. GLISSON don’t think cook while Evelyn Gunderman [email protected] he’s replace- and Sheri Hartman worked as MARENISCO — Members of able,” she waitresses, with all of them adding the Gogebic County Chapter of said. holiday cheer in Santa hats. E-TC Board announces budget the Michigan Townships Associa- The meet- The case for natural mineral tion voted Thursday evening to ing was at water was the topic of guest speak- By JAN TUCKER bus driver-mechanic. Jay Saaranen reinstate the same officers for duty Earla’s Restau- er for the evening Jim Luedtke, a [email protected] resigned his position and the in 2020. rant on the developer of Superior Waters in EWEN — The Ewen Trout board thanked him for his years of Remaining in charge are Chair- main street of Marenisco, explained how, when Creek Board of Education recently service. The district is seeking a man John Cox, Treasurer Hope Marenisco. It he moved here a decade ago, “I Tarnaski, and Secretary Vicky was combined was ready to retire,” but then real- received an audit presentation full time bus mechanic/bus driver, Jim Luedtke from auditor Debbie Bradford. with the possibilities of some Finco. with the ized he wasn’t. The overview of the 2018-2019 added transportation duties. Cox noted that next year’s ser- group’s holi- Luedtke said his work resulted audit resulted in positive com- The board approved the Great vice term will run only until Nov. day celebra- in developing a “unique” enter- ments from the board for both the Start Readiness Program as pre- 20 because he does not plan to tion, which included a combina- prise that involves an asset partic- district and for business manager sented by the Gogebic-Onton- run again next fall for his current tion of roast beef and fried chicken ular to this region; “the first true, Tammy Gibson. agon Intermediate School Dis- seat as Wakefield Township super- with several side dishes and natural mineral water.” The reported budget is just trict. The GOISD will open a Great visor. dessert. According to Luedtke, most more than $3 million. Start classroom in Ontonagon Although a new MTA chairman Festively wrapped holiday gifts bottled water manufacturers have Superintendent Dave Radovich County at the E-TC School for 4 must be elected at that time, Tar- also were exchanged as part of a and the board were also pleased year olds who qualify through naski said before the session that raffle. with both the clean audit and the income and eligibility factors. Cox’s leadership will be missed. “I Owner Chris Longley served as MTA — page 5 reported fund balance of $471,677. Families who are residents of E- The board expressed appreciation TC, Ontonagon and Watersmeet to Gibson for her "work and dedi- school districts are welcome to Ironwood Schools to get USDA tech grant cation for the district." apply. The board was informed Radovich reported on the the program is at no cost to the E- By RICHARD JENKINS Teachers, students, parents have trict closer to its goal of providing school's Veteran's Day program. TC district. [email protected] been asking for more student-use every student their own Chrome- He said there was good atten- The board held a brief closed IRONWOOD — Ironwood Area technology,” said Superintendent book. The district sought for a dance by veterans and added the session and when they returned to Schools will be expanding its col- Travis Powell, who said the district $50,000 grant to help fund the pro- turkey meal served to veterans and open session they approved Mary lection of Chromebooks after the found out it was receiving the grant ject, which is expected to cost a total their guests was appreciated. He Nordine, Brad Besonen and Dave district recently learned it will be shortly before Thanksgiving. of $91,093. thanked the various veterans Polkky to advance a step on the receiving a technology grant from Ironwood submitted a grant Since the district submitted its groups which helped support the salary schedule. the U.S. Department of Agriculture- application this fall to purchase 422 program. The board also accepted the Rural Development. Chromebooks and 25 charging sta- The district is looking for a new athletic handbook as presented. “(I'm) very excited about it. tions, which would move the dis- USDA — page 7 TODAY INDEX Cloudy — Details, page 2 Business . .13 75 cents Classifieds . .12-14 Friday Today’s records Snowfall Comics . .11 Vol. 101, No. 15 High 21 High 51 (1939) 24 hours to 7 a.m. Community . .3 Low 16 Low -22 (1936) Friday 0.3 in. Snow depth 26 in. Obituaries . .7 Year ago today Precipitation Season total 57 in. Opinion . .4 High 17 24 hours to 7 a.m. Last year 48.9 in. Sports . .9-10 Low -8 Friday 0.03 in. l 2 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2019 AREA/NATION THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAY FORECASTFOORECAST FOR IRONWOODIRRONWOOD TODAY SUNDAYY MONDAY TUESDAYTUESSDAY WEDNESDAY Scattered Scatteredered Scattered Cloudy Cloudy Snow SnoSnowow Snow 31° 23° 32° 16°166° 18° 6° 8° -4° -1° -9° Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds:Winnds: Winds: 9-149-14 mphmph S 8-118-11 mphmph SSESSE 9 mphmph SESE 99-13-13 mmphph WWNWNW 1133 mphmph WWSWSW Ontonagon LOCALL OUTLOOK 35/27 Todayy we will see cloudy skies with Bergland a highgh temperaturep of 31°,31°, humidityy 31/23 of 87%.7%. South wind 9 to 14 mph.