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Call (906) 932-4449 DAYSDAYS ‘TIL CHRISTMAS Ironwood, MI 22 Annual NNewew Year’s Eve PParty!arty! NCAA Basketball Tues., Dec. 31 - Doors open 8pm Michigan enters Redsautosales.com poll at No. 4 SPORTS • 9 Since 191 9 DAILY GLOBE Tuesday, December 3, 2019 Mostly cloudy yourdailyglobe.com | High: 29 | Low: 21 | Details, page 2 BIG SNOW COUNTRY Gogebic Range recovers from weekend snow storm By TOM LAVENTURE [email protected] IRONWOOD – The second storm of the week brought about 20.1 inches of new snow to the west and northwest of Ironwood over the weekend, said Taylor Prislovsky, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Marquette. The highest total for the Upper Peninsula was 28.2 inches about three miles east of Rapid River in Delta County, he said. The Climate Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service, has an Tom LaVenture/Daily Globe equal chance for below average, A GROUP of snowmobilers from Wautoma and Amherst, Wisconsin, prepare to load their machines next to the Historic Ironwood average and above average tem- Depot following a Monday morning on Ironwood area trails. From left, Ed Klinger, Mike Klieforth, John Krueger and Katie Krueger. peratures for the U.P. this winter, he said. It is too early to tell what changes this far out,” Prislovsky “The wet snow and freezing driz- tions were still unsafe to try and tions and closings for November kind of winter the U.P. will have said. zle led to icy conditions, and operate in ice and wind.” and early December since the air- but the storms are consistent The weather should remain numerous flights were canceled The airline does its best to line’s first year here in 2014 when with the prediction for above partly cloudy with temperatures due to the inclement weather. accommodate passengers affect- 280 inches fell that year as average precipitation, he said. in the teens and twenties through Weather conditions account- ed by cancellations, he said. opposed to the average 166 inch- “So far it does seem to be hit- Saturday when there is another ed for 14 cancelled commercial There are refunds or rescheduled es, he said. ting the pattern,” Prislovsky said. chance of snow showers. It is flights (six Minneapolis and eight flight accommodations. The Michigan State Police There is a 40% chance of snow expected to be cloudy through Chicago) between Nov. 11 “A few drove to Rhinelander to Wakefield Post said there were no showers this evening through Sunday. through Monday, said Shane catch a flight from there,” he said. serious calls and officially only Wednesday with a minor region- The Gogebic-Iron County Air- Storz, CEO of Air Choice One air- “We do our best but it’s hard to responded to one report of a car al system moving through, port was shut down at one point lines via phone from St. Louis, find alternative transportation in and deer collision on Nov. 26, according to the weather service. in the storm, “The storms last Missouri. blizzard conditions.” and a car in a ditch on Nov. 27 on “This seems to me to be a week caused lots of problems for “We still had issues at Iron- Weather related closings have weak synoptic system but it’s too the airport and the airlines,” said wood on Monday,” Storz said. not been unusual for Ironwood far out ... snowfall amount easily Michael Harma, airport manager. “The airport was open but condi- but these are the most cancella- STORM — page 5 FALLEN SNOW Mercer has new DNR property manager By TOM LAVENTURE parts man- tle Turtle River Dam. She also [email protected] aged more manages hunter walking trails MERCER, Wis. – The Wis- than 1,000 and ski and snowshoe trails that consin Department of Natural c a mp s i te s . are maintained by MECCA. Resources now has a full time Prior to that, “My role is going to be work- property manager at the Mercer she was at ing on property and looking at Ranger Station. the DNR Ser- the recreation involvement part Beth Feind started work Nov. vice Center of it and working with the mas- 12 as the property manager of in Woodruff. ter plan,” she said. the Turtle Flambeau Scenic “My expe- The previous part-time man- Waters Area for the Bureau of rience work- ager, Brett Beckham, is a retired Parks and Recreation of the Wis- Beth ing in the DNR law enforcement ranger Feind consin DNR. The role includes DNR has who was filling in with the prop- inspecting and improving boat always been erty manager role before Feind landings, trails and parking lots, a pleasure,” Feind said. accepted the position. Having along with rustic family and Feind manages 35,685 acres someone in the role part time group campsites. of Turtle Flambeau Scenic covered the priorities but more “I take care of the recreation Waters Area, established by can be done with a full-time side of things,” Feind said. “I Chippewa and Flambeau manager, she said. make sure that our campsites Improvement Company in 1926. “I am excited to be in this role aren’t eroding or causing any This includes 14,326 water because we haven’t had some- problems.” acres, 327 miles of shoreline and one as a full time property man- Feind has been with the DNR 195 islands and floating bogs. ager for five years,” she said. since 2010. She was previously a Part of the role is managing “Brett was graciously filling in park ranger at Northern High- 66 campsites accessible only by land American Legion State For- water along with six boat land- est where she and her counter- ings, the Turtle Dam and the Lit- MERCER — page 5 Former Bessemer drug dealer arrested in Duluth fentanyl bust By RICHARD JENKINS Evans said 80 grams of “sus- Team conducting several con- [email protected] pected pure fentanyl” was seized trolled buys from Bowser. DULUTH – A Chicago man during the execution of three The execution of a search who was sentenced to federal search warrants in the case. Fen- warrant on his Bessemer resi- prison for dealing heroin in tanyl is a synthetic opioid that dence led to the seizure of 35 Bessemer in 2016 was arrested can be up to 100 times stronger grams of heroin. late last month in Duluth, in than morphine. Rather than commencing his what authorities there say may “The drugs seized during this 2016 sentence, a Department of be the biggest fentanyl seizure in operation would have been Justice news release said Bowser Minnesota this year. enough to kill more than 26,000 was being transported to Dou- Raymond Valentino Bowser, people,” Evans said in a state- glas County, Wisconsin to face 35, was one of two men arrested ment. heroin-related charges there and Nov. 21 in Duluth during an Bowser had previously been to U.S. District Court in Min- undercover operation, accord- sentenced to five years in federal nesota for violating the terms of ing to the Minnesota Bureau of prison and 12 years of super- his supervised release from a Criminal Apprehension. Denzel vised release in March 2016 for 2008 federal drug conviction Submitted photo Lavon Hale, 29, of Duluth was distribution of heroin within that he was still on at the time of A TREE bears the weight of recent snows that fell around the also arrested. 1,000 feet of a playground after Gogebic Range in recent days. Ironwood resident Bonnie Wainio In addition to the arrests, an investigation that included submitted the photo. BCA Superintendent Drew the Gogebic Iron Area Narcotics BUST — page 5 TODAY INDEX Mostly cloudy — Details, page 2 Classifieds . .12-13 75 cents Comics . .11 Monday Today’s records Snowfall Community . .3 Vol. 101, No. 11 High 34 High 58 (1982) 24 hours to 7 a.m. Health . .6 Low 22 Low -20 (1976) Monday 6.5 in. Snow depth 26 in. Obituaries . .2 Year ago today Precipitation Season total 56 in. Opinion . .4 High 30 24 hours to 7 a.m. Last year 42.9 in. Sports . .9-10 Low 23 Monday .29 in. l 2 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2019 AREA / NATION THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAY FORECASTFOORECAST FOR IRONWOODIRRONWOOD Obituaries TODAY WEDNESDAYWEDNESDDAY THURSDAY FRIDAYFRIDDAY SATURDAY Eugene ‘Gene’ J. Juoni ASHLAND, Wis. — On the after- YouTube). There was noon of Dec. 1, 2019, at the age of 86, nothing we didn’t Few Snoww Mostly Cloudy Mostly Cloudy Partly CloudyC Mostly Cloudy Eugene “Gene” J. Juoni went to his think our father Showerss eternal home to be with his Lord and could not do. 29° 21° 28° 18°188° 29° 15° 20° 12° 31° 23° Savior, Jesus Christ. He was not an Gene was born in High Bridge, on overtly open, emo- Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds:Winnds: Winds: July 12, 1933 the only child of Jacob tional man. Compli- 1010 mmphph WSWWSW 10-1410-14 mmphph W 6-136-13 mphmph WSWWSW 7-107-10 mphmph WNWWNW 1616 mphmph SSWSSW and Hannah (Nortunen) Juoni. He was ments and praise for Ontonagon LOCALL OUTLOOK raised on his parent’s farm in High accomplishments 35/27 Bridge and spent nearly all his life from dad were rare Todayy we will see mostly cloudy Eugene “Gene” Bergland skies with a slightg chance of snow there. On July 27, 1957 he was joined J. Juoni but if you received 30/22 showeshowers,ers, high temperature of 29°, in marriage to Dale G. Beauregard, one it was a treasure Wakefield 1933 — 2019 Ironwood humidhumiditydity of 82%.