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Bessemer Takes 2Nd in Engineering Competition At Rain likely High: 41 | Low: 29 | Details, page 2 DAILY GLOBE yourdailyglobe.com Friday, March 24, 2017 75 cents SCIENCE OLYMPIAD Odanah man’s Bessemer takes 2nd drug case heads back to in engineering district court By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — The case of an competition at NMU Odanah, Wis., man facing Goge- bic County drug charges is being BESSEMER — Students from 13 and the Bessemer High sent back to district court follow- A.D. Johnston High School com- School team was second to ing a motion by defense attorney peted in the Region 1 Science Calumet in a field of 10. James Bucknell Tuesday. Olympiad tournament at North- The Science Olympiad is a The motion came after ern Michigan University in Mar- national science competition. amended charges had been filed quette Saturday, bringing home The top four teams from the in the case. two seconds. regional tournament receive Carlos Jordan, 30, is expected The competition is about sci- invitations to attend the state to plead guilty to the new ence, technology, engineering tournament in Lansing at the charges of use of cocaine and and math. end of April, and the state win- methamphetamine, as well as a “After an exhausting day of ners advance to the national disorderly person-loitering near competition, the students assem- tournament. an illegal business, according to bled with high hopes and expec- This year, because of schedul- Gogebic County Prosecutor Nick tations for the final results and ing conflicts, the Bessemer Jacobs. standings,” said coach Dave teams will be unable to attend Jordan had originally been Rowe. the state tournament, Rowe said. charged with a possession of “The Bessemer teams have Coaches Dave and Tracy Rowe meth and the disorderly person transitioned from teams that said, “The teams start practicing charge, but Jacobs said state participate to a perennial power and putting together their pro- crime lab testing didn’t bear out house that is always one of the jects in early December, fine tun- the meth possession charge. top finishers in the U.P. This ing and testing in January, with “After subsequent investiga- year, as the awards were the big push coming in Febru- tion and lab testing, essentially announced, we knew early on ary.” the facts were brought out that that things were going well, Sophomore Uriah Aili said, no, he didn’t possess meth,” when our team placed in problem “Science Olympiad is always dif- Jacobs said. after problem, with the junior ferent every year, because of the While the meth possession high team medaling in 15 of the hard challenges they throw at charge is a felony, carrying a 22 problems and the high school you. My brother (Isaiah) and I maximum sentence of 10 years medaling in 17 of the 23 prob- built a helicopter, which takes in prison and/or a fine of lems,” he saId. hours of hard work and determi- $15,000, the two drug use The junior high team finished Submitted photo charges are misdemeanors, with second behind Washington Mid- ADAM MAZUREK and Hannah Janczak, of Bessemer, calibrate their Scrambler Vehicle for testing last Sat- maximum sentences of a year in dle School (Calumet) in a field of urday at the Science Olympiad in Marquette at Northern Michigan University. jail and up to $1,000 in fines — OLYMPIAD page 5 — which is why the case can return from circuit to district court. The disorderly person charge is a misdemeanor, with a maximum sentence of 90 days in jail and/or MEDC has $20 million in ICE program funding a $500 fine. The charges against Jordan By RALPH ANSAMI The Ironwood City Commission held a MEDC Chief Executive Officer Steve and moderate income persons should stem from the early morning [email protected] public hearing Thursday on the ICE Arwood said, “Improving and updating work in the city’s favor. search of a house on in the 1300 The Michigan Economic Development grant application. City manager Scott infrastructure is vital to our communi- The MEDC said grant eligible projects block of Bessemer’s Lead Street. Corporation said this week there’s $20 Erickson said the grant competition will ties’ continued health and economic well- for Michigan communities can include: Jordan is one of four defen- million in funding available in a program be keen and there’s no guarantee that being. With the help of this ICE funding, —Water lines and related facilities. dants charged in connection with in which Ironwood is seeking $2 million Ironwood will receive the money. many communities with serious infras- —Sanitary and storm sewer lines and the search conducted by the for a well-field project. The grant would be used to replace the tructure needs will be able to make nec- facilities. Gogebic-Iron Area Narcotics Small communities have until April 7 municipal water system booster pumping essary improvements.” —Wastewater treatment plants and Team, along with Drug Enforce- to apply for grants under the Community facility. The fact Ironwood has developed a $5 related activities. ment and Alcohol, Tobacco and Development Block Grant Infrastructure The city’s match would amount to million plan for well-field improvements Capacity Enhancement funding round. $222,222. and 55.5 percent of its residents are low GRANT — page 5 CHARGES — page 5 SING FOR HOPE Survey respondents favor W-M paints earlier Gogebic County Fair pianos for By RALPH ANSAMI out of a possible 13,200. “We think we just didn’t ask the right [email protected] hoped for more input. The questions.” BESSEMER — The 1 percent answers were all over the place,” One issue that was made clear charity of Gogebic County residents said commissioner Jeff Wasley, in the responses was that people By IAN MINIELLY responding to a recent survey of Ironwood, who sits on the fair prefer a different gate structure, [email protected] about the annual fair would like board. rather than paying one price at WAKEFIELD — The sky is it to be earlier. “One percent. That says, ‘We the gate for all of the events, the limit when people come The Gogebic County Board of don’t give a rat’s butt,’” commis- including entertainment and to together for each other. The Commissioners reviewed results sioner Tom Laabs, of Ironwood, support the carnival. “Sing For Hope” charity seeks to of the survey Wednesday and said. When asked if they’d attend place decorated pianos in public were disappointed there weren’t Wasley said fair board mem- schools to supplement the more responses. bers work hard to improve the decreasing funds available to Around 170 people responded fair and keep it going, but, “I schools for extracurricular activ- FAIR — page 5 ities like the arts. Bridget Grotberg, an art teacher at the Wakefield- Marenisco K-12 School for the past seven years, heard about Township planning commission sets gravel pit hearing the program and applied in By RICHARD JENKINS cants for one-year permits. November. [email protected] The commission also re-elected its officers, with Grotberg submitted a plan IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — The Ironwood Jason Hofstede chairman, Darrin Kimbler vice her application, portfolio and Township Planning Commission set the date for a chairman and Sandy Lahtinen secretary. resume to incorporate health public hearing regarding the renewal for gravel pit There was also a discussion regarding a pro- and fitness into a piano design. Submitted photo permits at its March 16 meeting. posed state law changing regulations around She said, “I thought I had a WAKEFIELD-MARENISCO’S Bridget Grotberg, an art teacher, shows The annual hearing, a standard part of the small-scale copper mining, with zoning adminis- snowball’s chance in hell,” of the piano she was decorating in New York for the Sing For Hope renewal process for the special use permits for sand trator LeRoy Johnson telling the Daily Globe the charity. Artists arrived at their own expense to decorate 50 pianos and gravel pits, is scheduled for April 20 at 6 p.m. township will likely write a letter to its represen- that were being donated to the schools in New York to bring “hope at the township hall. tatives advocating for more local control in the through the arts,” according to Grotberg. Last year, the commission approved 12 appli- bill. CHARITY — page 5 C O N T A C T U S WEATHER INSIDE INDEX TODAY HOUSE OF THE WEEK Classifieds . .10-11 Daily Globe Inc. Thursday Precipitation High 40 To 7 a.m. Comics . .9 Vol. 98, No. 106 118 E. McLeod Ave. Rain likely Open-layout home provides Low 27 Thursday 0.01 in. Community . .3 P.O. Box 548 —Details, page 2 space, luxury Ironwood, MI 49938 Year ago today Snowfall — page 12 Obituaries . .2 High 36 To 7 a.m. Home & Garden . .12 Low 22 Thursday 0.1 in. yourdailyglobe.com Today’s records Snow depth none Opinion . .4 906-932-2211 High 70 (1910) Season total 114.6 in. Sports . .7-8 Low -27 (1965) Last year 156.2 in. 2 l FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2017 AREA / STATE THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAYFIVE-DAAY FORECASTT FOR IRONWOODIRONWOOOD Obituaries TODAY SATURDAYSAATURDAY SUNDAYSUNDAAY MONDAY TUESDAY John Herbert ‘Herb’ Nelson WAUSAU, Wis. — John Herbert “Herb” ace cribbage player. He was Nelson, 83, passed away on March 19, 2017, in quick to laugh, always ready Lakeview Heights at Mount View Care Center with a joke, and an engaging Rain Likely MostlyMoostly Cloudy Isolated RainR Isolated Rain Partly Cloudy in Wausau, surrounded by his family. storyteller. He was generous Herb was born on March 9, 1934, to the late and sincere with compli- 41° 29° 41°411° 30° 39° 31°3 42° 30° 42° 29° Oscar and Anna Nelson in Ironwood, Mich.
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