Commission Hears Cemetery Complaints
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Partly cloudy High: 79 | Low: 62 | Details, page 2 DAILY GLOBE yourdailyglobe.com Wednesday, May 29, 2013 75 cents Dalbeck zoning request denied By RALPH ANSAMI Community Development [email protected] Director Michael Brown said IRONWOOD — The Iron- Tuesday the city had to legally wood City Commission rejected take some action. one zoning request and tabled Acting Mayor Rick Semo another on Tuesday. noted the rezoning wouldn’t Commissioners voted 4-0 to comply with the city’s compre- reject a request from George hensive zoning plan and he said Dalbeck to rezone property in he didn’t favor spot zoning. the Bonnie Road area from res- Mayor Kim Corcoran was idential to residential-3, which absent. would allow horses and con- Several property owners struction of a repair building on from the Bonnie Street area a parcel owned by Dalbeck. attended Tuesday’s meeting The planning commission and two spoke against the had voted 6-0 to reject the requested rezoning. request and the city commis- In another zoning matter, a sion considered the rezoning at its last meeting, but took no action. ZONING — page 5 IRONWOOD Commission hears Cortney Ofstad/Daily Globe MEMBERS OF the future Class of 2025 pose with their diplomas after the kindergarten graduation ceremony at the Wakefield-Marenisco School cemetery complaints on Tuesday. By RALPH ANSAMI n’t enough to please city com- Iron County learns about septic system requirements [email protected] missioners, nor the general IRONWOOD — City manag- public. By CORTNEY OFSTAD County has about 22,000 septic systems. “Nitrates cause plants to grow, and if er Scott Erickson acknowledged “It was a mess,” said Iron- [email protected] Each year, the county sends out thousands these systems don’t get inspected, the prob- Tuesday to the city commission wood resident Paul Grbavcich. HURLEY — The Iron County Board of of cards reminding people to get their sys- lem is just going to get worse,” Collins said. that Riverside Cemetery wasn’t He said the roads in the ceme- Supervisors was updated about septic sys- tems inspected. County board chairman Joe Pinardi, of in good shape for Memorial tery and water system needed tem requirements Tuesday. “The return rate on their cards is 97 per- Hurley, thanked Collins for making the Day. to be improved and the leaves Bob Collins, of Oma, spoke about how cent,” Collins said. “Here, Tom sends out board aware of the situation, and said the Erickson said the city crew from last fall should have been the state requires septic pumps to be thor- about 400 to 500 cards each year, and the county will continue to work on finding a did the best it could, but the cleaned up. oughly inspected or pumped every three return rate is 50 to 60 percent. Also, in solution. soggy spring didn’t allow for The consensus was not much years. Vilas County, if you don’t return your card, “I just wanted to make sure that this proper preparations. He said could be done about the long “I have been working with county zoning they send you another card with a court becomes a priority for the county, because I one city employee worked four grass because of all of the rain administrator Tom Bergman and he is well date and a fine of over $100.” know that this board can make things hap- hours of overtime on Memorial in the past two weeks. aware of this law and has been working on Collins said because of uninspected sep- pen, and quickly,” Collins said. Day and 120 man-hours were finding the septic systems that need to be tic systems, plant growth has become a spent in the last week and a inspected or pumped,” Collins said. “pain in the butt” for people trying to use half at the cemetery, but it was- According to Collins, neighboring Vilas local lakes, rivers and streams. CEMETERY — page 5 SEPTIC — page 5 Favorable weather helps ATV rally numbers GCC board hears initiative results By KATIE PERTTUNEN viewed by Lorenson or by the HURLEY — The 28th annual Memorial Day [email protected] deans of the college, and were Weekend All-Terrain Vehicle Rally was a IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP invited to give input on areas “ball,” according to Hurley Area Chamber of — Gogebic Community Col- they thought are working Commerce director Dorren O’Donnell. lege President James Loren- well, things that aren’t work- Both O’Donnell and Mercer Chamber direc- son presented 2013 rounding ing, and other issues, Loren- tor Tina Brunell said the event was a success, initiative results to the board son said. with the weather favorable. of trustees Tuesday. The ini- Issues that need improve- “I think it went really good,” Brunell said. tiative is a concept borrowed ment reported include rela- “The weather was fantastic, and it was a very from the health care field that tionship building and civility busy weekend for Mercer and Iron County, as a GCC modified to meet its whole.” needs, Lorenson said. For O’Donnell, after a late spring with no Staff members were inter- trail riding, the good weekend weather helped GCC — page 5 registration numbers. “With the trails just opening on Monday, and then getting started that following week- WAKEFIELD end, people were holding their breath to see if this was going to happen,” O’Donnell said. “Everything worked out great, with terrific Council fills empty seat, discusses weather and the same amount of Poker Run registrations as last year.” Sunday Lake water testing The volunteers also made the event “a lot of fun,” according to O’Donnell. WAKEFIELD — The city and reducing the library hours “Thank goodness to all of the wonderful peo- council appointed Leslie Sch- and services, the council voted ple that stepped up to the plate and made this neck to the open council seat to authorize a one-mill event a success,” O’Donnell said. “The commu- on Tuesday. ($23,527) tax levy for the pur- nity is so supportive of this event and they Schneck has been a resident pose of operating the library should be really proud. The mud pit on Sunday of Wakefield for about 58 years for the 2013 fiscal year. was phenomenal, because they have a well- and an employee of the Goge- The continuation of the levy oiled machine over there, and everyone came to bic County Road Commission to the 2014 fiscal year will be have fun and they did.” Pat Krause/Daily Globe for 22 years. He’ll be filling the reviewed during the next fiscal For more information on next year’s BRIAN NERBY, of Racine, Wis., drives his machine through the mud at the 2013 Hurley Fire seat of Jason White, whose res- year’s budget work sessions. event, or other events in Iron County, call the Department Mud Pit races on Sunday afternoon. Large crowds lined the trails as riders ignation was accepted on May The state library law allows Mercer Chamber at 715-476-2389 and the Hur- splashed into the pits. The mud races were among several events held during the 28th annu- 13. ley Chamber at 715-561-4334. al Memorial Day Weekend All-Terrain Vehicle Rally. (For more photos of the mud races, see To prevent the city’s general — Cortney Ofstad page 8.) fund from going into a deficit WAKEFIELD — page 5 C O N T A C T U S WEATHER INSIDE INDEX TODAY MOOD MUSIC Business . .14 Daily Globe Inc. Tuesday Records Vol. 94, Ed. 125 118 E. 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