Call (906) 932-4449 Ironwood, MI Hurley football New conferences announced Redsautosales.com for 2020 SPORTS • 9 DAILY GLOBE Friday, April 19, 2019 Sunny yourdailyglobe.com | High: 56 | Low: 36 | Details, page 2 IT’S A BOMB Silver Express gears up for spring tour By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] HURLEY – The nine singers and performers in Hurley’s Sil- ver Express are finishing up their final rehearsals in the com- ing days as they prepare for the concerts and subsequent spring tour. The group of five seniors, four freshman and one sopho- more will perform shows at 7 p.m. Wednesday through Satur- day in the Hurley K-12 School’s auditorium. Submitted photo The shows promise a, “Huge WESLEY ERICKSON holds a grenade he found while magnet fish- variety of music, from oldies to ing in Powdermill Creek from a bridge on Eli Avenue Tuesday. what’s on the radio today,” co- director Roy Haeger said. “I try as hard as I can to hav the kids Magnet fisherman pick most of the tunes, which you might think means they’re all newer. But honestly, some- dredges up times I’m shocked with the oldies and things the kids will bring to practice.” The week after the group explosive device completes its Hurley concerts, Haeger said it will kick off a tour By BRYAN HELLIOS mined what it was, he said his of the region; which includes [email protected] wife called the police. stops in in Glidden, South BESSEMER – For Wesley “Before I put it down, I figured Shore, Arbor Vitae and Wausau Erickson, magnet fishing has net- I’d take a picture of it,” Erickson “We’re staying in Wisconsin, ted him numerous fishing lures, said, “that way I can show peo- except for one place – we’re a few pocket knives and some ple, because who the heck is going over to Calumet,” Haeger scrap pieces of iron, but he never going to believe I found a said. thought he would find a grenade. grenade down there.” The students, who audi- “Who would expect to find a He said one officer stopped tioned to join the Silver Express hand grenade in Upper Michi- by, asked to see the pictures of it Richard Jenkins/Daily Globe in October, have been practicing gan,” he said. and told me to “stay on the upper SILVER EXPRESS guitarist Devin Kelly and singer Haley Mead, for the shows since January When Erickson first pulled it part of the bank.” practice for a song in the Hurley auditorium Thursday in prepa- after the group wrapped up its from the bridge over Powdermill Erickson said he had to leave ration for the group’s upcoming concerts and spring tour. Christmas program. Creek on Eli Avenue Tuesday, he shortly after the officer arrived so said it was “clumped up” with he could pick up his kids. Within mud. He rinsed it off with water and saw the handle and pin of the explosive. Once he deter- Meyers holds Iron County listening sessions BOMB — page 5 By RICHARD JENKINS in the budget all the time – ing $78 million for expanding [email protected] transportation and infrastruc- broadband Internet availability. MERCER, Wis. – Rep. Beth ture, education, and then Regarding the proposed 8- Ewen hunter found Meyers, D-Bayfield, met with healthcare. Those are the big cent per gallon gas tax, Meyers Iron County residents Wednes- three that probably cost the said she didn’t know whether day in a pair of listening, ses- state the most money,” Meyers the proposed tax would be the guilty of deer poaching sions on Gov. Tony Evers pro- told the Daily Globe, regarding solution that is agreed upon at ONTONAGON – A Ewen Judge Janis Burgess. It took the posed budget. some of what she felt were the the end of the budget negotia- man who claimed the “laws of jury ten minutes to find the Ewen First at the Iron County main points in the budget. “One tions or whether there would be nature” decree that “he did not man guilty. Courthouse in Hurley and later of the things I’m pleased Gov. a different way to generate addi- need a license to hunt deer, was A sentencing date will be set. at the Mercer Public Library, the Evers is doing is the broadband tional revenue; but she said found guilty of just that in an In addition to fines and court sessions were an opportunity increase. Some of our Republi- something had to change. Ontonagon jury trial Thursday. costs, Ehinger will be liable for for residents to discuss various can colleagues are already say- “I’m not sure how this is all Ronald Ehinger, 68, was charged restitution. Restitution is listed as budget proposals – including a ing, ‘That’s too much money,’ going to unfold, but we’ve got a with two counts of taking an $1,000 for a deer, $2,000 for an potential increase in the state’s they’re not going to agree to it. lot of things we can look at. We antlered deer with 8 points or antlered deer and $500 per point gas tax – as well as other con- But I think it’s a nice baseline to can look at a wheel tax, registra- more. on an deer with 8 points or more; cerns they wanted to bring to start at. … As we all know up tion increases, toll roads – all of Ehinger demanded a jury trial bringing the possible fine to Madison’s attention. here, this is critical.” and a 6 person jury heard the $8,000. “The big issues in the budget During the listening session, case Thursday morning before —Jan Tucker are the same big issues that are Meyers said Evers was propos- MEYERS — page 5 GCC cosmetology program reveals new, improved branding By BRYAN HELLIOS [email protected] IRONWOOD – GCC Cosme- tology unveiled its branding strategy at a Thursday afternoon celebration held at Gogebic Com- munity College. Invitees gathered around stu- dents holding balloons as instructors Nicole Hocking and Laura Erickson ripped off a plas- tic covering to reveal the pro- gram’s new name, “The Cosme- tology Academy – Creative Careers.” Erickson, instructor at the academy, said the cosmetology program has never had a brand. “It was time to give us our own identity,” she said. She compared the previous name of the program to a plain package of cotton rounds versus Bryan Hellios/Daily Globe CHRISTINE KAROW, left, Laura Erickson, her son Isaac, Nicole Hocking and Felicity Salchert take part in the unveiling event on Thurs- day at Gogebic Community College. GCC — page 5 TODAY INDEX Sunny — Details, page 2 Classifieds . .12-13 75 cents Comics . .11 Thursday Today’s records Snowfall Community . .3 Vol. 100, No. 127 High 42 High 84 (1987) 24 hours to 7 a.m. Home & Garden . .7 Low 34 Low 8 (1983) Thursday none Snow depth 8 in. Obituaries . .6 Year ago today Precipitation Season total 181.6 in. Opinion . .4 High 37 24 hours to 7 a.m. Last year 172.3 in. Low 14 Thursday 0.86 in. Sports . .9-10 l 2 FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2019 AREA / NATION THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAY FORECASTFOORECAST FOR IRONWOODIRRONWOOD TODAY SATURDAYSATURDAAY SUNDAY MONDAYMONNDAY TUESDAY Sunny Mostly SunnySunnny Mostly Cloudy Partly CloudyC Partly Cloudy 56° 36° 67° 41°411° 53° 35° 49° 37° 50° 39° Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds:Winnds: Winds: 22-6-6 mphmph W 6-106-10 mphmph S 7 mmphph WWSWSW 5-85-8 mphmph NNENNE 8 mphmph E Ontonagon LOCALL OUTLOOK 42/36 Todayy we will see sunny skies, high Bergland of 5656°,°, humidityy of 35%. West wind 55/36 2 to 6 mph. The record high for Wakefield Ironwood today is 84° set in 1987. Expect clear Saxon 56/37 56/36 Marenisco skies tonight, overnight low of 36°. 57/37 SouthSoutheastheast wind 3 to 6 mph. 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