Stuffed tomato delight Nimrods beat Speedgirls Vegetarian dish serves up Watersmeet begins Class D district tasty, healthy meatless option tournament with victory over Bessemer HEALTH • 6 SPORTS • 9 DAILY GLOBE Tuesday, February 27, 2018 Mostly cloudy yourdailyglobe.com | High: 38 | Low: 18 | Details, page 2 Fire cause undetermined; director praises cooperation By RALPH ANSAMI and professionally, and proud of three victims – Mark Arnold Ver- A top priority is to make the came to tears when he talked [email protected] the other agencies, too,” Klecker rete, 57; Patrick James scene safer by knocking in the walls. about the “sadness” that fell over IRONWOOD – Ironwood said. “Lives were saved.” He Somerville, 51, and Levi Dean Bob Tervonen, volunteer fire the town after the fire. He said he Public Safety Department Direc- added the people who saved lives Watkins, 27, all of Ironwood. chief and the city’s utilities direc- visited business owners and they tor Greg Klecker told the city – both in and out of his depart- Klecker noted fencing has tor, said, “It was a dangerous were thankful that the entire commission Monday last ment – will be honored. been placed at the scene to keep fire.” There’s a video online of a downtown block was not Wednesday’s fatal downtown fire As to the cause of the fire that people from getting too close to wall collapsing and nearly land- destroyed. shows the need for mutual aid resulted in three deaths, Klecker that rubble. ing on a firefighter, who was Erickson said a First Friday agreements. said, “We’re trying to find out City manager Scott Erickson pouring water on the burning celebration downtown will go on Ironwood firefighters were how this happened.” He said it said he heard from the insurance building. as planned Friday, to try to get assisted by the Hurley Fire Depar- may be difficult to find a cause company for the buildings that Tervonen, speaking of the fire- the city back to normal, despite tment and so many first respond- because all that remains is a are owned by Chuck Hagstrom. It fighters, said, “We all went home the closed street. ing agencies that Klecker said he charred pile of rubble at 102-104 could take weeks to excavate the safe. We all went to bed.” Community development is in the process of trying to com- E. Aurora St. structure and reopen that stretch Klecker said the volunteer fire director Tom Bergman said the pile a list of all that helped out. Mayor Annette Burchell began of Aurora Street, Erickson said. department worked as a team First Friday event will address “I’m proud of the way the fire the commission’s meeting with a Klecker said the rubble will be with the IPSD. the fire in a manner to be deter- was handled very proficiently long moment of silence for the cleaned up “as soon as possible.” Commissioner Jim Mildren mined. $1 million cash bond set SNOWMOBILING for Iron murder suspect By RALPH ANSAMI eral Richard Dufour [email protected] requested the $1 million HURLEY – A $1 million bond and Iron County cash bond was set Monday Judge Patrick Madden morning in Iron County agreed. Lussier will contin- Court for one of five men ue to be held in the county charged with the murder of jail at Hurley. Wayne M. Valliere Jr., of Valliere was beaten and Lac du Flambeau. shot to death on Dec. 22. James Lussier, 19, was His body was found in the represented in court by for- Mercer area. mer Iron County District Lussier, of Woodruff, Attorney Marty Lipske, was transferred to Iron who requested Lussier County from the Winneba- receive a signature bond go County Jail. He had and be held on house arrest with his mother. Assistant Attorney Gen- BOND — page 5 Bids approved to tear down Ironwood eyesores By RALPH ANSAMI W. McLeod Ave. at [email protected] $15,921. IRONWOOD – The Angelo Luppino Con- Ironwood City Commis- struction, of Iron Belt, sion on Monday awarded Wis., was the low bidder bids for demolition of five on the other four houses: Larry Holcombe/Daily Globe houses as part of the Hard- At 357 E. Houk St., for SNOWMOBILERS RIDE a trail in downtown Hurley Sunday. est Hit grant program. $13,625; at 244 E. Pine St., It continues the pro- for $19,139; at 324 E. Oak gram that has leveled St., for $11,582, and at 301 scores of eyesores through- E. Oak St., for $24,877. out the city. In addition to the Hard- Bessemer set to hire principal Snow Country Con- est Hit grant money, some tracting of Bessemer was the low bidder for Wineburner as next superintendent removal of a house at 322 IRONWOOD — page 5 about the future and Human Ser- n District ponders of the high vices, spoke moving elementary school principal about the Path- Township board approves students to former position. ways to Potential The board program the parking sign purchase St. Sebastian School also agreed to Bessemer Area enter into negoti- Schools has been By RICHARD JENKINS overnight and it gets in the By IAN MINIELLY ations to lease selected for. The [email protected] way of the plows,” Town- [email protected] the St. Sebastian program works IRONWOOD TOWN- ship Supervisor Steve Boyd BESSEMER – A.D. Johnston High School in a move “with families to SHIP – The Ironwood said after the meeting. School principal Dave Wineburner that would allow identify and Dave Dave Township Board of He added the street is in line to become the next super- Wineburner the district to Radovich remove barriers Trustees approved pur- parking also posed a intendent of the Bessemer Area close Washing- and connect chasing no-parking signs potential danger as cars Schools, according to officials at the ton School. them to net- Monday night, designed to coming over the hill on school board meeting Monday The plan, which is subject to works of service.” One of the key remind drivers overnight Sunset Road have little evening. change, has K-3 or K-4 transition to aims is to combat truancy. parking isn’t allowed dur- time to react to cars in the The parties have agreed tentative- St. Sebastian for the 2019-2020 Parrott said they have discovered ing the winter. street. ly to a contract, but the lawyers must school year. This would allow time if a kid has trouble with attendance “We’ve had some issues “We’ve had several near- review it and everyone has to sign it. for St. Sebastian to be upgraded as in grade school, by the time that stu- with parking, particularly Superintendent Dave Radovich is needed. on Sunset Road, where retiring at the end of the school year. Karla Parrott, success coach with people are parking No information was provided the Michigan Department of Health PARKING — page 5 BESSEMER — page 5 Ontonagon hears report about water quality, sewer operations By JAN TUCKER supply system. 2020 and a verified inventory by Erickson noted a part per bil- $4.155 million; the 1996 and [email protected] He said that public comments 2024, a mandate to replace all lion is equivalent to a drop of ink 2003 bonds were combined and ONTONAGON – Ontonagon on the MDEQ lead copper rules lead service lines and new sam- in an Olympic-sized swimming refinanced to a lower interest rate Village Manager Joe Erickson for drinking water are due March pling requirements. pool or one second in 32 years. in 2004. informed the Ontonagon Village 7. He explained changes include “The costs of verifying lead in Erickson also answered some He also said water from the Council Monday that new Michi- lowering the action level for lead the water supply system could be of the questions from the public sewer lagoons is discharged from gan Environmental Quality rules from 15 parts per billion to 10 significant and will likely have an which were raised at the Feb. 12 for drinking water will add to the ppb. This requires an inventory impact on water rates across the meeting. cost of operating a public water of lead in the supply system by state,” Erickson said. He said the total water debt is ONTONAGON — page 5 TODAY INDEX Mostly cloudy — Details, page 2 Business . .14 75 cents Classifieds . .12-13 Monday Today’s records Snowfall Comics . .11 Vol. 99, No. 83 High 43 High 55 (2000) 24 hours to 7 a.m. Community . .3 Low 22 Low -25 (2015) Monday none Snow depth 28 in. Obituaries . .7 Year ago today Precipitation Season total 132.4 in. Opinion . .4 High 28 24 hours to 7 a.m. Last year 109.3 in. Low -4 Monday none Sports . .9-10 l 2 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2018 NATION / WORLD THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAY FORECASTFOORECAST FOR IRONWOODIRRONWOOD TODAY WEDNESDAYWEDNESDDAY THURSDAY FRIDAYFRIDDAY SATURDAY Mostly Cloudy Partly CloudyClouudy Mostly Cloudy Partly CloudyC Partly Cloudy 38° 18° 37° 21°211° 33° 19° 35° 16° 34° 19° Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds:Winnds: Winds: 3-83-8 mphmph WSWWSW 6 mphmph NNNENE 6-106-10 mphmph NNENNE 7 mphmph E 6-96-9 mphmph E Ontonagon LOCALL OUTLOOK 36/22 Todayy we will see mostly cloudy Bergland skies,, highg of 38°,, humidityy of 69%. 41/21 West southwest wind 3 to 8 mph. Wakefield Ironwood The record high for today is 55° set Saxon 41/20 38/18 Marenisco in 2000.20000. Expect mostly cloudy skies 39/19 tonight,tonighht, overnight low of 18°. Bessemer 43/21 Upson Hurley 40/20 Watersmeet Associated Press 38/18 38/18 45/20 SUNS AND MOON SHAWN ROSER, from Venice, Florida, a student at the North American college in Mercer Rome, throws a snowball as he plays in a snow blanketed St.