Few showers High: 50 | Low: 30 | Details, page 2 DAILY GLOBE yourdailyglobe.com Wednesday, February 22, 2017 75 cents GOGEBIC COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT Ironwood man gets 11 years for drug, gun charges By RICHARD JENKINS Gogebic County Circuit Judge [email protected] Michael Pope also sentenced BESSEMER — An Ironwood Payeur to the two years mandat- man, who was found guilty on six ed by law for the charge of felony drug and gun charges in Decem- firearm. According to Pope, the ber, was sentenced to a total of law stipulates Payeur doesn’t get 11 years in prison Tuesday in credit for time served and this Gogebic County Circuit Court. sentence must be completed Donovan Howard Payeur, 32, before beginning the sentence for was sentenced to between nine the other charges. and 30 years for the charges of Pope also sentenced Payeur to possession of methamphetamine four to 7.5 years in prison for with intent to deliver and con- possession of a firearm by a felon spiracy to possess meth with and possession of ammunition by intent to deliver. a felon. These two sentences will The maximum sentences were be served concurrently to the two increased from the standard 20 meth charges, meaning they years due to a habitual offender don’t extend Payeur’s sentence Richard Jenkins/Daily Globe A TEARFUL Donovan Payeur, left, addresses Gogebic County Circuit Judge Michael Pope Tuesday during his sentencing hearing. Payeur was sen- designation. further. tenced to 11 years in prison on drug and gun charges. Also present in the courtroom were Payeur’s attorney, Mark McDonald, and Chief Assistant He received 516 days credit Prosecutor Tracie Wittla. for time already served in jail. PAYEUR — page 5 Wisconsin snowmobile death toll reaches 14 Evers, Holtz By RALPH ANSAMI was riding and was run over by a groomer Falls, was pronounced dead at the scene. into trees. Alcohol was not a factor. [email protected] that was approaching from the opposite The driver of the other snowmobile In a Jan. 17 fatality in Minocqua, the The winter snowmobile fatality toll in direction on a hill, according to a DNR was transported by ambulance to Flam- snowmobiler struck a fixed object at an advance in Wisconsin rose to 14 last week with two report. beau Hospital in Park Falls and was later estimated speed of 88 mph, according to a deaths on Feb. 12. The 14 people had died through Feb. transferred to St. Joseph’s Hospital in DNR summary. The driver’s alcohol con- That’s almost double the deaths that 17, the last day the DNR’s fatality reports Marshfield. tent in that accident was .225, or almost were recorded last winter. were updated. Two of the fatalities occurred in Iron three times the level used to determine primary race The latest fatalities were reported in A fatal accident occurred on Friday, County, near Hurley and at Saxon Harbor. intoxication. Clark and Florence counties, according to Feb. 10, on Pike Lake in the town of The WDNR now includes estimated A year ago, the fatality count stood at MADISON, Wis. — Two-term the Wisconsin Department of Natural Fifield, according to the Price County speeds for the accident summaries. The eight. The ninth and last fatal accident of incumbent state Superintendent Resources. Sheriff’s Department. Two snowmobiles snowmobiler at Saxon Harbor was travel- the year occurred on Feb. 26 in Bayfield Tony Evers will face former In the Florence County accident, a 36- collided while crossing the lake. ing around 40 mph along Harbor Drive County when an intoxicated snowmobiler Beloit superintendent Lowell year-old man fell off the snowmobile he Tyler Trotterschaude, 31, of Park when his snowmobile slid out of control struck another vehicle. Holtz in the April 4 election to be the state’s top education official, after the two longtime educators advanced in Tuesday’s primary. Former Dodgeville administra- ERWIN SUNSET tor John Humphries, who tried Hurley School Board to cast himself as more conserva- tive than Evers but more biparti- san than Holtz, was eliminated. grilled for radio show The statewide results were mirrored in Iron County, where Evers took first place easily with By RALPH ANSAMI of Montreal, pointed to the suc- 344 votes to Holtz’s 106 votes. [email protected] cess of the district’s one-on-one Humphries rounded out the trio HURLEY — Hurley School laptop program in his com- with 43 votes in the county. Board members often ask ques- ments and board president Joe The race to head the state tions of students during their Simonich, of Kimball, explained Department of Public Instruc- regular monthly meetings, but how the district has had to cut tion is officially nonpartisan, but on Monday the shoe was on the about $2 million out of its bud- Democrats and their allies back other foot. get over the past decade Evers while Holtz has the sup- Board members were inter- because of dwindling state aid port of two dozen Republican viewed by student journalist funding. lawmakers and conservative Tom Lardinois for the Hurley Student advisor Steve Eder groups. Holtz, who branded him- School Notebook Show that is said the recorded program is self as “kidservative,” touted the heard Thursdays at 6:25 p.m. on edited and sent to WUPM, fact that he was the only one of WUPM-FM Radio. ready to be broadcast. He said the three candidates who did not “Live, from the Hurley School Lardinois has become so profi- sign the petition to recall GOP Board...,” Lardinois began the cient in all facets of the produc- Gov. Scott Walker from office in program, although it isn’t quite tion that “he can do it all him- 2012. live. self.” That recall was spurred by The program includes news, Among the guests to be inter- anger of the law Walker champi- sports, an ad and an interview. viewed was Tony Evers, state oned that all but eliminated col- Each of the five board mem- superintendent of the Wisconsin lective bargaining for public bers was asked a question by Department of Public Instruc- school teachers and other public Lardinois on Monday. Submitted Photo workers, and forced them to pay Board member Dave Pajula, THE SUNSET in Erwin Township last Thursday was spectacular. Deb Leonard contributed the photo she took while biking along South Davis Road. more for their health insurance HURLEY — page 5 and pension benefits. Holtz favors expanding Wis- consin’s private school voucher program and wants to repeal the Common Core academic stan- Gogebic Forestry Commission manages land to improve yields dards, two things that Evers By IAN MINIELLY the county took back after the is on its second cutting, some is are clear cut and there are less Enhancement Management Sys- opposes. [email protected] owners harvested the land and on its third, but there are also than 100 acres of pine that is tem is being expanded across the Evers captured 64 percent of BESSEMER — The Gogebic elected to not pay property virgin stands in the counties planted by hand. Upper Peninsula to create desti- the vote, based on unofficial County Forestry and Parks taxes. As the volume in acres acreage. Riskey said, “we have The GCFP set aside the Mosi- nation sites for grouse hunting returns. Holtz followed with 30 Commission manages over increased, the commission was a lot of northern hardwoods nee Grouse Management Area to and unique opportunities for percent and Humphries had 6 50,000 acres of land in Gogebic formed and is a completely self- that we selectively harvest, enhance ruffed grouse habitat hunting and wildlife viewing.” percent. county. Most of that land, supporting program that is a net which opens up holes in the through a much more intensive according to director Greg boon to the county. canopy for natural regenera- management plan than typical Ryskey was tax reverted land Ryskey said much of the land tion.” Only the Aspen stands forest lands. 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