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West End

Beating the jinx is always going to be job one

ISHPEMING — “Can they ‘beat the jinx?’ The annual question is at hand as Ishpeming and Iron Mountain football forces grid to do battle for the 18th time in a series in which the Hematites have yet to win. The series has produced some excellent football, but the end result has always ...

West End Update – City of Negaunee

NEGAUNEE — Housing is topic that can evoke many thoughts and emotions - primality due to the area’s lack of it. How do we overcome the emotions surrounding this issue, so we can effectively solve it and actually provide housing? Problems are rarely fixed by raw emotional responses ...

Historically speaking

By VIRGINIA PAULSON Negaunee Historical Society NEGAUNEE — Mary Tippett Andes interviewed Glen Bjork of Negaunee for this article about underground mining. Glenn Bjork started working part time at the Princeton Mine in Gwinn in March of 1943, while he was still in high school. He ...

West End Update – City of Negaunee

NEGAUNEE — We are on the heels of another amazing weekend in Negaunee with the Heikki Lunta Winter Festival 2024. Heikki Lunta officially kicked off with the lighting of the traditional bonfire and was followed up with the Irontown Rail Jam. The jam offered an enhanced course when compared ...

Historically speaking

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the final part of a two-part series on this topic. NEGAUNEE — “There is no longer a doubt in the minds of at least a majority of the coroner’s jury, as well among our people generally, that little Eva Lafreniere, whose body was found in the garret of Mrs. ...

Historically speaking

NEGAUNEE — James Lehtonen, was born to Leonard and Senia (Wigg) Lehtonen on Sept. 20, 1933. The family lived at 309 Tobin St., in Negaunee. Jim’s mother died when he was three years old his father married Elsie Mattson. He had one sister Barbara, who was a teacher in Clinton Township in ...