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Built as one of the Civilian Conservation Corps camps during the Great Depression, Norrie Park is one of Ironwood’s oldest parks.
It features hiking and biking trails, a playground, and access to the Montreal River.
“It is really a beloved park by the community. It’s on the southern part of the city and it’s actually right next to the ABR ski trails. It does get quite a bit of traffic,” said Tom Bergman, Ironwood Community Development Director.
Ironwood recently secured more than $111,000 in grant funding from the Michigan DNR to make improvements to Norrie Park.
“Part of the project is to renovate those features, so the boardwalks, some paved trail that needs to be rebuilt, fishing dock, all those things will be renovated as part of this project. And then also, in addition to that, there will be an ADA compliant kayak boat launch that would be put in at the slow whatever section of the Montreal River,” said Bergman.
Elmore-to-Genoa bike trail a history lesson, says Mayor Bergman
Members of the Flatlanders Bicycle Club were among the first bicyclists to tour the Elmore-to-Geneoa section of the North Coast Inland Bike Trail after last Thursday’s ribbon cutting. (Photos by D’Arcy Patrick Egan)
BY D’ARCY PATRICK EGAN
GENOA When bicyclists rolled in to the Village of Genoa on Thursday night, their journey included a pair of ribbon cuttings and a surprising number of people pedaling the four-mile trail, it was an enormous victory for the family of the late Agnes E. “Tomme” Bergman.
Kandace York of Luckey, Ohio took a cruise on the new North Coast Inland Bike Trail as it crossed the Portage River in Elmore, and gave it her stamp of approval. (Photos by D’Arcy Patrick Egan)
Towns celebrating completion of Inland Trail section Published by news@presspubli. on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 4:00pm
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Larry Limpf
Ribbon-cutting ceremonies are scheduled for April 22 to mark the completion of the Elmore-Genoa leg of the North Coast Inland Trail. Mayor Rick Claar of Elmore will host a ceremony at 6 p.m. on the south end of the Portage River Bridge and Tom Bergman, mayor of Genoa, will hold a ceremony in his village at 7 p.m. at Veterans Park. The section of the trial stretches about 3.82 miles over abandoned rail lines and cost about $2.4 million to complete. Members of the Ottawa County Park District and the county commissioners have been invited to attend the ceremonies, Claar said, as well as members of the village councils.
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Part 3: Wednesday, February 17 at 10pm
Part 4: Wednesday, February 24 at 10pm
Join journalist and athlete Ade Adepitan as he travels across Africa to discover how the continent is changing. With his very personal take on the continent, this four-part series asks the question: Just as the last 30 years transformed Asia, does the future belong to Africa?
Africa With Ade Adepitan, Copyright: BBC
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Explore the complicated history of the American South and its music through the life of country star Charley Pride. Raised in segregated Mississippi, his journey shows the ways that artistic expression can triumph over prejudice and injustice.
A bruising gut punch.
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Nanfu Wang follows One Child Nation with an eye-opening investigation for HBO of the COVID-19 outbreak and the common thread of misinformation from both Chinese and American leaders.
In the closing moments of her blistering account of government and media mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic in both China and the U.S., director Nanfu Wang says: I have lived under authoritarianism and I have lived in a society that calls itself free; in both systems, ordinary people become casualties of their leaders pursuit of power. Like last year s
76 Days, the first half of Wang s film is an urgently immersive recap of the chaos that gripped Wuhan at the start of the outbreak in early 2020. The second half turns its haunted gaze to the arrival of the virus on American shores, and the refusal to heed ample warning signs and contain the foreseeable spread.