Stay Home Videos

The City of Bessemer wants to hear why it's important to you to Stay Home. Create and share a video montage of why you stay home - they can be […]

Ditch the Dish! Streaming media 101 online class

Back by popular demand and this time online for your socially-distanced viewing enjoyment... Join us online for our first "Tech from Home" program! Want to “cut the cord” or “ditch […]

Townhall on Mental Health and COVID-19

The Cities of Ironwood, Wakefield, and Bessemer are going to have their second town hall in regards to COVID-19 (Coronavirus). This townhall will focus on mental health. We will have […]

NICER Earth Week Community Cleanup

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, NICER, Extension Iron County and the Hurley Chamber of Commerce are planning an Earth Week Community Cleanup! We are encouraging families […]

Virtual Townhall with Western U.P. Health Department

The Cities of Bessemer, Ironwood, and Wakefield are hosting the fourth townhall in regards to COVID-19 (coronavirus). The Cities are bringing back Kate Beer with the Western U.P. Health Department to answer questions. Questions can be emailed to Bessemer City Manager Charly Loper at charly.loper@bessemermi.org. Not all questions may be answered during the townhall, but […]

Grown-Up Story Hour: Social Distance Edition

Since you can't come to Grown-Up Story Hour, we'll bring the story hour to you! Join us for an ONLINE grown-up story hour on Thursday, April 30 at 6:00 p.m. Make yourself a snack, pour yourself a drink if you're into that, and sit down at your computer to enjoy an hour of short stories, […]

Public Health COVID-19 Fund

During these uncertain times we are grateful for the support and encouragement from all of you. We are confident that this crisis has not derailed us from continuing to build up and promote healthy lifestyles in our community. In fact, now more than ever we have the opportunity to make the Gogebic Range a healthy […]

Virtual Townhall with Area Schools

The Cities of Bessemer, Ironwood, and Wakefield are hosting the fifth townhall in regards to COVID-19 (coronavirus). The Cities are are teaming up with schools from Hurley to Wakefield including Gogebic Community College to update us on their happenings. The event will take place on City of Wakefield Michigan's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/cityofwakefield/.

Mercer Book Club reads “Everything I Never Told You” by C. Ng

The Mercer Book Club meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 1:00 p.m. New members are always welcome! Copies of the book are usually available to borrow from the library about 3-4 weeks before the book club meeting. Our 2019/2020 reading list is: October 1 - "As Bright as Heaven" by Susan Messner […]