Wisconsin Resources Protection Council

Tribal representatives, area residents also speak at committee-of-the-whole meeting

PENNY MULLINS, EH news editor/digital director

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Friday, May 26, 2017 12:00 AM

MENOMINEE — Al Gedicks, a professor of sociology emeritus at UW-La Crosse and executive secretary of the Wisconsin Resources Protection Council (www.wrpc.net), was the only presenter at a committee-of-the-whole meeting of the Menominee City Council Wednesday evening.

Mayor Jean Stegeman, Council members Steve Fifarek and Frank Pohlmann and City Manager Tony Graff attended the committee-of-the-whole meeting, which had been announced late Monday. Prior to that, a joint meeting of the full Menominee City Council and the Marinette Common Council had been scheduled to meet Wednesday with Joe Maki, U.P. District biologist with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.

Only 3 of 9 council members in attendance

PENNY MULLINS, EH news editor/digital director

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Thursday, May 25, 2017 12:01 AM

MENOMINEE — An enthusiastic crowd attended the special committee-of-the-whole meeting of the Menominee City Council Wednesday, where they heard Al Gedicks, a professor of sociology emeritus at UW-La Crosse, speak to the potential hazards a sulfide mine could bring to the environment.

While approximately 130 people attended the meeting, missing were six of nine city council members.

PENNY MULLINS, EH news editor/digital director

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Wednesday, May 24, 2017 12:00 AM

MENOMINEE — The joint meeting between the Menominee and Marinette city councils will not be held as planned tonight; instead, just the Menominee council will meet as a committee of the whole at Menominee High School.

The change came Monday, after planned participants learned the agenda was altered to allow an anti-mining advocate to speak during the meeting about the Back Forty Mine project in Menominee County.