U.P. counties lose out on FEMA funding for weather damage

By Allison Joy IRON RIVER —  A group of six U.P. counties that had banded together to apply for funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to address weather damage did not meet the required threshold, interim Superintendent Brad Toivunen told the Iron County Road Commission at its monthly meeting on June 13. “It was rather disappointing, what happened to the six counties that were…