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Ethan Varvick of Marquette, wins Escanaba Fall Classic Run

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ESCANABA — It was a tight race for top honors in the men’s race during the Escanaba Fall Classic five-kilometer run here Saturday. Ethan Vavrick of Marquette won the 3.1-mile event in 18 minutes, 36.5 seconds, followed by Josh March of Iron Mountain at 18:41.1 and L.J. Caron of Cornell (18:54.1) on this sunny and seasonably-cool morning. “I just got back into running this year,” Vavrick said. “I ran my first marathon in Marquette and getting back into speedwork. Having run the marathon really helped me keep a faster pace. The guy behind me (March) was ahead of me for a ...

Rockets survive scare by Cougars

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EBEN JUNCTION — It didn’t start out as the most exciting game of the week but ended up being one of the best games of the week as the Rapid River Rockets defeated the Superior Central Cougars 50-34 here Saturday. The Rockets got off to a fast start as senior Lane Olson connected with ...

Prep Schedule Sept. 22

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Today’s games Soccer Bay Mills Ojibwe Charter at Big Bay de Noc, 4 p.m. Hannahville at Munising Baptist 5 p.m. Volleyball Bay Mills Ojibwe Charter at Big Bay de Noc, 6 p.m. Munising at Rapid River, 6 p.m. Powers North Central at Rock Mid Peninsula, 6 p.m. Carney-Nadeau at Pembine-Goodman, Wis., 6:30 p.m. Gladstone at Escanaba, 7 p.m. Hannahville at Munising Baptist, 7 p.m. Norway at Superior Central, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday’s games Girls’ tennis Great Northern Conference at Marquette, 10 a.m. Cross country El Harger Invitational at Munising, 4 ...

DNR checks on young walleye with upcoming fall electrofishing surveys

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Any night fishing plans in your future this fall? Michigan Department of Natural Resources personnel will be conducting nighttime walleye recruitment surveys from late September to mid-October, so be on the lookout for survey crews when you’re on the water. These surveys are an important ...

Mountains, Molehills, and Motivations

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Roadless Rule. It was controversial a quarter century ago and it appears that it remains so. The “environmental” PACs are coming-out in earnest, no doubt hoping to drum-up memberships with sensationalist boilerplate language that often doesn’t mean much after critical review. First, most of the Roadless Area (a federal designation) lies in a handful of western states, and half of that probably would not be considered as forests, at least from a visual standpoint. Not that unforested lands haven’t ecological and other values. They do. However, if one adopts a forestland ...

Prep Schedule Sept. 21

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Today’s games Girls’ tennis Escanaba at Negaunee, 4 p.m. Gladstone at Ishpeming, 4 p.m. Volleyball Paradise at Hannahville (DH), 5 p.m. Bay College at Muskegon C.C., 6:30 p.m. Soccer Big Bay de Noc at Escanaba Bayside, 5:30 p.m. Escanaba Bayside jayvees at Munising Baptist, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday’s games Soccer Bay Mills Ojibwe Charter at Big Bay de Noc, 4 p.m. Hannahville at Munising Baptist 5 p.m. Volleyball Bay Mills Ojibwe Charter at Big Bay de Noc, 6 p.m. Munising at Rapid River, 6 p.m. Powers North Central at Rock Mid Peninsula, 6 ...