MANISTIQUE — They say records are made to be broken. Not only did Uriah Aili of Manistique beat his own course record here Saturday morning. He shattered it by 41 seconds in the Emerald Chase five-kilometer run. The Bessemer High School graduate covered the 3.1-mile course in 15 minutes, ...
This past winter, with its heavy snowfall, marks the third severe winter in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the past five years and could significantly impact the peninsula’s white-tailed deer population. Wildlife biologists from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources conducted field ...
Ashes (Fraxinus spp.) have never been a large part of the Michigan forest landscape. At most, about three percent of the volume was occupied by a combination of white, black, and green ash. Yet, black ash (F. nigra) was sometimes the only tree species that could grow in wetlands. The elms ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — The Iron Mountain 13-14 All-Stars punched their ticket to the state tournament with a 13-4 win over Gladstone here Friday. Gladstone got on the board first as Jaxdon Quigley drove in two runs in the top of the first inning. Iron Mountain responded in the bottom of the ...
ESCANABA — A pair of drivers claimed their first career feature wins at Escanaba Motor Speedway here Saturday night during the 7th Annual Christian Groleau Memorial Race. The first was in the 600 sprints as Jace Murray rebounded from a tough heat race to pick up the win in feature ...
July 5, 1966 — Ishpeming Woody’s Bar captured the Escanaba Invitational softball championship in a 5-3 triumph over the Escanaba Merchants. Bob Corriveau rapped a two-run homer in the first inning and scored on triple by Tony Derkos in the sixth. July 7, 1966 — Doris Swanson led the ...