MARQUETTE — “Stop and smell the roses, baby I can’t hardly see,” – Steve Forbert
There’s a smell to the air in the springtime that makes me dizzy with memories. Something about the cold and damp in the winds too that makes me recall with ease many of those childhood times.
I ...
MARQUETTE — “In the still of the night, I held you, held you tight,” – Fred Parris
When I woke up, the room was bathed in a wash of blue-light, television glow. I had fallen asleep on the couch. It was now about 4 o’clock in the morning.
I shut off the box and walked my snack ...
MARQUETTE — “Riding the storm out, waiting for the thaw out,” – Gary Richrath
After a few days of elated joy brought on by the arrival of springtime to these great north woods, nature dug into its bag of tricks and lobbed up at least one more googly ball of splat.
Overnight, ...
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Terence Hirn of Ford River shot a nice 10-pointer opening day with his bow — his second one with bow. Last year he got an eight-pointer on October 3, his birthday.
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Nathan Polley, age 7, of Gladstone got his first buck September 11 at 7:25 a.m. He bagged the 8 point buck at his family’s camp in Iron County.
MARQUETTE — “It’s a million miles to the city from the hills and valleys we know; it’s a million miles to the city and someday we all want to go,” – Tom T. Hall
When I was a little kid, the world we knew was small, but it was big to us.
We seemed to have everything around us ...