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, ...

Courtesy photo 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.

Courtesy photo 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 ...

Roger Tourangeau Jr., above photo, shot his bear recently from 50 yards away. The bear weighed 258 pounds dressed. His son, Roger Tourangeau III shot his first bear with a bow from 20 yards away. The bear weighed 110 pounds dressed.