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Outdoors

Fishing Report

Inland lakes across the region are producing bluegill, crappie, pike and walleye. Little Bay De Noc: With the colder temperatures, anglers were fishing the Kipling area and north to the Days River. Though there is ice, many areas were not safe for travel, so extreme caution needs to be used. ...

Column: The sweet, calm solitude of winter

“I’m a man of means by no means, king of the road,” – Roger Miller — — — MARQUETTE — If I were to walk down the middle of this windswept blacktop road on a fine day in July, I’d be taking my life into my own hands. The heavy traffic from those summertime travelers ...

Veteran trappers help beginners at workshop

HERMANSVILLE — Once again, the Community Center in Hermansville will be the site of the 15th Annual New Trappers Workshop Saturday, Feb. 1, starting at 8 a.m. and ending approximately 4 p.m. CST. There will be a number of local veteran trappers on hand, all of whom will be willing to share ...

Column: Nature’s mystery lady hides in plain sight

“I love the flower girl, was she reality or just a dream to me,” – Artie Kornfield/Steve Duboff — — — MARQUETTE — The first time I recall seeing her, she was standing alongside an old country road. I had just crossed a cement-railed bridge on a cold afternoon. I was ...

Annual Beginning Trappers Workshop set

HERMANSVILLE — U.P. Trappers of District Three announce the annual Beginning Trappers Workshop will be on Feb. 1 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. CST at the Hermansville Community Center in Hermansville. This event has grown in popularity each year since Rick Arduin came up with the idea about 15 ...

Column: 00Technology and nature

“There’s a woman I long to touch, and I’m missing her so much, but she’s drifting like a satellite,” – Bob Dylan — — — MARQUETTE — I stepped outside the back door to find the treetops glazed in ice, clinking like windchimes as the breezes moved the branches back and ...