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Call for more air quality monitors in the UP

LANSING – There are more than 40 air quality monitors across Michigan operated by the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, but only two in the Upper Peninsula. And that raises serious public health concerns due to an increasing number of wildfires and the smoke that follows, environmental experts say. “Particulate matter can penetrate deep into lungs, and wildfire smoke exposure is an immediate acute event,” said Samantha Pickering, the public and environmental health policy manager at the Michigan Environmental Council. One is at the Seney National Wildlife ...

North Central wins Homecoming game over Munising

SPALDING — The Friday Night Lights were shining bright for the North Central Jets as senior Jacob Plunger was named Homecoming King and senior McKenzie Walters was crowned Homecoming Queen before the action kicked off. The Jets came away with a 59-8 victory over the Mustangs led by four ...

U.P. Scores

U.P. scores Friday’s games Football 11-player Bark River-Harris 32, Gladstone 14 Manistique 32, West Iron County 6 Petoskey 34, Escanaba 0 Menominee 22, Calumet 8 Kingsford 21, Negaunee 16 Iron Mountain 42, L’Anse 22 Ishpeming Westwood 38, Houghton 26 Hancock 42, Gwinn 0 Charlevoix 57, Sault Ste. Marie 6 Eight-player Powers North Central 59, Munising 8 Ishpeming 38, Crystal Falls Forest Park 22 Felch North Dickinson 46, Calumet Copper Island Academy 12 Gogebic 66, Stephenson 42 Ontonagon 14, Ironwood 8 Engadine 36, Cedarville-DeTour 18 Pickford ...

Eskymos shutout by Northmen

ESCANABA — The Escanaba Eskymos met up with a stingy defense here Friday night as they dropped a 34-0 football decision to the Petoskey Northmen. Esky experienced some difficulty moving the ball on the ground, rushing for just 48 yards against Petoskey’s stout defensive line in this Big ...

U.P. Scores

Thursday’s matches Volleyball Manistique 3, Iron Mountain 0 Kinross Maplewood Baptist 3, Hannahville 1 Hannahville 3, Kinross Maplewood Baptist 2 Superior Central 3, Bark River-Harris 0 Rapid River 3, Carney-Nadeau 2 Felch North Dickinson 3, Powers North Central 1 Lake Linden-Hubbell 3, Wakefield-Marenisco 0 Calumet 3, Crystal Falls Forest Park 1 Negaunee 3, Houghton 0 Kingsford 3, Marquette 0 Ironwood 3, Ontonagon 1 Rudyard 3, St. Ignace 1 Soccer Traverse City West 8, Sault Ste. Marie 0

Young hunter gets his first buck