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Prep Schedule Sept. 22

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Today’s games Soccer Bay Mills Ojibwe Charter at Big Bay de Noc, 4 p.m. Hannahville at Munising Baptist 5 p.m. Volleyball Bay Mills Ojibwe Charter at Big Bay de Noc, 6 p.m. Munising at Rapid River, 6 p.m. Powers North Central at Rock Mid Peninsula, 6 p.m. Carney-Nadeau at Pembine-Goodman, Wis., 6:30 p.m. Gladstone at Escanaba, 7 p.m. Hannahville at Munising Baptist, 7 p.m. Norway at Superior Central, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday’s games Girls’ tennis Great Northern Conference at Marquette, 10 a.m. Cross country El Harger Invitational at Munising, 4 ...

DNR checks on young walleye with upcoming fall electrofishing surveys

Outdoors

Any night fishing plans in your future this fall? Michigan Department of Natural Resources personnel will be conducting nighttime walleye recruitment surveys from late September to mid-October, so be on the lookout for survey crews when you’re on the water. These surveys are an important ...

Mountains, Molehills, and Motivations

Outdoors

Roadless Rule. It was controversial a quarter century ago and it appears that it remains so. The “environmental” PACs are coming-out in earnest, no doubt hoping to drum-up memberships with sensationalist boilerplate language that often doesn’t mean much after critical review. First, most of the Roadless Area (a federal designation) lies in a handful of western states, and half of that probably would not be considered as forests, at least from a visual standpoint. Not that unforested lands haven’t ecological and other values. They do. However, if one adopts a forestland ...

Prep Schedule Sept. 21

Local Sports

Today’s games Girls’ tennis Escanaba at Negaunee, 4 p.m. Gladstone at Ishpeming, 4 p.m. Volleyball Paradise at Hannahville (DH), 5 p.m. Bay College at Muskegon C.C., 6:30 p.m. Soccer Big Bay de Noc at Escanaba Bayside, 5:30 p.m. Escanaba Bayside jayvees at Munising Baptist, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday’s games Soccer Bay Mills Ojibwe Charter at Big Bay de Noc, 4 p.m. Hannahville at Munising Baptist 5 p.m. Volleyball Bay Mills Ojibwe Charter at Big Bay de Noc, 6 p.m. Munising at Rapid River, 6 p.m. Powers North Central at Rock Mid Peninsula, 6 ...

Call for more air quality monitors in the UP

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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

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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 ...