Swim across Lake Michigan cut short due to bad weather

August 4, 2023

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Poor conditions forced a 59-year-old Michigan man to quit an attempt to swim across Lake Michigan after just hours in the water. Jim Dreyer, of Grand Haven, entered the lake from Bradford Beach in Milwaukee early Tuesday, MLive reported. He planned to swim 82.5 miles (132.8 kilometers) to Grand Haven City Beach in Michigan. He expected to complete the trip in 60 hours. He managed to swim 10 miles (16 kilometers) on Tuesday before worsening weather conditions forced his crew to pull him from the water. His crew has not said whether he will try ...

Ontonagon County water source confirmed

August 4, 2023

From the Michigan Department of Natural Resources ONTONAGON — While the source of water supplying two residences and an unregulated trailside spigot has been confirmed in Ontonagon County’s Greenland Township, the search for a safe, viable and affordable water supply continues, the ...

August brings birds and berries

August 4, 2023

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.” —Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting Red suns at noon have begun appearing as the winds from the west have shifted yet again to bring the smoke ...

Energy savings the goal of SWP solar program

July 28, 2023

MARQUETTE — The Superior Watershed Partnership Energy and Climate Office has announced the 25th low-income family solar project completed in the Upper Peninsula since the program began in 2019. This latest project is also the first SWP low-income solar project completed in the city of ...

Outdoors North

July 28, 2023

In this part of the world, along this secluded riverbank under a canopy of mixed firs, spruces and hardwoods, there are no doubt countless times of peace, stillness and resounding quiet. But this, was not one of them. The skies poured down a tremendous amount of rain in a short period of ...

Superiorland gone fishin’

July 28, 2023

Little Bay de Noc: Walleye anglers reported fair to good fishing at black bottom, as well as the Escanaba River. Trolling crawler harnesses along the bottom produced good eater-sized walleye. A few perch were harvested. Big Bay de Noc: Smallmouth bass fishing improved. Drop shot rigs and tube ...