“Life needs to be like a roller-coaster ride with ups and downs. Otherwise, it’s not exciting.” - N. T. Rama Rao, Jr Feels like the roller coaster just too that big dive and everyone knows the brakes don’t work. In another winter with temperatures going up and down like a kid on a ...

GWINN — Forsyth Township Public Library has provided access to seed packets for the community for over a year now. These seeds not only help get people interested in gardening but help with food security in the area. Steve Finley has worked with Transition Marquette, Queen City Seed ...

After three days of sunny skies, warmer temperatures and consequent melting snow, waking up to see that the blue-gray skies and snow showers had returned felt like a crippling gut punch. The calendar says March is here and wintertime should be thrashing in the final throes of its seasonal ...

EAST LANSING — Winter is always a challenging time for landscape trees in Michigan. One of the most significant and lasting impacts of winter on trees is ice and snow damage. The recent ice storm in southern lower Michigan coated trees with up to half an inch of ice. This amount of ice can ...

“Back and forth, lies unfurl in the eyes, in the eyes, in the eyes of the world,” — Lindsey Buckingham The calendar has slipped under my feet again like a carpet runner on a polished wood floor and out behind me, leaving my shoes up in the air as I sense I am about to take it on the ...

By KRISTI EVANS Northern Michigan University MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University senior Anthony Gonzalez offered his professors a rare excuse for missing the first two weeks of the semester. He was in Nepal, successfully completing the iconic trek to Mount Everest Base Camp. By ...