“Please don’t bury me down in the cold, cold ground,” – John Prine Standing there, looking all around me, and seeing nothing but tag alders, I was confronted with the realization that I was probably lost. I say probably because being lost is like that. There is a confusion inherent ...

The morning was cool and the skies still dark when I tried to move quietly out the back door, headed for the garage, my arms loaded down with cameras, keys and a rain jacket. No morning birds singing today, at least not yet. As I drove along the twisting blacktop road, the sun was ...

Upper Peninsula Little Bay de Noc: Walleye fishing was slow. Anglers were having good success when perch fishing, although sorting through small fish was particularly challenging. Anglers were using minnows and worms. Areas around the Kipling boat launch produced fish. Manistique: Salmon ...

“There’s a certain girl I’ve been in love with a long, long time. What’s her name? I can’t tell ‘ya,” — Allen Toussaint There’s a dividing line I know well that cuts across the green space on several of my old topographic maps. It’s not a political boundary, like ...

MARQUETTE — A new website dedicated to the symbiotic relationship between the Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University will be launched with a free public event at 4 p.m. Aug. 18, in Ballroom I of the Northern Center at NMU. The website was created by the Beaumier U.P. Heritage ...

BIG BAY — Outdoors-minded people who think they have exhausted most of their options to hit the trail in Marquette County should, perhaps, think of Powell Township. Coty Sorby, of Big Bay, is the new Powell Township parks and trails manager, a new grant-funded, part-time job that allows him ...