“October — the best time to be seeing red. Thank goodness for maple trees!” — Anonymous Maple trees, at least the red, sugar, mountain, and yes even some boxelders are currently showing off all of this year’s popular shades of red, crimson, vermillion.    As predicted, the colors ...

MARQUETTE — Teachers use all kinds of tools and experiences to help their students learn. This year, Mrs. Sharon Parsons, the 3rd-grade teacher at Father Marquette Catholic Academy, has chosen to bring fun new live additions into her class. “Bringing animals into the classroom is a ...

“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.” — Celia Thaxter The lowering angle of the sun remains a subtle reminder the summer-like temperatures are but a brief delay in the true progress of Autumn. It has seemed fall was put off or summer had simply stormed back with plenty ...

Now that the school year has started and students have been thrust back into the monotonous routine that is school, I’ve begun to reflect on my summer and the events that took place during it. I put in some hours at my work, played a lot of tennis, spent a week visiting family in Lombard, IL, ...

NEGAUNEE — Bernie Rivers Memorial Field now has more foliage thanks to several community organizations. Two Red Sunset maple trees and a Greenspire linden tree were planted on Thursday at the field courtesy of the Negaunee Beautification Committee, which received a $2,400 grant from the ...

A former colleague of mine once told me he didn’t watch a movie twice. Why? His thinking was that if he saw it once, that was that. He knew the plot, the spoilers and other things about the film. Seeing it again was not going to enhance that. Watching that movie was in his past, and he was ...