“Summertime and the living is easy, fishing are jumping and the cotton is high,” – Dubose Heyward, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Over the past few days, autumn has begun to unfurl its final vestiges of colors and kick before its tattered curtain is torn away, and November comes down ...

For more than three decades, Great Lakes fisherman Richard Boda has kept a handwritten logbook of his time on the water — a legacy to the son and daughter who would one day inherit the family business. Jotted in a waterproof notepad each day and transferred to a spiral binder at night, the ...

“Scarecrow on a wooden cross, blackbird in the barn,” — John Mellencamp The first sound I heard after I slipped outside the back door that morning was the croaking squawk of an old raven. He sounded upset about the cold and the snow. I couldn’t blame him. It wasn’t even ...

Ontonagon River: Angling efforts on the river remained extremely low over the past week. Reports suggested that very few fish were being caught. The floating docks in the Ontonagon Marina were removed from the river for the season. Marquette: This past week’s weather was a bit windier, but ...

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. — The pumpkin in Tony Scott's backyard weighs almost as much as a small car. He's been tending to it for months, feeding it fertilizer and covering it with a blanket at night to keep it at a stable temperature. A roll of measuring tape wrapped around the pumpkin gives ...

“But songs of love should not be sung where staying is not planned, and foolish I would climb once more a tree too weak to stand,” – Gordon Lightfoot If you look at his posture, to see him stand, you’d know he either started out with difficulties or developed them somewhere along the ...