UPPER PEninsula • Little Bay De Noc: Walleye anglers reported good to excellent catches with many doing best in the "Narrows" when trolling stick baits in and around 30 feet. Some limit catches were reported. Those fishing the reefs off Kipling reported good catches in 25 to 35 feet. Boat ...

“Sometimes love will bloom in the springtime, then like flowers in summer it will grow, then just fade away in the winter when the cold winds begin to blow,” Joe Tanner Beautiful deep shades of blue continued to permeate my world as the moon, skulking, began to slowly climb out from ...

MARQUETTE — Galileo now shares a residence with Isaac. The Marquette Astronomical Society on Tuesday donated a new telescope, named Galileo, to the Peter White Public Library where the item can be checked out in the same manner a patron would check out a library book. Galileo, an Orion ...

Upper Peninsula • Little Bay De Noc: Had walleye anglers. The bay is starting to ice up but there is no safe ice yet. The only boat launches being used are Kipling and Gladstone Harbor. Walleye anglers reported fair to good catches with most fishing the reefs in the north end. There were ...

“Her eyes shone bright like the pretty lights that shine in the night out of Yerington town,” — Steve Gillette/Tom Campbell Stepping out to the wet street that morning, the capitol was covered in a feathery veil of snowflakes, the lights shining in a yellowish glow up high around the ...

MARQUETTE — Look across a sun-dappled clearing in the state forest not far from Newberry, and you’ll see some low-growing blueberry plants bearing ripe fruit and a sea of bracken ferns, with their leaves turning late-summer yellow. Look a little closer, and you’ll find the forest of ...

Upper Peninsula • Overall: No ice on the inland lakes yet, but temperatures have been steady in the 20’s and night temperatures will continue to be in the 20’s in the extended forecast. • Portage Lake: A few brave anglers had caught some walleye. • Little Bay De Noc: Had walleye ...

MARQUETTE — Appealing photos of elephants and other African wildlife adorned the walls of Northern Michigan University’s Lydia Olson Library Wednesday to complement a presentation on that topic. The focus, however, wasn’t just about lions and other animals. Instead, it was on wildlife ...

“Blue autumn, there’s a rainbow in the sky, but no matter how hard I try, I still see only shades of blue.” — Bobby Goldsboro Not long after the sound of my car door shutting stopped reverberating through the quiet woods, I heard a light tapping sound off to my left as I began ...

Upper Peninsula Ontonagon River: Salmon and brown trout are present in the Middle Branch. Fish were seen north of M-28. Falls River: Near L’Anse also had salmon and brown trout for those targeting them. Little Bay De Noc: Walleye anglers reported fair action with the better catches for ...

EBEN JUNCTION — A plot of land near ET and Tunteri roads has been the focus of students at Superior Central Schools who are getting an idea of the science involved in being a farmer. Students in Tim Bliss’ agriculture and forestry class have been involved in the Healthy Soil Hayfield ...

“Dark and dusty, painted on the sky, misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye. Country roads take me home to the place I belong.” — Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver The morning was damp and chilly with the kind of wet cold that settles into your bones, but a soft, warm layer ...

Upper Peninsula • Keweenaw Bay: Those trolling in shallow waters had nice catches of coho, brown trout and splake. Most were using a flasher/fly combo, spoons or stick baits. Most of the fish were still tight with spawn so look for fish pushing up into the river soon. • Marquette: Had a ...

“Mr. Diamond Sky tell me the truth, will there be any real satisfaction? Diamond Sky, oh well tell me the truth, are my wheels spinning closer to traction?” – Steve Forbert The house stood ghostly white against the black night sky. Long, slender and pointed fingers of bare tree branches ...

Upper Peninsula • Marquette: Had another slow week. Very few boats are going out. Rumor has it those fishing off the end of the breakwall in the Lower Harbor caught lake trout and the odd steelhead. Some boat anglers were going upstream in the Chocolay River. Higher water levels made fishing ...

K.I. SAWYER — A lot of land at K.I. Sawyer — the former U.S. Air Force base — is vacant and not being used to its potential for a variety of reasons. At least one area now has a good purpose: flying saucers, or rather, flying discs. The Sawyer Disc Golf Course recently opened to the ...

MARQUETTE — The name “disc golf” is pretty explanatory, but in case you want more details, the Professional Disc Golf Association has a guide to disc golf on its website at pdga.com. Disc golf is played much like traditional golf, but instead of a ball and clubs, players use a flying ...

HOUGHTON — Though this was indeed the place, it didn’t look now like anywhere that would gather the attention of so many eyes and ears, hearts and minds. The afternoon was gray, with silvery clouds passing over the face of the sun, blocking her warming brilliance. This was the top of a ...

The falling leaves drift by the window, the autumn leaves of red and gold. — Jacques Prevert Having pulled the curtain back, an early morning found me looking sleepily out the bedroom window, past the red-and-pink cobblestone patio and the green grass, overgrown, wet and drooping in the ...

Upper Peninsula • Marquette: All the recent rain has the rivers running high and stained with lots of debris floating downstream which makes fishing very difficult. When they can get out, boat anglers looking to take that last trip were trolling in front of the Chocolay and Carp Rivers, ...