April 2023

Box Scores

Baseball April 18 Superior Central 0 North Central 10 Superior Central 16 North Central 3 No statistics available April 19 Negaunee 11 Superior Central 0 Negaunee 13 Superior Central 7 No statistics available Softball April 18 Munising 0 Norway 16 Munising 0 Norway 15 No statistics available Boys Track and Field April 17 Superior Dome Invitational Marquette 1. Pickford 94.5 2.
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MSP warns of flooding risks

Recent rapid snowmelt has caused flooding and damage across central and western portions of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Water is affecting roads, bridges, utilities, and other infrastructure. Businesses and homeowners are also reporting damage across the region.
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Prescribed grazing planning

Prescribed Grazing is a management practice utilized by livestock producers in order to control the timing and amount of vegetation harvested in a pasture setting. When carefully implemented, prescribed grazing can increase livestock production, improve wildlife habitat, reduce erosion and conserve water. The goal of prescribed grazing is to balance the available forage on a given pasture with the number of animals using that pasture to maximize the nutritional needs of the livestock while maintaining healthy forage.
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Letters to the Editor

In the recent discussion of the Alger County Commission Resolutions 2023-07 (which have no legal binding), a point was made that mental health was a factor in most of the gun assaults and killings around the country.
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Pure Michigan is pure secrecy

As travel bureaucrats and industry members gather in Grand Rapids for another “Pure Michigan Governor’s Conference On Tourism,” they are keeping a big secret from you. The Michigan Economic Development Corporation, which administers the state’s taxpayer- funded tourism promotion program, works to keep key data involving state tourism away from those who might question Pure Michigan’s effectiveness.
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Tyner receives full ride to Bay

She was presented with the Bay College Board of Trustee’s Elite Scholarship, which covers full tuition and fees as well as course-required text books for the first and second semesters at Bay with an option for a second year if required criteria is maintained. The scholarship is given to just three incoming students and requires a 3.8 cumulative GPA from one of the areas in the Bay College service area of West Alger, West Schoolcraft, Delta and Dickinson Counties.
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STEM night in Munising

There was an electric feel at Munising Middle/High School on Wednesday, April 19. There were also feelings of robotics, physics, body systems and astronomy for the 2023 STEM Science Fair. Over 100 exhibits of science, health and technology were spread out across the school with over 400 people attending and taking part of the event.
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