Baseball April 25 Bark River-Harris at Superior Central Cancelled due to weather April 27 Superior Central at Gwinn Cancelled due to weather Softball April 25 Munising 29 Stephenson 19 Munising 16 Stephenson 28 April 27 Stephenson at Superior Central Cancelled due to weather North Dickinson at Munising Cancelled due to weather Boys Track and Field April 21 Manistique Kiwanis Invitational Manistique 1. Pickford 184.33 2.
Chuck Nebel and John Carlson (back left and second to back left) took first place in the 2022-23 Munising Smear League end-of-season tournament on Tuesday, April 25. The two-stage round-robin tournament was held at the Barge Inn after the annual banquet with the two league stallworths splitting the $125 first place prize. Carlson and Nebel beat out Kelly and Tim Hall for second place, who won $75 as runners up. Greg Murk and Steve Nebel finished in third, winning $50.
A Northern Michigan University football player is expected to be selected in the NFL Draft this weekend. Jake Witt, an offensive lineman from NMU, is projected to be a day 3 draft selection.
The USS Cleveland encountered an issue during its sidewash-launch when it collided with a tugboat. The incident occurred at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin, where the Freedom-variant of the Littoral Combat Ship are constructed. The U.S. Navy issued a statement confirming that the ship made unintended contact with the supporting tug during the launch, resulting in minor damage to the USS Cleveland above the waterline. No personnel were harmed, and there was no flooding. The Navy spokesperson attributed the incident to a “miscommunication” that caused the tugboat’s proximity to the ship.
Local State Representative Jenn Hill (D-Marquette) voted in favor of Michigan Senate Bill 63, a bipartisan proposal introduced to expand the capacity of sinking funds by public school districts. The vote occurred on Thursday, April 20, passing with a 6145 approval in the house chamber.
A total of 104 cases of blastomycosis (both confirmed and probable) have been identified among employees, contractors, and visitors of the Billerud Paper Mill in Escanaba. Thirteen of these cases have resulted in hospitalization and there has been one previously reported death associated with the outbreak. These numbers are the latest update from Public Health Delta & Menominee Counties (PHDM), the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Representative Jack Bergman (R-Watersmeet) is supporting a new GOP spending bill called the “Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023”, which would raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 billion or until March 2024, whatever happens first.
Local State Senator Ed McBroom was on the losing side of a 29-9 vote that would remove an unpopular and rarely enforced cohabitation law from the books. The Michigan Senate passed a bill on Wednesday, April 19, to remove an unenforced provision from the state’s law that makes it a misdemeanor for unmarried couples to live together.
Some people believe the only reason tuition at Michigan’s state universities has been going up is that state lawmakers have not given the schools enough money to keep tuition down. Is that true? Theoretically, lawmakers could write checks so large that colleges would then be able to bring down tuition.
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore park rangers will return to the library on Monday, May 1 at 10:30am for our final preschool storytime of the school year. Please join us for a Ranger Read Along about patterns and math in spring, play themed activity games, and make a flower craft to take home! This program is open to families with children age 7 and under. This will be our final Talespinner’s Storytime for the school year as we shift our attention to preparing for our Summer Reading Program.
