Munising has not fielded a softball team for a full season since 2019. With the pandemic and lack of numbers, getting a team together for 2023 was the first challenge. Now goals of improvement, sportsmanship and winning are achievable.
More new leadership is coming to the Mustang tennis program, but it comes with familiar faces. Taking over the boys tennis team this Spring will be Munising alumni Noah Ackerman and Chase Nebel.
The Munising Pool League has ended its 202223 season, with the Barge 2 team passing Bear Trap in the final week. “Practically everything came down to the last week: first, second, MVP,” Munising Pool League President Chris Agnello said.
Classifications for Michigan High School Athletic Association elections and postseason tournaments for the 2023-24 school year have been announced, with enrollment breaks for postseason tournaments posted to each sport’s page on the MHSAA Website.
While the Cuffs vs Seniors game is an annual tradition of wacky alumni and community engagement with a basketball motif, plenty of athletic skill and special moments were on display. Family members facing off, non-basketball players making plays and bringing the crowd into the game all added to a historic night of celebration. Altogether, 17 seniors and 27 members of law enforcement from 10 agencies joined in on the fun.
The USDA Forest Service plans to conduct prescribed burns on the Hiawatha and Ottawa National Forests, covering a total of 8,938 acres. The prescribed burns will be carried out on 5 projects, covering 5,373 acres in the East Zone of Hiawatha, 22 projects, covering 3,328 acres in the West Zone of Hiawatha, and 18 projects, covering 237 acres in Ottawa. The burns will be conducted between late April and early fall, subject to weather conditions.
Grace Boyer, a 19-year-old woman now residing in Florida, received a $500 fine, court fees and 90 days probation as part of a plea deal on Wednesday, April 12 in 93rd District Court in the Alger County Courthouse. Exactly one year prior, Boyer lost control of her pick-up truck at excessive speeds and collided into a house on M-28 in downtown Munising. The impact was so strong, it knocked the house off the foundation and was later condemned.
The Munising City Commission has unanimously approved a new zoning ordinance for the municipality at the city commission meeting on Wednesday, April 5. The vote come after the ordinance was tabled at the previous meeting on Monday, March 20, after concerns were brought up with electric vehicle chargers, known as EV chargers.
The all-U.P. awards have also been released for the 2022-23 girls basketball season by the Upper Peninsula Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. Four Alger County players were named to various teams across the region.
Munising - Ruth Ann (Spearman) Revord died surrounded by her family on April 1, 2023, after a brave but private multiyear battle with cancer. Ruth was born on January 20, 1940, in Houghton, Mich.
