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Every local beach offers something special

The Copper Country beaches have been popular with locals and tourists alike; out and about soaking in our phenomenal recent sunny weather. The area’s beaches all around have been well visited, and nothing can compare to these local beaches. Warm water, fresh clean air and soft beach sand. Stunning scenery, fresh Lake Superior water and plenty of fantastic destinations to choose from. From Copper Harbor, Great Sands Bay, then down and over to Agate Beach near Toivola. Sometimes it’s a surprisingly difficult decision to decide where to go. Houghton’s Chutes and Ladders beach, ...

Learning to fly fish

Copper Harbor — On Tuesday evening, the Calumet-Keweenaw Sportsmen’s Club and Keweenaw National Historical Park hosted their last joint fishing event of the year at Fort Wilkins Historic State Park. Fishing Discovery: Fly Tying and Fly Fishing was put together to introduce knowledge and skills of fly fishing from the president of the Copper Country chapter of Trout Unlimited, Chris Adams. Adams is a fish biologist who had earned his doctorate from Michigan Tech and currently works as an instructor for the university. In his free time, he runs a fly fishing business and ...

‘Women deserve a day’: Net’n Yet wins fishing tournament

On Saturday, the Finns Bar and Grill hosted the 7th Annual Women’s Fishing Tournament. The event saw 12 boats occupied by 34 women competing for the heaviest load of five lake trout. The tournament had a difficult start for the women with the conditions of the qualifying Superior waters of ...

The beauty of finding the cure in nature

“Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing.” — Pete Seeger In a shadowy and clipped scene that continues to fade with age in my memory, I recall our line of middle-schoolers marching up the sidewalk single file. We had left the big and protective confines of the brick and ...

Meet Michigan’s beach cleaning robot

Michigan has a new helper dedicated to keeping our beaches clean—a roving robot. Thanks to this new technology, named “BeBot,” trash like cigarette butts, food wrappers and plastic will be less common on inland lake beaches and Great Lakes Shorelines. BeBot was developed by Niteko ...

Learning to love strawberry farming

The day that changed about the next five years of our lives started out like any other. Right up until my Mom said to me and my oldest sister that she needed us to try to go sell a few eggs. The goal was a few dollars to buy milk. My mom wanted it for a recipe. We had chickens at this ...