Young people from area schools will take their final steps as high school students in the next week or so. Graduation is a special time in any youngster’s life because it represents a chapter of their life they will only get to experience once. High school was special because of ...

It was one of the things I learned very early in my journalistic career. I was covering the courts and crime beat at the Mining Gazette in the mid-1970s. One of my chief liaison people in this capacity was the late Gary Beauchamp, who was the undersheriff in the county. Beauchamp wisely ...

It always amuses me to hear the comments from National Football League teams after the annual college football draft. I don’t think I can ever recall a team saying they had a bad draft. Most of the time, the main theme you hear is how the club “knocked it out of the park,” or “we ...

The Detroit Lions have a long, and not very storied history, in the NFL draft. Despite finishing in the lower regions of the standings of the time, the Lions have constantly made picks that have made people scratch their heads. Without going into detail, you only have to look at the 2016 ...

It’s hard to believe that 40 years have gone by since the spring of 1981. I was watching some of the St. Cloud State-Massachusetts NCAA hockey championship game over the weekend when it struck me how fast the years have flown by since. In April of 1981, I was just returning from ...

All the signs are there. The snow banks have all but melted away. I just saw a robin the other day. The Masters golf tournament, a sure sign of spring, is this week. And even the famous “peepers” of WLUC-TV weatherman Karl Bohnak made their appearance just this week. So why don’t I ...