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Reps. Prestin, Markkanen back year-round coyote hunting
LANSING, Mich. — State Rep. Greg Markkanen was joined by Rep. Dave Prestin in announcing his bill to restore hunters’ rights, allowing them to hunt coyotes year-round. The plan, House Bill 5721, allows an individual who holds a fur harvester’s license to hunt coyotes year-round. The legislation comes in response to the Natural Resources Commission, which regulates state wildlife and management, shortening Michigan’s public coyote hunting season by three months and declaring a stretch from mid-April to mid-July off limits. ...
Three prison sentences obtained in Menominee County
MENOMINEE — Menominee County Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey Rogg recently obtained the ninth, 10th and 11th felony convictions of 2024. They include: • Asher A. McNeil, 41, Menominee, three to five years in prison for attempted threat of terrorism on March 28, 2024. The sentence was handed down May 10 by 41st Circuit Judge Christopher S. Ninomiya. ...
Peshtigo students design and print out houses in seventh grade math
PESHTIGO —In their seventh grade math classes at Peshtigo Middle/High School, students have been working on volume and surface area of multiple shapes. Teacher Trevor Bloch extended his traditional math lessons to have students design their ideal homes, then make models of them with 3D printers. “During class students brought up the evolving three dimensional printer applications. Student dialogue moved into the idea, ‘How big can three dimensional printers be designed?’ Engineers are looking into increasing the scale and applicability of 3D printers,” Bloch explained. ...
Riverside Country Club welcomes all with new restaurant, renovations
MENOMINEE — Taking over Riverside Country Club was a big swing, but it’s nothing new owners Lexi and Kane Rasner couldn’t handle. “For the community, I feel like we just can’t lose this place,” Lexi said. The club will celebrate its grand opening this Saturday with a ribbon cutting at 11:30 a.m. with the Marinette Menominee Area Chamber of Commerce and a golf scramble at noon. ...
UW-Whitewater's Grace Wickman earns All-WIAC honors
WHITEWATER, Wis. — Former Peshtigo High School softball standout Grace Wickman garnered All-Conference laurels from the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference on Thursday. Wickman, a 2021 graduate of Peshtigo and a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, was one of four members of the Warhawk softball team that were selected as All-WIAC for the performances during the 2024 season. Playing third base for UW-Whitewater, Wickman established herself as one of the...
Maroon girls fourth, boys fifth at Kingsford GNC match
IRON MOUNTAIN — The Menominee golf team participated in the Kingsford Great Northern Conference match at Pine Grove Country Club in Iron Mountain. The Lady Maroons finished fourth amid a congested field with a team score of 215. Kingsford (201) edged Marquette (207) by six strokes to take first place, while Escanaba (210) finished five strokes ahead of Menominee for third place. Gladstone was a distant fifth at 283 strokes. ...
Menominee's Komp, Butler collect U.P. Regional championships
GLADSTONE — Menominee’s Nathan Komp and Darrent Butler captured a pair of Regional titles at the MHSAA U.P. Division 1 Region 1 championships in Gladstone on Wednesday. Komp won a thrilling 400-meter dash by clipping Marquette’s Jacob MacPhee by three-tens of a second to finish with a first-place time of 51.53. Meanwhile, Butler topped the high jump with a leap of six feet, two inches, nudging him ahead of Marquette’s...
Marine girls repeat as NEC champions after smacking down Spartans
LUXEMBURG, Wis. — All hail the Queens of the North Eastern Conference. With Josie Smerchek and Chloe Seymour providing the offensive juice, the Marinette girls soccer team vanquished Luxemburg-Casco 6-1 on Tuesday to secure the Marines’ second straight NEC championship. Marinette finishes conference play at 5-1-1 overall. Wrightstown (4-1-1) could clinch a share of the conference title with a win over Fox Valley Lutheran on Thursday, but regardless of the...
Lady Bulldogs erupt in first inning, cruise to victory over Menominee
PESHTIGO — Like a carousel stuck on overdrive, the Peshtigo High School softball team left Menominee spinning in a 16-4, five-inning thumping of the Maroons on Tuesday. Menominee stunned the Lady Bulldogs in the top first inning after a two-RBI single by Savannah Houle helped the Maroons jump out to a 3-0 lead. Peshtigo proceeded to flip Tuesday’s game on its head in its half of the frame, as the...
Cavaliers stun Menominee on wild-pitch walkoff
MARINETTE — The St. Thomas Aquinas Academy Baseball team took a thrilling 11-10 victory over Menominee on Wednesday. Both offenses were clicking, combining to score 21 runs on 19 hits. Menominee led throughout the contest but could not silence STAA’s offense in the latter innings. Both teams scored two runs in the first inning. ...
Hanson's heroics help Marines overcome Wrightstown
MARINETTE — The Marinette High School baseball team won a wild one with Wrightstown at Pedersen Ballpark on Tuesday. The Marines trailed by as many 11 runs before storming back for a 15-14 walk-off victory. On a day in which every Marine batter collected at least one hit, Weston Hanson shined, going 3-for-4 at the plate with a double and five runs batted in. ...
Town hall will focus on youth marijuana/cannabis use
MENOMINEE — Communities that Care (CTC), Public Health Delta Menominee Counties, and the Healthy Youth Coalition (HYC) of Marinette & Menominee Counties, welcome Marinette and Menominee County families to attend a special town hall on youth marijuana/cannabis use at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 22 in the lecture hall at Menominee High School. Light refreshments will be provided, and prize giveaways will also be available for a chance to win. Presentation is recommended for students ages 13 and up and any adults with youth in their...
UWGB Marinette Campus celebrates theatre renovations
MARINETTE — The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Marinette Campus conducted a ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this month to celebrate renovations at the Herbert L. Williams Theatre and the Fine Arts Gallery. Renovations were made possible by $600,000 in support from Marinette County and donors for the “Take A Seat” campaign, who were able to see their engraved seat plaques for the first time at the May 5 event. The ribbon cutting took place at the Herbert L. Williams Theatre, 750 W. Bay Shore St. Guests were...
Area high school sporting events (May 15-16)
Schedule subject to change Today’s eventsGolf STAA, Coleman, Crivitz, Niagara, Gillett, Lena at Hunters Glen Golf Club, 9 a.m. North Eastern Conference championships Marinette vs multiple schools at Brown County Golf Course, Hobart, Wis., 10 a.m. ...
Renaissance at Rennes holds Spring Craft Fair for residents and community
MARINETTE — Ivon Butman, from Menominee, fastened the yarn on her patriotic wall hanging as her son, Bryan, flipped through the family album to show his mother in pictures. One as a young adult in ruby lips and professionally posed. One as an accomplished accordionist. One with a keen interest in traditional folk dancing. “I’m very fortunate to have wonderful children,” Ivon said. ...
Peshtigo kids soar with hands-on learning STEM Shuttle visit
PESHTIGO — One day. Five sessions. Fifty students. The Dream Flight USA STEM Shuttle docked its coach bus at Peshtigo Elementary Learning Center last week to teach groups of 5th and 6th graders about science, technology, engineering and math through hands-on experiments. Jon Kukuk, a Peshtigo School Board member who brought the bus to the area, said the visit was a chance for kids to explore potential careers. ...
Kayela Putnam sets new Stephenson record in pole vault
HARRIS — Stephenson’s Kayela Putnam soared into the history books with a record-smashing performance in the pole vault at the Bark River-Harris track and field invitational on Monday. Putnam established the new Stephenson High School watermark with a vault of nine feet, six inches, breaking the old record set by Debbie Palmer (9’ 2”) in 1998. “Kayela has worked so hard for this, and to think she only began vaulting...
Marinette girls thrash Little Chute
LITTLE CHUTE, Wis. — Offense carried the day as the Marinette girls soccer team obliterated Little Chute 9-1 in North Eastern Conference play on Monday. Marinette improved to 5-1-1 in the NEC and 9-3-1 overall with Monday’s victory. The Marines were at Luxemburg-Casco for their final conference game of the season on Tuesday, where a win would give Marinette its second straight North Eastern Conference championship. ...
Offense goes AWOL in Maroons loss to Oconto
MENOMINEE — For the second straight game, a lack of run support doomed the Menominee High School baseball team, as Oconto posted a 8-0 shutout over the Maroons on Monday at Spies Field. Coming off a 10-0 loss to Escanaba four days prior that saw the Maroons muster only two base hits, Menominee was once again limited to just a pair of base knocks by Blue Devils hurler Riley Susa. ...
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