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2 days ago | 
shorelinemedia.net | Steve Begnoche
I’m proud to be a tree hugger, a lover of nature, an environmentalist. We need to take care of this place we live in. Pretty basic. That’s not say we can’t use the resources; we have to. I have felled my share of trees for firewood. I try to take care with what I cut, where I cut, when I cut and how I cut, both for my personal safety and to minimize harm I might inadvertently do in the firewood collection process.
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6 days ago | 
shorelinemedia.net | Steve Begnoche
VICTORY TWP.
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6 days ago | 
shorelinemedia.net | Steve Begnoche
The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (LRBOI) manage natural features on about 3,000 acres of their own land and also on state and federal public lands ceded by the tribe in 1836 and covered in subsequent consent decrees. Tribal citizens have the right to hunt, fish and gather within those ceded territories.
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1 week ago | 
shorelinemedia.net | Steve Begnoche
VICTORY TWP. – The sea lamprey crew at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Ludington Biological Station will do all it can to complete the control work schedule announced last fall. That was the message of Jenna Tews, station supervisor, during the Lake Michigan Regional Fisheries Workshop Monday at West Shore Community College. The workshop, a streamlined two-hour session put on by Michigan Sea Grant, for many years had been held in late winter over an entire day.
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1 week ago | 
shorelinemedia.net | Steve Begnoche
MANISTEE – Sierra Hull mixed bluegrass nuggets learned playing mandolin as a child with her daddy and sessions in her home area of Tennessee with brand new music that pushes the genre’s boundaries during her two-set concert Friday night at the Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts. Hers was the culminating show of the 2024-2025 West Shore Performing Arts Series. It left the full house smiling broadly.
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2 weeks ago | 
shorelinemedia.net | Max Reinhart
Millions of acres of national forests, including a sizeable portion in Michigan, may be cleared for timber production in a bid to reduce wildfire risk under a new U.S. Department of Agriculture plan. USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins issued a memo Thursday that created an “Emergency Situation Determination” involving 112.6 million acres, or about 59% of all National Forest System lands. The Department of Agriculture couldn’t specify how many acres would be affected in Michigan.
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2 weeks ago | 
shorelinemedia.net | Ian Harrison
TORONTO (AP) — One year after finishing with the worst record in the NBA, the Detroit Pistons are going to the playoffs for the first time since 2018-19. The Pistons punched their postseason ticket with a 117-105 victory over Toronto on Friday night. No NBA team has ever gone from a worse record than Detroit’s 14 wins last season to earning a playoff berth the following year. “It’s a big deal,” first-year Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff said.
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3 weeks ago | 
shorelinemedia.net | Mary Beth Crain
I can’t believe it’s already April. The worst of Old Man Winter’s tantrums are over–well, except for probably one or two feeble attempts to dump a little more snow–and the balmy caresses of spring will soon liberate our hibernating souls. Thinking about April, I’m reminded that April 14 will be the 160th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s death. I’ve always been fascinated by Lincoln, and I actually have in my possession an unusual book that I got at an antique store many years ago.
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3 weeks ago | 
shorelinemedia.net | Emilio Perez Ibarguen
LANSING – In early 2024, the Fremont Regional Digester – located about 30 minutes outside Muskegon – closed its doors for the final time after a years-long dispute with state regulators. Officials from the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy argued that the digester – designed to convert organic matter into gases that are burned to generate electricity – needed to operate under a different permit type to regulate the liquid waste it generated.
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3 weeks ago | 
shorelinemedia.net | Steve Begnoche
A cultural war is being waged by the Trump Administration as it tries to whitewash history, arts and culture. Thus, it put cultural warriors in positions of power at the Kennedy Center. It is making moves to change how the premier Smithsonian Institutions presents its history and exhibits through a move called “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”The moves are part of his and the radical far right’s attack on “woke” – an ill-defined concept.