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Atkinson Mills Sportsmen’s Club ¯ Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. The club is located at 55 Sportsmen Club Lane, McVeytown; email atkinsonmillssportsmensclub@gmail.com; online at http://atkinsonmills-sportsmensclub.weebly.com Blue Rock Sportsman Club ¯ Club meetings at 2 p.m. on the fourth Sunday of each month on the gun range, and at 7 p.m. in January and February in the barn. To east end Blue Rock: From Milroy, follow signs to Reeds Gap State Park. Free camping available and kitchen is open during all events except trap shoots. Decatur ...

Brothers seek mountaineering grand slam

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Two brothers who are among Nepal’s most famous Sherpa guides set out on Monday to scale the highest peaks on each of the world’s seven continents, in a sweeping global trek that will take them across both the North and South Poles. Mingma Sherpa and Chhang Dawa Sherpa have already climbed the 14 highest peaks in the world — every one of which is in Asia. Their youngest brother, Tashi Lakpa, who will join on the worldwide adventure, has climbed six of those peaks. “We were the first brothers to climb all 14 highest mountains in the world and now we ...

Wyoming writer in Fly Fishing Hall of Fame

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — There weren’t many kids in the southern Florida neighborhood where Paul Bruun grew up, so about all he did was go fish. Speaking from New York’s Catskill Mountains recently, Bruun recalled the earliest days of being hooked. The longtime Jackson resident, who was reared newspapering, made his remarks while being inducted into the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame. “After piano lessons, and later trombone lessons and football practice, I’d go fishing,” Bruun said at Saturday’s ceremony. The local groundskeepers got to know young Bruun. His lures and flies ...

Trout stocking announced; April 2 is opener

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) has made its 2022 adult trout stocking schedule available using the FishBoatPA mobile app and website (www.fishandboat.com). “The release of our trout stocking schedule is always a welcome reminder that spring is just around the corner,” said Brian Wisner, Director of the PFBC Bureau of Hatcheries. “This schedule is our roadmap for stocking millions of trout into hundreds of waterways across the state before and during the trout season, which is no small task. Anglers can review the schedule to learn which local ...

Bear harvest ranked 5th

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania bear hunters had quite the year in 2021. They took 3,659 bears across last year’s various seasons. That ranks as the state’s fifth-best harvest ever, and the second-largest recorded since 2011. The 2020 bear harvest, for comparison’s sake, was 3,621. The statewide regular bear season accounted for the largest part of the 2021 bear harvest. Hunters took 1,315 bears in that four-day hunt. The extended bear season — which last year for the first time allowed hunters to harvest bears throughout the opening weekend of deer season in some Wildlife ...

Survey favors Saturday deer opener

HARRISBURG — Sixty percent of Pennsylvania deer hunters support a Saturday-after-Thanksgiving start to the firearms deer season, while another 12 percent have no preference between a Saturday or Monday opener, based on survey results presented to the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners at their January meeting. Just 27 percent of hunters oppose a Saturday opener, the survey showed. Pennsylvania in 2019 shifted the opening day of firearms deer season, which for decades began on the Monday after Thanksgiving, to begin the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The past two firearms deer ...