(NY) Wall Street Journal - This city has been selling the world Lake Michigan water for decades. It just mixed in a little hops and barley first.

(OH) The Columbus Dispatch - Jack Tibbels built his life and livelihood along the Ohio shore of Lake Erie, offering a marina, a motel and a fleet of six charter boats to people eager to catch walleye and perch.

(OH) Cleveland Plain Dealer - The carbon counters work high in the sky — swiftly, silently and without any discernible sign of exertion.

(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Brian A. Wolf boasted about the shimmering water and the trophy bass he used to catch from Long Lake in central Wisconsin. But since 2005, the lake has undergone a remarkable transformation: It’s essentially gone.

(MI) Detroit Free Press - When people act oddly, they’re sometimes described as having bats in their belfry. Yet if you live in Michigan, one of America’s bat havens, there’s a good chance you really have bats in the belfry, or at least in the attic.

(MN) Minneapolis Star Tribune - Thousands of years of human activity along the Upper Peninsula’s Lake Superior shoreline have come into sharper focus after three years of research.

(MI) The Detroit News - It started in February when Debra Miller, who works as a caregiver, noticed dozens of red welts on the body of a man she cares for in the Griswold Senior Apartments complex.

(IL) Chicago Tribune – For the last two school years, a popular science teacher at Thornridge High School in Dolton has been putting that theory to the test. First he helped students build a biodiesel lab to convert used cooking oil from local restaurants into fuel for diesel-powered cars and trucks. That idea won Sievers and his students a $10,000 cash prize in the national Lexus Eco Challenge and helped spark communitywide interest in environmental issues.

(MI) Detroit Free Press – As many as half a million tiny golden-winged warblers used to make the annual round-trip flight from Latin America to the Midwest.

(MI) Detroit Free Press - One of Michigan’s most successful commercial fishermen is suing the state to try to overcome a decades-old ban on catching walleye in the Great Lakes.