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5 Years Ago (November 2018)
After 35 years, Marty Schultz announced that last year would be his final one as the Big Cheese and driving force behind the CheeseTown Races. The event saw many changes over that time. The Pinconning & Linwood Area Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that...
Friday, November 24th,
• Standish Historic Depot, Santa Parade, lineup at 5:00 pm with parade beginning at 6:00 pm
Standing events
Second Monday
• Fraser Township Board Meeting, 7 pm, 1474 N. Mackinaw, Linwood.
• Garfield Township Board Meeting, 6:30 pm, 1138 W. Erickson, Linwood.
• Gibson...
Dr. Paul Dake is semi-retired; moved to the Pinconning area to be near family and is submitting articles for the Journal. Dr. Dake has an Undergraduate degree in Physiology and M.D. degree, both from Michigan State University, the latter awarded in 1978; immediately thereafter, Family Medicine...
Lynn Eckerle is the author of the weekly food column The Recipe Exchange along with a blog, Lynn’s Musings From a Deep Well. She loves country cooking, small town living and taking the back roads.
Dear Lynn,
I’m looking for some traditional Christmas cookie recipes. The ones our moms and...
Almost everyone is familiar
with the noisy, fearless
Blue Jay, a member of
a family of birds that also
includes crows and ravens.
Blue Jays are usually in
charge in the yard, often
chasing other birds away
from birdfeeders. But jays
also sound the alarm when
hawks or cats are nearby.
Their shrill...
5 Years Ago (November 2018)
Today’s world is “slightly different”, shall we say, than
it was back in the 1880’s when St. Johns’s congregation
had it’s formal beginning 130 years ago. Back in 1888,
St. John’s Lutheran Church was the fond desire of just
a few German-speaking immigrant families of...
State Rep. Timmy Beson recently opposed financial disclosure plans in the Legislature, saying they don’t go far enough to deliver badly needed transparency and meet expectations of the people.
Senate Bills 613-616 install some disclosure requirements for Michigan’s state-level elected officials....
Sen. Roger Hauck (R-Mt. Pleasant) issued the following statement recently after the Democratic-led Senate voted to shift local decision making regarding solar and wind farms to the state:
“As if the previous energy bills didn’t go far enough, the Senate gave the OK to this partisan push to strip...
State Sen. Michele Hoitenga (R-Manton) recently released the following statement after voting against extreme Democrat legislation to radically alter Michigan’s energy policy and give Lansing bureaucrats power to override local zoning authorities:
“It has been made clear by the speed at which...
Dr. Paul Dake is semi-retired; moved to the Pinconning area to be near family and is submitting articles for the Journal. Dr. Dake has an Undergraduate degree in Physiology and M.D. degree, both from Michigan State University, the latter awarded in 1978; immediately thereafter, Family Medicine...