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To ensure students’ safety when traveling to and from school, law enforcement officers across Michigan recently performed dedicated patrols as part of a safety initiative looking for drivers illegally passing school buses. In its second year, “Operation Safe Stop” is an enforcement campaign that...
To ensure students’ safety when traveling to and from school, law enforcement officers across Michigan recently performed dedicated patrols as part of a safety initiative looking for drivers illegally passing school buses. In its second year, “Operation Safe Stop” is an enforcement campaign that...
Clearing snow and ice from driveways, sidewalks and parking lots is no small job. You rely on your outdoor power equipment to do the heavy lifting, and it’s important to keep safety in mind. The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI) reminds home and business owners to use snow throwers, often...
A Snowy Owl perches on a field drain to observe his options. 	              --Courtesy Photo
We are about to enter the winter season. Most of our summer birds have left and will be gone for many months. And winter birds will soon be arriving, if they haven’t already. One of our most stunning winter visitors is, of course, the Snowy Owl, a bird that leaves its home in the Arctic to head...
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 am looking for some great recipes for using all the leftovers from Thanksgiving and...
D. H. Lawrence said, “Men fight for Liberty for all and win with great personal loss, their children (brought up easy) let it slip away again, poor fools. Regretfully their grandchildren are once again slaves.” Many of us enable (make life too easy) for our children and grandchildren because we...
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...
Rep. Annette Glenn today said car insurance reforms she helped approve will lead to $400 refunds for each insured vehicle early next year. The refunds for insured drivers are coming from the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association. The association has built up a surplus in large part because of...
What would you do if you were awakened at night by the Emergency Broadcast System on your phone saying there was immediate danger? Would you think about it for a second and then shut it off and go back to sleep? The Bible predicted the time we are in 2000 years ago with great accuracy: rumors of...
A  Black-capped Chickadee.          				              --Courtesy Photo
It is nearly impossible to talk about winter birdfeeders without also talking about one of the commonest birds in Michigan, the Black-capped Chickadee. Present every month of the year, but especially prevalent in winter, this little clown with its black cap, bib, and legs, its white breast and...

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