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This rare blackbird requires a specific habitat for breeding—a large cattail marsh with standing water from two to four feet deep. Nayanquing Point State Wildlife Area is a place that fits the bill, and for many years the Yellow-headed Blackbird, generally confined to western North America, has...
5 Years Ago (July 2015)
• The PHS team took 3rd in the state CyberCamp robotics competition at Eastern Michigan University. Team members were Abby Maciag, Justin Dean, Rebecca Hahn, Trevor Sowmick, Carter Albrecht, and Olivia Berger. Teacher advisors were Len Pomaville and Jason Penberthy.
10 Years...
Weather continues to be a challenge as flood conditions have changed to drought. While unwatered lawns have turned brown, the native tall grasses are thriving as they have much deeper roots (up to twelve feet for big blue stem).
Baby animals that were constantly dependent on their mother are now...
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 dessert recipes made with peaches.
Delores from Litchfield
Dave from...
I hope you had an enjoyable 4th of July. I also hope you know the meaning of it, so many of our young adults do not based on interviews. Many think it is a time of cookouts and fireworks, they think it is an event celebrated around the world. It is not.
It is a celebration of the founding of our...
Rep. Annette Glenn, R-Midland, Thursday said she was glad to learn the results of The Henry Ford Medical Center’s clinical trial of the drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID-19 patients, which found the drug cut the number of deaths among already sick patients in half without heart-related side...
One of the most common birds of the country, whose arrivThe most common woodpecker in Michigan is the Northern Flicker, an unusual woodpecker that spends much of its time on the ground rather than in trees as it searches for insects, particularly ants. Formerly called the Yellow-shafted Flicker,...
On June 25, 2020, members of the Rotary Club of Pinconning & Standish held their first in-person meeting since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March. Club members gathered at the gazebo in Pinconning County Park to hear presentations from outgoing club president Tom Boetefuer and...
5 Years Ago (July 2015)
• The Estey Moose Lodge hosted its Annual Bikers Fighting Blindness event, which raised $22,066 for the Foundation Fighting Blindness. A total of 447 people participated in the poker run.
10 Years Ago (July 2010)
• Seven Spartan ball players received Division 2 All State...
On Friday, June 26th, the Rotary Club held its annual “Appreciating Nature Through Art” workshop as part of the club’s nature festival. Fifteen individuals gathered at the Pinconning Community Building to create paintings of a Baltimore Oriole under the direction of Studio 23 staff. Due to the...