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Rep. Annette Glenn, R-Midland, this week helped lead final legislative approval of a K-12 school budget that invests more than ever before in Michigan students.
The school aid measure for the new fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, is expected to be about $17 billion – up roughly 10 percent overall...
Services for military veterans in their home communities will be more flexible and stable because of a new Michigan law initiated by Rep. Annette Glenn.
The new law revises criteria for a county veteran service fund helping local offices across the state deliver services. The plan waives certain “...
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,
My green beans are blooming and it won’t be long before I have fresh beans to pick. Please...
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...
I would like to ask for Prayer for someone. I know all of us either need prayer ourselves or have someone that needs prayer for something they are going through. But I just became aware that Gary Glenn has been fighting cancer for the past three plus years. Gary Glenn was one of our state...
5 Years Ago (June 2016)
On June 26th, at approx. 1:35 p.m., Troopers from the Michigan State Police responded to a fatal traffic collision in Pinconning Twsp. The occupants of the Corvette, Donald and Denise Raber, of Pinconning Township, were prononounced deceased on the scene.
Local artist Donald...
The Kirtland’s Warbler is one of the rarest birds in North America. Very few people have ever seen one. It winters in the Bahamas and breeds almost exclusively in large tracts of young jack pine trees near the AuSable River. In the 1970s it was added to the EPA’s Endangered Species List when less...
On Saturday, June 19th, the last act in this year’s Rotary Saginaw Bay Nature Festival took place along the AuSable River. On a warm, sunny day a group of friends spent the day visiting birding hotspots in Iosco County, carpooling to places like the Foote Site Dam Pond, the Kirtland’s Warbler...
On June 17, 2021, members of the Rotary Club of Pinconning & Standish were treated to a Zoom presentation by Leona Daniels, Region 10 Director for the Michigan Farm Bureau, on her family’s greenhouse operation and plant distribution business in Ithaca, Michigan. Leona was raised on a farm near...