Covering board meetings (again)

Interesting week. So, here it is the middle of April and as I sit and look out the window Monday morning, I watch the snow fall. I watch as it accumulates on the cars across the street. If it were April 1, I could take Mother Nature’s joke. I ain’t smiling now. * * * […]

Looking for volunteers to help area seniors in need

There is a movement of sorts happening in our community. A movement of neighbors reaching out and helping neighbors; existing organizations working together capitalizing and coordinating strengths to help folks in need. And, while there may be snow on the ground this week, most folks won’t confuse this season of Easter with that of Christmas […]

Responding readers write . . .

Over the past few weeks, I have tried to challenge readers about their roles in the community and this newspapers role in their lives. So, now it’s time to start letting you know what your neighbors are saying. * * * Don, Here’s my uncensored, sensibilities-be-damned take on the whole thing: News consumers?(readers, TV viewers, […]

Responding readers write . . .

Over the past few weeks, I have tried to challenge readers about their roles in the community and this newspapers role in their lives. So, now it’s time to start letting you know what your neighbors are saying. * * * Don, Here’s my uncensored, sensibilities-be-damned take on the whole thing: News consumers?(readers, TV viewers, […]

Responding reader writes of civics, deism

Over the past few weeks, I have tried to challenge readers about their roles in the community and this newspapers role in their lives. So, now it’s time to start letting you know what your neighbors are saying. More soon. * * * Don, It’s a critically interesting question you posed in your column, about […]

State pride shines in new production

So what do you do after years of working in the stodgy, collared shirt and necktie world of high stakes corporate marketing? Globe-trot? Start your own consulting business? Drive around in a Jeep? Enjoy your family? Play harmonica and keyboards in a band? If you are Orion Township resident Allan Nahajewski, 56, the answer is […]

Why are the ‘civi? words important?

Last week I spouted off: Let’s Get Rid Of All Newspapers, my headline screamed. It is an interesting world we live in, and sometimes this small-town (some would say small-minded) newspaperman has to step back and take a breath from all the running I need to do just keep from eating dust. ‘Eating dust,? you […]

I say, let’s get rid of all newspapers

I was watching the TV news magazine 60 Minutes this past Sunday. One of the topics was Mark Twain’s classic American works of literature, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. While it has long been a source of controversy since it was published in the mid 1880s (‘course? language including the use of the dreaded ‘N? […]

‘All adults = role model? and more (I think?)

In the left pocket of all my dress shirts, I carry an Amazing Spider-Man spiral note-pad. Ever the student of Stan Lee and just like Peter Parker, I try to always be prepared for when my ‘Spidey? senses start to tingle. No, that does not mean I have indigestion. And, I do not don tight, […]

This weekend, ‘spring forward? or else!

It may seem abrupt or too good to be true, but the start of ‘summertime? will be here this weekend. It seems a rather stark contrast to this week’s forecast, issued by the National Weather folks out in White Lake. Here’s what I see leading up to springing forward into Daylight Savings Time, Sunday at […]

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