Mom’s Football Clinic open to public

Ladies, put on your (game) faces and leave the high heels at home. The gridiron is calling your name; its sweet siren is softly saying, ‘Mom, come to me. Come see what I am doing with your sons.? The Oxford Football Club is hosting its ‘first annual? Mom’s Football Clinic this coming Tuesday (August 6) […]

Don’t take ‘no? as an answer

In the dating scene, ‘no? means no. When it comes to asking your mortgage provider to work with you on changing your mortgage, it’s a different story. ‘I hear it repeatedly,? says attorney Jim Porritt, Jr., when describing what area residents tell him after first calling their lender. ‘They say, ‘All I hear is no.? […]

Texting equals TEOCAWKI

While I am not saying it’s time to gather your family for the group hug preceding the End of Days, I am prophesying the end of civilization as we know it. Kiss 130,000 years of modern man’s advancement in technology and societal evolution, good-bye. Our time on this ball of rock spinning in the heavens […]

Rush on my son. Rush on.

When I was but a wee lad growing up on the mean, graveled streets of Clarkston, in the ghettos known as Independence Township, my last name was something other kids could easily make fun of. Because we illiterates outside the city proper (which was a village back then) would rather scratch our butts, play in […]

Goodrich Village

Notice of Public Review and Public Hearing Village of Goodrich Parks and Recreation Master Plan 2014-2019 Notice is hereby given that the Village Council for Goodrich will hold a public hearing during their regular meeting, Monday, October 13, 2014 at 7:00 P.M., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, in the Village […]

Ortonville Village

Village of Ortonville Brandon Township Offices 395 Mill Street Ortonville Village Council Meeting September 22, 2014 Synopsis Trustees Present: Skornicka, Baker, Wills, McClerren, Eschmann Absent: Waters, Peters (each with notice) 1) Approved the agenda as presented 2) Approved the Minutes of Village Council Meeting of August 25, 2014 3) Acceptance Items: A. Treasurer’s Report ? […]

It’s always good to know, readers can also write!

You know, you put your heart and soul out there to share with the public and well, I reckon sooner or later somebody is gonna? notice it. Same with writing a column. The way I cipher-it, I’ve pen and typed something close to 1,500 columns — most of them under the column name Don’t Rush […]

You can’t take ‘no? as an answer

In the dating scene, ‘no? means no. When it comes to asking your mortgage provider to work with you on changing your mortgage, it’s a different story. ‘I hear it repeatedly,? says attorney Jim Porritt, Jr., when describing what area residents tell him after first calling their lender. ‘They say, ‘All I hear is no.? […]

Here’s something you don’t see everyday: respect

Because Mr. Don (I’d Rather Be Up North Kayaking Than Sitting Behind My Desk) Rush took off most of last week, here’s a ‘gem? of a column he penned in 2012 (published September 5) about a fast fading social norm . . . respect. From the great wilderness Rush wrote us this note to pass […]

Don’s great adventure into the fashion world (no, for real)

Fillin? in. That’s what I did this past weekend and unexpected, that’s what it was. Why would a fashion maven, world-wide-web communicator type, ask a truly undiscriminating eye to pinch-hit on a fashion blog? I chalk it up to desperate times call for desperate measures. ‘Have fun,? the fashion maven said. ‘Be yourself. Use our […]

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