Wendi’s Word: A hectic Mother’s Day week

It’s expected during the spring season plans will change. Those April showers which bring May flowers bring cancellations and postponed events to the outdoor sports. At one time I even put away the pen to fill in my calendar and used pencil. But, I went back to pen when I started using the cancellation/rescheduled stickers […]

Building Brands: The fine line between being persistent and being a pest

At a recent networking meeting, an attendee was speaking about an attorney hosting an informative lunch on trusts the next day. She described him as wonderful, knowledgeable and NOT pushy or persistent — as if one couldn’t be persistent without being pushy. I immediately wondered if she and the rest of the group were thinking […]

Wendi’s Word: A lesson on procrastination

It’s hard to be nine-years-old – which would be the viewpoint from my oldest son, Jonathan. He keeps getting hit with the same hard lesson – it doesn’t pay off to procrastinate. I will take you back to a Sunday afternoon at the beginning of the month. “It’s not fair brother is playing on his […]

Building Brands: Build your brand for growth

Hopefully you’ve all read the great news that View Newspaper Group is growing again! The announcement was made last month by Owner and President Rick Burrough that our group will launch our 22nd newspaper, the St. Clair Area View on Friday, May 9. The free community newspaper will be delivered via the U.S. Postal Service […]

Restoring Trust with Transparency

By Eric Hamp Michigan Press Association President, Publisher & Editor Houghton Lake Resorter/Crawford County Avalanche Freedom of the press is important to those who have chosen to be journalists and serve as the peoples’ watchdogs in America for almost 250 years. Many feel that the First Amendment is in peril. Trust in the media has […]

Letters to the Editor

Too many apartment developments slated for Orion Dear Editor, Per the March 5 edition of The Lake Orion Review, on the front page we learn that the Orion Township Board of Trustees unanimously voted to approve yet another apartment development (“Orion Twp. board accepts settlement in Villages of Lake Orion development”). In the last few […]

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