A little over two months ago, diners at Independence Township’s Capri Grill got more than dinner. It was near 7:30 in the evening and Brandon Township residents Michael ‘Mick? and Terri Elliott were paying their bill at the Sashabaw Road eatery when the excitement began. ‘I must not have looked right. Mick thought I was […]
I wrote this bit of a slacker-post-holiday Don’t Rush Me column, last Tuesday. Then I erased it (or, more honestly, back spaced over the already typed letters) and decided a different tact. The tact I chose is questioning and then going off the reservation to pose a fantastical situation that will never come to pass […]
With little fanfare or excitement or coverage by any electronic media platform known to man or woman, July waltzed into our lives as Community Newspaper Month. Across these fruited plains community papers, free and paid, with and without news are ‘sposed to stop, and take a bow. It ain’t gonna? happen. Community paper people are […]
I cleaned my desk off the other day and ran across a news item I saved. (I tend to save news items, phone numbers, napkins, doodles — lots of things on the top of my desk, some of which I want to write about, others only to throw away.) News items that catch my eye […]
You may or may not know this, but I was on vacation over the span of two weeks (but for only six days). Always wanted to go to Maine. The opportunity came up, I jumped and the rest is history. I went to Maine. This column is not about what I did on that trip. […]
(Editor’s note: Don Rush did not write a column this week. While the following would not have been accepted as a Letter to the Editor ? the writer was not brave enough to identify herself ? Mr. Rush has adopted the role of ‘sensitive male? and asked that it be printed in his space this […]
I love alliteration almost as I love it when people, of their own volition, take time out of their lives and read what I’ve written. And, I love that almost as much as I do when those some individuals then take more time out of their lives (time they will never get back) and write […]
This column is a little late getting out of the hopper. About two months late. Which can mean one of two things. 1. It’s really gonna? be a gem — something well worth the wait because I’ve thought about it so much, or; 2. It’s really going to suck and be a total waste of […]
A few years back, one of my favorite teachers at Clarkston High School (Larry Mahrle) verified something for me — I don’t communicate clearly. As I sat to write this column, I remember that hot day in August when the phone in my office rang to life. What followed was an ultra-top secret conversation I […]
Two totally unrelated events happened to me this week that got me a-pondering. One of the coolest parts of being ‘the? local newspaper guy (look at my business card if you don’t believe me) is local history. I love hearing, discovering all the neat little things that have had happened to make each of our […]