Ah, ’tis the season for giving and forgiving. ‘Tis the giving season, and the gimme season. Never in my extended lifetime have I been exposed to so many so-called charitable organizations. I heard the number of new organizations that were started on the East coast since Sandy blew in. It’s huge, but Scrooge that I […]
BRANDON TOWNSHIP REQUESTS FOR PROPOSAL PROJECT: Maintenance of the Charter Township of Brandon Community Park for 2013 AGENCY: Charter Township of Brandon Brandon Township Parks & Recreation 395 Mill Street, P.O. Box 929 Ortonville, MI 48462-0929 Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Web Site: www.brandontownship.us CONTACT: Fred Waybrant, Director of Parks & Recreation. Ph: […]
Concours d’Elegance-fine cars, great toilet There are two Concours d’Elegance attractions each year. One is at Pebble Beach, CA, the second at Oakland University, benefitting MeadowBrook Hall. August 3, 10,000 people paraded the OU grounds viewing 235 automobiles. They came to see the magnificent cars of the world, the rare, the unique. There was a […]
Journey back with me to my 1-room country school days, carrying my sandwich lunches in a pail, up hill both ways in deep snow, etc. The sandwich part came to me this week when I was overcome with a need for a peanut butter and bread and butter pickle sandwich. I was so overcome with […]
There are two Concours d’Elegance attractions each year. One is at Pebble Beach, CA, the second at Oakland University, benefitting MeadowBrook Hall. August 3, 10,000 people paraded the OU grounds viewing 235 automobiles. They came to see the magnificent cars of the world, the rare, the unique. There was a 1932 Helicron (a car with […]
Granddaughter Karen qualified for the Michigan High School Athletic Association Ski Tournament, which was Monday, Feb. 28. She skis with the Brandon-Oxford ski team She reminded me I hadn’t seen her ski in any of the tournaments this year, so I got the hint and went to this one. It wasn’t a hint, it was […]
Editor’s Note: Still full from Thanksgiving dinner and disappointed by Michigan’s loss to Ohio State, Mr. Sherman decided to run a ‘best of? column from Nov. 29, 2006. Enjoy! No dog we’ve ever owned heard us say ‘kennel? when we referred to a dropping off point when we were leaving town for a while. Such […]
Jim Sherman, Sr.’s weekly column, Jim’s Jottings, will return next week!
When you call the office of an elected official (at any level of government) and you get a recording saying, ‘I’m either taking another call or out of the office,? don’t you first assume they are attending a conference in Orlando or the Bahamas? Especially in February? Ms. Granholm, please explain to me again, remembering […]
I’ve often quoted my friend Dick Milliman’s Almanac column. Besides writing the Almanac for his own newspapers, he allows me to quote him. We’ve been friends for several decades. He’s lived much of his life in the Lansing area, was on Gov. George Romney’s staff, ran for Congress once, and is politically conscious. He does […]