By Bill Kalmar Guest Columnist Listening to comedian Tim Allen extol the benefits of vacationing in Michigan with the Pure Michigan series of announcements reminded me that it is time to fill in our calendar with some delightful summer trips. The weather is cooperating, gas prices are temporarily down from last year and most of […]
Dear Editor, In response to a letter published last week and in hopes of calming down people before all facts are known, pole exercise and dancing will not bring down the character of the community. These are not classes for stripping. It may be new to this area, but pole exercising has been around for […]
Ortonville- CreekFest has gone from nearly being cancelled two years ago to an event that is experiencing a rebirth. CreekFest began as an educational half-day event 11 years ago, focusing on the importance of water quality and the care of local waterways including Kearsley Creek. While the event still features educational exhibits, a carnival was […]
Goodrich-Lynne Adams had absolutely no intention of becoming a teacher. Plans change. Now after 43 years and more than 1,000 students she’s pretty satisfied with her change in career. ‘My mother and grandmother were elementary school teachers? actually I was going to be a Methodist minister,? laughed Adams, who on Wednesday retired after more than […]
Dear Editor, I would suggest to all who want to control private property get a fund together and buy the property they want to control. The (pole dance exercising) advertisement on the door might be a bit much, but who are you to decide a person’s career is terrible and should be removed from our […]
Dear Editor, I read the May 20 article, ‘School elections examined? with a mixture of amusement and despair. The school board is considering ‘reducing voting places to one location for all precincts, foregoing elections with unopposed candidates, moving elections to May in odd years and auditing communities? election fees.? Are any of you taxpayers out […]
June 16, 1864’Pvt. Thomas Tucker is on guard duty at a Union headquarters near Chattaooga, Tenn. ‘My the cannons have been roaring out in front a little ways,? wrote Tucker. ‘They are having a big fight out there. Quite a lot of rebel prisnors was brought in this eavning and our regiment is guarding them. […]
I predict this Jottings will compete for the most boring of the thounsands of columns I have written. (But, because it involves my brother-in-law, Ronald Smith of Durand, I feel compelled to write it.) Way back in the late 1940s, Ron and his wife Ethel, had a well drilling business. To find where to dig […]
Dear Editor, I want everyone to know that I am a very proud Lake Orion business owner. This town has come a long way in the past three years. We have more new businesses opening up than I can count. I encourage you to come and enjoy all the wonderful stores and events that Lake […]
Dear Editor, I want to say ‘thank you? to Mrs. Vernier, Mrs. Armstrong, Mrs. Boyer, Mrs Monacelli and all those who provided Paint Creek families with such a wonderful carnival. It was great to see the turnout of students, parents, teachers and Paint Creek alumni last Friday for an evening of good old fun. No […]