I was cruising back to Oscoda from a trip to Tawas City on Saturday and noticed a bunch of trash bags on the side of the highway in piles. Normally this would be an unwelcome sight, but believ…

I don’t think I’m the only one in the community to say this, but it’s good to see a lot of the events coming back to northern Michigan as COVID-19 subsides. This includes the time-honored AuSa…

For me, there are certain significances that shape a child’s appreciation of the simple, visceral  pleasures of innocence, their mind’s eye for fond memories forged and cemented into their sub…

We get hundreds and hundreds of emails a day at the Oscoda Press. They’re everything from social news that people want to share with us at the paper, to things like new babies, marriage announ…

There is nothing more visceral, yet quite exhaustive, than the good ole’ fashioned “chase.”  That unrelenting high-speed pursuit of our brave hero protagonist after the dastardly antagonist. A…

The Old Arbys fast food restaurant, Family Video, the Pit Stop, the vacant fruit market, the Auto Value building, the Window and Siding Gallery, the Old IGA grocery store, the crumbling Oscoda…

Friday afternoon I added to my sticker collection. I only started the collection a little more than a month ago, and there are only two stickers in the collection, but I’m proud of the little …

I simply love my flip cell phone, but I’ll get to the specifics of this admiration a bit later. Is it me or does everybody frantically scramble and hustle to blindly reach for their cell phone…

With a deadly pandemic, an economic downturn, the climate crisis and an urgent need for racial and economic justice, President Joe Biden already has plenty on his plate. But another cause dema…

The Ramones famously sang about wanting to get sedated, but if any of them were alive to today, they might have changed their opening line of “I Wanna Be Sedated” to “20, 20, 20, 4 hours to go…

I guess I never gave much of a single thought about cashing in my bottle returns at the local grocery store until the world decided to stop spinning on its axis last year. The shutdown and the…

When I first started in the newspaper business back in 2006 the late Publisher Jim Dunn and my then boss, Editor John Morris, thought I was a rube. For those who don’t know what a rube is, the…

It goes without saying that winter is a time to go deep on TV watching. After all, you’re stuck in the house with no other place to go, and the TV is just sitting right there, begging for you …

Irony is ordering an emergency weather radio from eBay, and the day it is supposed to arrive in the mail, it is delayed due to a massive weather event. For Michigan residents, especially in th…