This past Wednesday Iosco County joined other county governments in asking the State of Michigan to declare the Lake Huron shoreline as a disaster area, and personally I think that it was a go…
Well it seems that winter is officially upon us, with mounds of snow to move and icy lanes to travel as we continue our day to day business in northern Michigan. It was just one of those thing…
Every year we take a little time machine trip – in the form of our newspaper archives, not a 1980s DeLorean, unfortunately – to see what was reported in the community 50 years ago. In this wee…
Editor’s note: On Sept. 21, 1897, The New York Sun published what was to become the most widely read letter to a newspaper. It was sent by 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon, who lived with her pare…
As Porky Pig famously said at the end of most Loony Tunes cartoons, “That’s all folks!” If he was in Oscoda this past Sunday he would have perhaps said that phrase to talk about the Oscoda Kmart.
There was a funny photograph floating around the Internet on Sunday depicting Tim Allen as Santa Claus. Allen is of course the famous actor from Michigan who does the Pure Michigan ads, who is…
If you’ve not seen some of the special sections that we’ve had in the newspaper recently you are missing out. I know a lot of readers like to skip to the things they want to read first, whethe…
If you’ve read my column over the years you’ll know that I’ve continually fawned over the vast variety of choices that are available to watch on television these days. Whether you have Netflix…
My cats are good indicators of foul weather or something irregular going on outside of my home, and they were no different Monday morning. Both were running around the house from window to win…
“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door,” is a phrase that is often inaccurately attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, but he didn’t actually say those exact words.
They crop up like mushrooms in the night. They are Halloween stores that fill the vacant storefronts in strip malls all across Michigan and the United States. When they close, they might house…
Some of the best stories that run in the newspaper are stories of local volunteers teaming up and doing something good that helps the community.
This week enforcement of Michigan’s emergency ban on flavored ecigarettes, commonly called “vapes” will begin. The ban, however, is not permanent but could be extended indefinitely. And I pers…
Michigan’s lawmakers are at it again, working hard to limit the ability of the public to know about what they are doing, actions that will lead to less open government in the state and less in…
It’s no secret our region has been in desperate need of closer, more accessible mental health care. There are only five state psychiatric facilities in our state and not one is located in nort…
