There was something off about this past Saturday that I could not put my finger one until I opened up Facebook and realized what I was missing. I was reminded with sudden clarity, much like ha…
More than a month ago the Iosco County News-Herald and Oscoda Press staff worked to send out questionnaires to candidates in the upcoming Aug. 4 Primary Election in an effort to better inform …
With the recent historic rainstorms and flooding that have devastated parts of Iosco County, and flooded many areas of the state – combined with the largest pandemic to hit the country in more…
May 12 was almost the perfect spring day, unless you went outside without a jacket on. Things were coming into bloom, the sky was a quality of blue that only the month of May can seem to manag…
Editor’s note: This week’s column contains spoilers for the Netflix show Tiger King. If you plan to watch the show, and don’t want to get a spoiler, do not read this column. Come back later af…
Friday morning there was an interesting voicemail on my work phone from an individual who is staying in an undisclosed condominium in AuSable Township.
I recently heard someone liken the current Covid-19 Pandemic to World War III, and I think it is probably the most apt comparison that has ever been said. And when you think about it, it makes…
We’re all in the same boat, let us steer for a while
Editor’s Note: Jane Briggs-Bunting is a board member and founding president of the Michigan Coalition for Open Government (MiCOG), a tax exempt, Michigan nonprofit corporation founded to promo…
Being informed about a topic is sometimes not easy to do, and I think that is why many spend their time being uninformed, truly uninformed, about a wide variety of topics because it’s the easy…
Often people ask me what they can do to make a difference in our community. There’s one way right now that you can make a real difference: by participating in the 2020 Census.
Readers who may be keen observers of the Iosco County News-Herald and the Oscoda Press may have noticed a subtle change in the newspapers with our inclusion of a new slogan on the nameplate of…
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…
