Unless you’ve been living under a rock for a few months you’ve undoubtedly heard of the HBO show “Game of Thrones.” For those just coming out from under the rock, the television show is a medi…

I’ve not had cable television for a long time, or I should say, I have not regularly watched cable television for a long time. It was little more than a year ago that I signed up for new Inter…

Over the weekend hundreds of curious creatures deposited themselves in places all over Iosco County, but most notably to Tawas Point. They were not feathered friends heading north again for th…

You really know that it’s spring in Michigan not from the blooming of the daffodils, the greening of lawns, or the presence of robins in gardens. You know it is officially spring in Michigan w…

One of the highlights of my technical drafting, metal shop and industrial arts classes as a high school student was getting to watch a show called Beyond 2000. The show touted technological br…

It’s been a long time since I’ve been in a bustling high school in the morning with hundreds of students milling around, getting stuff from their lockers and heading to their classes before th…

During the two days that techs from Traverse City spent replacing the telephone systems at the Oscoda Press and Iosco County News-Herald last week, the workers all agreed on one thing; the sys…

Hitting a deer while driving a car in northern Michigan, if you’ve driven a car for extended periods of time, is a rite of passage for motorists in this area, unfortunately.

There is a very interesting fad that is taking place on Twitter that some readers may have seen known as the #TrashTag Challenge. People are tasked with going to an area where they live where …

At a time in our democracy when disinformation, half-truths and intentional misdirection are rampant, it cannot be more critical to find reliable methods of maintaining an informed citizenry.

One of the best emails that I get as a newspaper editor are the constant nature shots that we publish in our newspapers from readers of their nature photography. And we have gotten some very g…

Cautious optimism is circulating among legislators, government transparency advocates and journalists this month as the Michigan House, for the third time in the past three sessions, votes on …

Its 2019 and I want to know where all the videos and photographs are of Bigfoot running around the woods, space aliens cruising around in their flying saucers and Loch Ness swimming around Scotland.

The rights of Michiganians and others to walk along the shoreline of Lake Huron and other Great Lakes was secured for now last week after the U.S. Supreme Court declined a request to review a …