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…

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…

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…