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Eastern Phoebes usually return to Michigan by March, earlier than other flycatchers and most other small birds. Phoebes are rather plain creatures, with dusty bellies and gray-brown backs and heads. Even so, this plain little bird helped John James Audubon understand the wonder of spring and fall...
Eastern Phoebes usually return to Michigan by March, earlier than other flycatchers and most other small birds. Phoebes are rather plain creatures, with dusty bellies and gray-brown backs and heads. Even so, this plain little bird helped John James Audubon understand the wonder of spring and fall...
On August 10, 2023, members of the Rotary Club of Pinconning & Standish heard a presentation by Grace Ridpath, a Senior at Salem High School in Plymouth, Michigan, on her year abroad in Japan. Grace addressed the club last summer in advance of her departure for Japan to participate in the...
5 Years Ago (August 2018)
The Rotary Club of Pinconning & Standish received reports from the five students it sponsored to attend the June Youth Leadership Camp program at Camp Rotary near Harrison. Three students were from Pinconning High School - Meagan Coutcher, Jenna Szafranski, and Chance...
Thursday, August 17th,
• Rotary Club, Regular Meeting, at CJ’s, Noon.
Tuesday, August 22nd,
• Tuesdays in the Park, Grocholski Family Tradition, Pinconning Bandshell in Doc Letchfield Park, from
7:00 - 8:00 pm, bring a lawn chair.
Saturday, August 19th,
• Pinconning Food Pantry Golf Outing, Green...
Social Security benefits factor into the retirement plan of almost every American worker. If you are covered under Social Security, you should know how much you might receive in future benefits. These monthly payments are likely to be an important part of your retirement income.
We base your...
Lynn Eckerle is the author of the weekly food column The Recipe Exchange along with a blog, Lynn’s Musings From a Deep Well. She loves country cooking, small town living and taking the back roads.
Dear Lynn,
Does anyone have a good, family recipe for Pecan Pie? - Michelle from Battle Creek...
Dr. Paul Dake is semi-retired; moved to the Pinconning area to be near family and is submitting articles for the Journal. Dr. Dake has an Undergraduate degree in Physiology and M.D. degree, both from Michigan State University, the latter awarded in 1978; immediately thereafter, Family Medicine...
I believe all of us have some tendency to procrastinate in us. Especially when it comes to something we really do not want to do. Examples would be exercising, paying bills, having hard conversations with loved ones, etc. There is an old saying: “Bad things happen when good people do nothing.” This...
Once the most common duck in Michigan, the number of American Black Ducks has declined dramatically since the 1800s. In the last 20 years this species has declined by 50%. In the Michigan Breeding Bird Atlas published in 2013, Black Ducks were reported in less than 7% of townships statewide....