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5 Years Ago (December 2017)
The Spartan Wrestling Team competed at the Hemlock Invitational Tournament, bringing home a basket of individual medals as well as placing fourth out of thirteen schools competing. Medal winners were: Tristan Dycewicz 1st in weight class 112; Nathan Childs 2nd in weight...
Effective October 2022, you can self-select your sex on your Social Security number (SSN) record.
“The Social Security Administration’s Equity Action Plan includes a commitment to decrease administrative burdens and ensure people who identify as gender diverse or transgender have options in the...
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,
I’m looking for recipes for good and hearty, stick-to-the-ribs kind of Potato Soup...
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...
Each day more and more information is coming out about how important it is to stay positive and be happy about where you are today. It effects your physical health, mental wellbeing and your future. Talking bad about yourself and other, harboring forgiveness and not moving on from past traumatic...
Social Security is here to help millions of people secure their today and tomorrow by providing benefits and financial protection. We continue to protect the integrity of our disability programs by ensuring we make the correct decision on each claim. However, if you disagree with the decision on...
(StatePoint) Health experts say that establishing and maintaining family traditions can boost overall well-being and vitality, especially as we age.
“As children become adults and move out of the house or away, the family traditions that bind us can sometimes get lost in the process,” says Aparna...
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...
We are about to enter the winter season. Most of our summer birds have left and will be gone for many months. And winter birds will soon be arriving, if they haven’t already. One of our most stunning winter visitors is, of course, the Snowy Owl, a bird that leaves its home in the Arctic to head...