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The Pied-billed Grebe is a small bird with a big voice, a voice described as a whoop, a chortle, a chuckle, or a whinny. Rather than trying to translate the call into English, readers are encouraged to go online and enter “pied-billed grebe call” to hear first-hand what this little bird has to say...
5 Years Ago (July 2017)
St. Michael’s Sixth Annual Garden Walk Prize Winners include: Theresa Lahar, Pinconning Pride Basket; Laura & Dennis Krueger, garden angel and Begicks basket; Theresa Gwizdala, pear tree; Rose Drouse, wishing well and cement leaf sculpture; Sister Naomi Holysko, bird...
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 bought some Cheese Bread at a bakery in Petoskey, but I couldn’t convince the staff to...
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...
Let’s talk about how to pray. First, when you pray remember who you are. Don’t demand, God had adopted you into his family and he is your father/God be respectful. Second, get to know God. Ask him to reveal himself to you. Read the Bible and what Jesus said to help you understand God. Third, know...
5 Years Ago (July 2017)
Kadin Woletz and Sami Kopasz were the winners of new bikes in a Bicycle Give-a-way sponsored by the Sunrise Side Antique Tractor Club. The Give-a-way was held during their Antique Tractor Show at the Arenac County Fairgrounds.
10 Years Ago (July 2012)
A fire destroyed the...
The Saginaw Bay region is home to one of the most reclusive members of the heron family, the American Bittern. With cryptic brown and cream vertical stripes on its neck, it blends in with the cattails in which it hides in marshes. When danger approaches, it freezes with its neck and head pointing...
On June 30, 2022, members of the Rotary Club of Pinconning & Standish heard a presentation on the Bay County Gypsy Moth Suppression Program by Jeremy Lowell, Program Coordinator, and Carter Rogers, Assistant Program Coordinator. Gypsy Moths have officially been renamed “Spongy Moths.” The...
5 Years Ago (July 2017)
Lt. Gov. Calley declared a “state of disaster” for Isabella and Midland counties. Five days later Gov. Rick Snyder instructed Michigan State Police to amend a recent “state of disaster” declaration to include two additional counties in mid-Michigan (Bay and Gladwin) after...
5 Years Ago (July 2017)
Lt. Gov. Calley declared a “state of disaster” for Isabella and Midland counties. Five days later Gov. Rick Snyder instructed Michigan State Police to amend a recent “state of disaster” declaration to include two additional counties in mid-Michigan (Bay and Gladwin) after...