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The last year has shown how the volatility of global oil markets can hurt American drivers and consumers. Wild swings in fuel prices due to COVID, pipeline shutdowns, and as well as the current conflict in Ukraine, all threaten our energy security on a daily basis. One way to reduce this dependence...
Rep. Annette Glenn, R-Midland, and the Michigan House has approved a historic infrastructure plan that will improve dam safety in the Midland area and across the state.
The $4.8 billion overall infrastructure and COVID-19 relief plan includes major investments designed to prevent the type of...
The Michigan House has approved Rep. Annette Glenn’s plan to help the cottage food industry grow and thrive.
Glenn, R-Midland, has proposed several changes to help the small, single-person businesses typically operated from home kitchens. The legislative package she helps sponsor would increase the...
The Saginaw Bay region is home to one of the most reclusive members of the heron family. Unlike its larger cousins, the Great Blue Heron and Great Egret, this elusive bird stands only about 2 feet tall. With cryptic brown and cream vertical stripes on its neck, it blends in with sedges and cattails...
I remember one specific day in first grade like it was yesterday. It was the day when my teacher saw me hesitate as I started to read aloud to the class. “You can do it,” she told me, as I slowly started speaking. Lo and behold, she was right. I could do it! Her nudge of inspiration changed my life...
Rep. Annette Glenn, R-Midland, said she will continue her fight to provide tax relief to Michigan workers, families and retirees – despite the governor’s veto of a plan recently approved by the Legislature.
Gov. Whitmer rejected a plan that would have provided an estimated $2.5 billion in income...
5 Years Ago (March 2017)
Varsity Girl’s Basketball Spartan Award Winners: Maddy Yanoski, Heart of a Spartan Award; Emily Yanoski, Most Valuable Player; and Lauren Laures, Most Improved Player. All three received certificates naming them Tri-Valley Conference Honorable Mention recipients. Award...
AN ANTIQUE TRACTION ENGINE lumbers down Kaiser Street past the Peoples National Banks during the Pinconning Centennial Parade. These beasts were used in agriculture from around 1850 until the internal combustion engine became reliable and common in the 1920’s, both pulling equipment (like the wagon...
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...
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 hoping someone has a recipe for good, old-fashioned Spice Cake, the kind our moms and...