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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 some delicious side dishes for Easter dinner. - Teri from Marshall
Linda...
Can we actually know how much God loves us? The Bible tells us that God has only one son, Jesus. Jesus is it, there is no more, only one child only one son. God sent him and he willingly came to earth to live as a man. He had the same trials and pains as we do. Then, after never hurting anyone and...
Students across the country are heading back to in-person learning, after a year or more of remote pandemic learning. As many schools re-open, the demand for extra help in math for students is growing. Supplemental online tutoring is a great option, as many parents struggle to find help for their...
Absent in summer, this small sparrow leaves its northern breeding grounds to go south for the winter where food is available. Males are mostly dark, some almost black, with sharply contrasting white undersides. Females and young birds are brownish gray above and white below. Both sexes have black...
5 Years Ago (March 2017)
Northern Bay County Fund Trivia Night winners were The MetroGnomes, including Eric Sprague, Dustin Wiess, Amy Miles, Cathy Bielski, Connie McGillen, and Mike Stoner.
Fourth Grade Students completed a month long project of hatching 42 chicken eggs. They came out of the...
I listened to a conversation about two people being humanitarians (helping others) and one person’s point of view was they only gave money to their church to help other Christians. The other person pointed out that a true humanitarian or Christian for that matter would be interested in helping all...
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 looking for some recipes for different kinds of cookies made with apples. - Becky from...
Pine Siskins and American Goldfinches are close relatives. They are similar enough in size, shape and color that some people mistake the two when they appear together at bird feeders. Goldfinches are here year-round. Siskins are with us only during the winter. Bright yellow male Goldfinches lose...
On February 24, 2022, members of the Rotary Club of Pinconning & Standish heard a report from Rotarian Marty Schultz on the status of St. Michael’s School in Pinconning. The school was established in 1917 and has operated continuously since then. For most of the school’s first 100 years it was...