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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 good quick-bread recipes, the one kind without yeast. Cindy from...
ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE in Rhodes from 1931. Front Row (l-r): Bill Carstens, Aldor Carstens, Earl Graves, Irene Klender, ? Whitfield, ? Whitfield, Dorothy Lafrenier, Dewey Nestle, Ruth Armier, Izabell Wizner, Floyd Aspell. Second Row (l-r): Jack Levandoski, Esther Ehlers, Rosie Graves, Anna Mae Aspell...
Snowy Owls came to our area early this winter, many arriving as early as November. Many of these Arctic breeders now regularly spend their winters here. Perhaps they are drawn to the treeless, snow-covered fields that remind them of their summer home in northern Canada. In daytime, they are most...
On March 5, 2020, members of the Rotary Club of Pinconning & Standish heard a presentation by Allen Bauer, Volunteer Coordinator for the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 Census of Population in Bay County. He said his office was authorized to hire up to 592 people to help conduct the count in that...
I listened to a sermon on the importance of faith, but more importantly what you put your faith in and/or on. Let me explain. When I was young, my dad always said, “Buy real-estate, they are not making it any more.” That pretty much worked until 2008, then the real-estate bubble popped. There was...
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 good recipes for meatless dinners to serve during Lent. Sarah from...
Wow there is a lot of negativity on the news at this time in history. If I was retired or sitting at home with nothing to do but watch TV, I would think we were in the tribulation stage of history that the Bible talks about. If I did not know for sure in my heart that God is our creator and in...
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 that feature different kinds of meat cooked with fruit. Dale...
The Robin has been Michigan’s “state bird” since 1931 following a vote of state residents. Nearly 200,000 people voted, many of them schoolchildren. The Robin finished in first place. The selection was not surprising since there may be no other bird that every Michigander has seen. About six...
The Robin has been Michigan’s “state bird” since 1931 following a vote of state residents. Nearly 200,000 people voted, many of them schoolchildren. The Robin finished in first place. The selection was not surprising since there may be no other bird that every Michigander has seen. About six...