Columns
5 Years Ago (April 2015)
• Pinconning native Caryn (Harrow) Heldt, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Michigan Technological University, received a CAREER Award. The award was presented by the National Science Foundation to young faculty who effectively integreate research and...
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,
This cooking at home all the time make it a real challenge to come up with something new....
Well, we are still in quarantine but have a light at the end of the tunnel. Numbers are flattening out and it looks like we have a cure, not a vaccination but a real treatment that really works that includes hydroxychloroquine. Many, if not all of the temporary hospitals were never even filled and...
5 Years Ago (April 2015)
• PHS announced the Drama Club would present “The Wizard of Oz” with Olivia Morand as Dorothy, Brenton Morand as The Scarecrow, Makayla Bauer as The Tin Man, and Hannah Boettcher as The Cowardly Lion.
• Five PHS students competed in Skills USA State Championships in Grand...
You may not know it yet, but I believe a new door has been opened since Easter Sunday. I truly believe we have turned a corner and light is now starting to shine on the world. Yes, we have lost good people and tomorrow is unknown, but God is in control and I think we have had a breakthrough.
I hope...
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 sourdough recipes and also the recipe for the starter. Nancy from...
5 Years Ago (April 2015)
• Tom and Marion Hornacek announced they had signed a purchase agreement for the sale of Pinny Food Center with buyers John Aspinall and Michael Rupp with Aspinall to run the daily operations.
10 Years Ago (April 2010)
• Spartan basketball players Casey Pashak and Lucas...
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 trying to stretch out our food on hand so we don’t have to go to the grocery store....
Well, time pushes on and we are still in quarantine. School has officially been called off for the rest of the year. Stimulus payments are said to be in the works, and we are really getting to know our family members that we are spending so much time with.
Please remember to reach out by phone to...
As the quarantine goes on, I am going to challenge you to do some self examination. We have time now to pray for others, to spend time with our families and get to know them again. We have time to take walks outside to play with our kids, to talk with our spouses, to get to actually know our...







