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Friday, November 29th,
• Standish Historic Depot, Santa Parade, Lineup at 5:00 pm, Parade 6:00 - 7:00 pm.
Sunday, December 1st,
• Pinconning...
It may have been years or even decades since you thought about how much you earned at your first job. Did you know that you can find out how much you made that first year? Or any year you worked and paid Social Security taxes? Your earnings history is a record of your progress toward your future...
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 easy but delicious recipes for all different kinds of fudge.
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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...
Sarah Trumble is a Michigan Native, originally from the Upper Peninsula. Previously in education, she enjoyed teaching international higher education, overseas and in the U.S., but moved back to Michigan during COVID. Sarah and her family have happily settled back in the region, bringing her two...
Today I really want to encourage you to be happy and positive. I know that is the purpose of this Column, but we need to celebrate the good things in our lives and know that God is at work behind the scenes. I know that things look bad on the world stage, and money is short for most of us; but we...
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Through much of the year, flocks of small birds can be seen swarming over local fields. The flocks are often composed of dozens of birds. They are the Horned Larks which are with us most of the year. These birds rise off the fields to fly just a short distance and land again to search for grains...
On November 14th, members of the Rotary Club of Pinconning & Standish heard a presentation by Brad Mason, Standish City Manager, on efforts to turn a vacant piece of land in Standish into a nature park. When he became City Manager, Mr. Mason put together an application under the Michigan DNR...
5 Years Ago (November 2019)
For the second time since November 2016, when five of the six current members of the Pinconning City Council were elected, a City Manager has resigned. Mayor Gerald Gibson, in his first meeting since being appointed to the position, addressed the vacant Council Seat....