January 2021

Ramblin’ Road: Are flowers blooming in the desert?

January 31, 2021

by Phyllis McCrossin It’s the start of another quiet week. King and I are back at the trailer while the boys are at their father’s for the week. The good news is the “shelter-in-place” order has been lifted for San Diego County. The selfish news is that means the campground...

Hopkins graduate takes 5th in WHAC bowling tourney

January 30, 2021

Brenden Gossman bowling for Concordia University. Hopkins High School graduate Brenden Gossman finished fifth individually in the Wolverine-Hoosier Conference bowling event Saturday at 5 Star Lanes in Sterling Heights. Gossman rolled a 714 series, with games of 234, 246 and 234. His team, Concordia, finished second, as host Lawrence Tech...

Yes It’s True: Gov. Whitmer advanced corporate lying

January 29, 2021

I was more than amused earlier this week when Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was pressed unsuccessfully about the abrupt departure of Robert Gordon, director of the Michigan Department of Health. Whitmer did the customary corporate dance around questions posed by the pesky press, including Channel 8 political reporter Rick Albin. She...

Twenty-plus year Wayland school bus drivers retire

January 29, 2021

Christine Badalamente Teresa Permoda Wayland Union Schools bus drivers Teresa Permoda (right) and Caroline Badalamente retired today, Friday, Jan. 29. Teresa has worked for Wayland schools for 29 years and Caroline for 21 1/2 years.

Alzheimer’s takes 1953 Wayland grad Jack DeVries

January 29, 2021

Jack DeVries, a 1953 graduate of Wayland High School, died Thursday, Jan. 28, after an 18-year battle with Alzheimer's disease. Jack, born in Dorr on July 17, 1935, had a gregarious personality, both a handful and a heartful. A devoted family man: husband, father and grandfather, he was a self-made...

Columns

Army Bob: The new left seems to exclude everyone

January 29, 2021

by Robert M. Traxler I read an article in the Washington Post titled “A Warning from the 1960s Generation” by John B. Judis, who warned today’s crop of leftists not to make the same mistakes that the flower power folks in the 1960/70s made. His point is that if the...

Community Notices

Katie Brinker new director at Hopkins, Dorr libraries

January 28, 2021

Katie Brinker Katie Brinker has been hired as the new director of the Dorr Township and Hopkins District libraries. The founder and managing director of “Parenting by the Book” and former program coordinator at Schoolcraft Library, she and her husband, Malcolm, have a daughter. She started working at the two...

Dorr Twp. to offer virtual meeting option for 1 year

January 28, 2021

Dorr Township Treasurer Jim Martin points to 22nd Street, where reconstruction is nearly complete. The Dorr Township Board voted 4-3 Thursday night to offer citizens an on-line option for attending meetings, at least until Dec. 31. New Trustee Chandler Stanton proposed the move, maintaining that even if the Coronavirus pandemic...

Articles

Hopkins to increase in-person instruction March 8

January 28, 2021

Stephanie Wilson The Hopkins Board of Education Thursday night adopted a plan to increase students’ time the classroom starting March 8 and chose Stephanie Wilson to fill a vacancy. The board approved a revision to its Extended COVID-19 Learning Plan to have high school and junior high students return to...

Columns

One Small Voice: ‘The Big Lie’ prompted insurrection

January 28, 2021

When we were very little, my sisters and I often heard from our parents the expression “honesty is the best policy.” Patty and I heard the expression correctly, but Nancy, the youngest, heard it this way. “Honesty is the best politics.” Maybe her version was the correct one for our...

Month: January 2021