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Basura: Naneena Ice Classic payout is more than $300,000

August 12, 2019

“The use of traveling is to regulate the imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” — Samuel Johnson NANEENA, Alaska. — We stopped at this little wide spot in the road. There were two gift shops, with restrooms, soft drinks and some...

Errant motorist temporarily disables gas dispenser in Dorr

August 11, 2019

Billy Fifelski, owner-operator of the Dorr Marathon gas station on 18th Street and 142nd Avenue, said this past Thursday evening a customer accidentally drove into a gasoline dispenser. Fifelski said, "We know this is making it difficult to get gasoline. We are sorry for this inconvenience. We were told it...

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Public invited to next Dorr Library Board meeting Aug. 19

August 11, 2019

Rachel Vote The Dorr Township Library Board appreciates everyone who came out and voted on the library millage last Tuesday, especially all those who voted yes. We are very disappointed that the millage failed and the library does not have a secure funding source to continue operating at the current...

Yes It’s True: I fear ‘The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street’

August 11, 2019

Claude Akins (left) and Jack Weston in a scene from "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." Call me a nervous Nellie if you wish, but I am fearful that Vladimir Putin and his Russian henchmen and henchwomen are winning a high tech cyber war against the U.S. I believe...

Don’t eliminate, but regulate the Internet for safety at home

August 10, 2019

ACHTUNG: This is not a “fair and balanced” article. It is an editorial by the editor. “It can’t happen here. It can’t happen here. I’m telling you my dear, that it can’t happen here.” — Frank Zappa and the Mothers, 1966 Two developments this past week served as a reminder...

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One Small Voice: ICE raids create environment of terror

August 10, 2019

That the president doesn’t see that his ICE raids in Mississippi are separating families the same way his tactics at the southern border did is incredibly disturbing. But it’s not surprising. A zebra doesn’t change its stripes, nor a leopard its spots. A Donald cannot change his pathological tendency to...

Celebration of life for LJ Long, 59, will be Thursday evening

August 10, 2019

“John “LJ” Long, 59, died Tuesday, Aug 6. LJ, son of the late Gilman and Harriet Long, was born on Dec. 16, 1959, in Danville, Vermont. He later served in the Navy as an electrician’s mate aboard the Destroyer U.S.S. Dyess. Most recently, he worked for Schneider Electric for 12...

Mass of Christian Burial Aug. 16 for Celia Mylnarchek Cisler

August 9, 2019

Celia Clara (Mlynarchek) Cisler 88, of Middleville, a 1949 graduate of Wayland High School, died Tuesday morning, Aug. 6. Celia was born November 26, 1930 on the family farm at the corner of 129th Avenue and Patterson Road. She was the 11th of 13 children born to Andrew and Anna...

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Army Bob: Why are so many prejudging our old white men?

August 8, 2019

by Robert M. Traxler When did being a white old man become a bad thing? You have no choice in how or who you are born. So why are folks who worship at the altar of openness and inclusion roundly condemning white men by the group? To prejudge people is...

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Leighton Twp. still experiencing evidence of growing pains

August 8, 2019

It’s been obvious for some time that Leighton Township has been experiencing growth, but some of it brings negative consequences as well. Leighton Township Supervisor Steve Deer Thursday evening told board colleagues there were nine requests for building permits in July for a total of $1.7 million in value. For...

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