Category: Columns

Welcome Back Kathy for ‘Busy Day Beef Stew’ recipe

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Kathy Hamman Miller, author of the Townbroadcast "Grandma's Recipe Box" column, has returned from the disabled list after successful surgery. We welcome her back "to the same old place that she laughed about." This is a quick, easy and delicious recipe for what I call "Busy Day Beef...
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Ramblin’ Road: I give up Facebook for an old dog

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by Phyllis McCrossin This week I deactivated my Facebook account. No big deal, I’ve done it at least 50 times before; but I think this time it might be for keeps. I found myself spending much too much time on social media. I think my time could better spent doing...
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Army Bob: Reverse racism comments get a free pass

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by Robert M. Traxler An article in the Washington Post quoted a speech by Dr. Aruna Khilanani lecturing at Yale, saying she had dreams about “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way.” “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind,” her lecture, not...
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Everyday Joys: My dread of approaching an empty nest

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EDITOR’S NOTE: I asked Denise Dykstra of Martin if she’d like to write a column for Townbroadcast. This is her first entry, which she already had posted on Facebook: by Denise Dykstra We were at lunch — at lunch! In our favorite restaurant! And my dear friend, the one who...
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Yes It’s True: Joe Miller has been the Everyman Chief

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It would extremely difficult to find a more popular public figure in these parts than the soon-to-be-retired Wayland Fire Chief Joe Miller. Just about everybody likes Joe. Well, evildoers and law breakers probably feel otherwise. Unlike many of his well wishers after the news he's stepping down July 6 after...
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Ranger Rick: What’s the deal about Memorial Day?

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The readers who take exception to what I write about think I am out of touch.  I am out of touch, I don't watch the news every day on all the alphabet soup stations (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC an all the others) and feast my eyes on a major...
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Ramblin’ Road: I guess I’m just a sentimental old fluff

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I cried at work today. Real, honest-to-goodness tears. Thankfully, I was alone. The South Haven High School Class of 2021 paraded through town today with a police escort. I don’t know anyone in the class. It’s been years since my children attended high school. But when I saw the graduates...
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Yes It’s True: Interviewers should just ‘let ’em play’

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Naomi Osaka All this brouhaha about Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka declining to do interviews has brought me back to a conclusion I made a long time ago — the most overrated process in presenting the news or sports indeed is the sometimes rude and often cumbersome media need for...
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One Small Voice: Let’s give history respect it deserves

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“Hey, let’s go find us some monuments and learn us some history!” – utterer unknown. by Lynn Mandaville I don’t know the originator of the above, highly paraphrased line I scrolled past on Facebook recently. The line was offered sarcastically, in response to someone’s rabid complaint about the removal of...
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Army Bob: Should we draft those who avoid serving?

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by Robert M. Traxler It was Memorial Day last Monday, a day to grill out, barbecue, party, spend money at the Memorial Day sales and enjoy the beginning of the summer season. Go to the lake, break out the boat, fish, ski, and race around, eat, drink and be merry,...
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