By Scott SullivanEditorLight ShowClick goes camera, clique goes government, difference being shutter’s open a split second. Light passes through lens optics, body sensors articulate and transmit millions of color data points. When glass closes your mind sets up more art anarchic orders. Clicks are open, let in light; cliques are closed. Therein lies the rub.Saugatuck’s Read More…
I commend publisher Mike Wilcox for keeping Michigan Newspaper Association plaques and awards gathered under past publishers Cheryl and Walt Kaechele in Allegan County News offices. It is good to appreciate others’ work.If you read articles, unless strictly business or political, in his papers it’s clear volunteer battalions make small towns tick. These people give Read More…
Try making a list detailing the good things about getting old. It’s as short as my memory. But as a writer who has lived a long life, the good thing is I have plenty of material to re-run. As I sit in Arbor Springs, I amuse myself by reading some of my previous articles. Hopefully Read More…
I received a phone call a couple days ago about the Marion MI newspaper office having been raided by police. Being the owner, I was a bit perplexed, because I knew of no such raid. The caller, however, was adamant that it had taken place.After calling around I was able to discern that the Marion Read More…
It is common in our culture today to think of Satan as a mythological creature that doesn’t really exist. We tend to think of angels and demons as projections of our own selves, kind of a yin and yang phenomena. Yet, the Scriptures and the Catechism are full of references to these spiritual creatures. Read More…
Old Fashioned Days 2023 was a resounding success! There were lots of events and lots of folks in the Village to enjoy them. The weather behaved itself and the highway department allowed the parade to cross M-66 for the first time in many years. It’s always nice when the powers that be are generous. In Read More…
By Clare County Sheriff John Wilson Welcome to August Clare County. The Clare County Central Dispatch has loaded 20,502 incidents for Clare County as of 31 July 2023. During the months of June and July 2023 there were 6,152 incidents for the county. Your Clare County Deputies have handled 3,902. Other law enforcement including the Read More…
By Maggie ConklinCorn ElevationI can think of few things more delicious than fresh sweet corn, picked that morning, simmered as little as four minutes, but I like seven minutes, and slathered in real butter and salt.Once a year we have nothing but sweet corn from the local farm market for dinner, then another ear for Read More…
By Scott SullivanEditorA Head“Truth has consequences,” my shrink said. “Think a head.”Ahead?“In your head.”Where you’re crazy.“Argumentative,” she jotted.I mean the future, I said. Not what agitates all you see, hear, smell, taste, cogitate …“Don’t forget ‘say’ from your mouth.”You have none in this matter.“What matters?”Ahead, I said. BackAugust 1968, bedroom windows with Indiana woods views, Read More…
I am delighted to see that some of our elected officials have decided to spend at least part of their summer vacation time holding hearings to investigate UFOs – Unidentified Flying Objects. They are hard at work, and I appreciate it since we write their salary and benefits checks. I especially like it, because as long Read More…