What's in your medicine cabinet? Your parents' medicine cabinet? Unused or expired medication does not belong there and Operation Medicine Cabinet wants to help. Instead of posing a health hazard to others. these prescription or over-the-counter items can be disposed of safely and legally.

Juniper Garden Club program on quilts; Forum on gay and lesbian issues

Air Force Airman Brandon Corbett graduated from basic military training; Ian Wilson has graduated from the Army ROTC Leader Development and Assessment Course; Navy Seamen Lukas McPhall and Holly Fehrenbach recently completed U.S. Navy basic training; Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Dale Dunham recently completed Naval Nuclear Power Training Pipeline; Air Force Tech. Sgt. Lisa Mercer has arrived for duty at RAF Lakenheath, England; Army Pfc. Jordan Shaffer has graduated from the Direct Fire Infantryman One Station Unit Training; Army Pfc. Jordan Shaffer has graduated from the Direct Fire Infantryman One Station Unit Training; Army Lt. Col. Steven Van Riper has deployed to Iraq.

Finding each pumpkin's face, giving it a personality, is Ed Moody's vocation. The Frankfort resident is a master electrician better known each fall as "Pumpkin Ed," seasonal carver of oversized squash.

It will be years before the newly planted trees will reach the size of the ones they are meant to replace, but volunteers feel it is worth the wait. Members of the Old Mission Historical Society, Boy Scout Troops 31 and 34, of Traverse City, and the Old Mission Peninsula Tree Project set 40 maples along Peninsula roads Saturday, as part of the project that began in 1999.

Finding a horse-drawn hearse wasn't as easy as Gaylord Jowett thought it might be when the family of a local horseman requested one last summer.

A new animal rescue group is making a difference one wag at a time. Launched officially in June, HANDDS -- short for Helping Abused, Neglected, Disabled and Displaced Souls -- is dedicated to saving dogs on the verge of being euthanized.