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Northern Michigan
I’m on my way back from town. My satellite radio is tuned to a news station. It is six days after the election, and the news is crackling with noise from a strife-filled transition. Words of anger and animosity bounce off each other, beneath which attempting to surface are those of a relief …
In the spirit of recent spikes and waves in coronavirus cases, readers of this column might recall that during the school year, I offer services as a substitute teacher in a handful of local school systems. From the first day I stepped foot into a Kalkaska middle school Social Studies class …
The most important lessons we learn often don’t become relevant, or at least we don’t recognize them as relevant, until those teachers have faded into memories and their voices dimmed by time.
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EMPIRE — Rebecca Lessard released her last rehabilitated eagle on South Fox Island about a month ago, piling into a small chartered plane with the caged raptor and her assistant.
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TRAVERSE CITY — Leanza Curtiss, 26, has plans for her future that include a scalpel and a dead body. (Cue the “Law & Order” theme song.)
Donation drive
Versiti Blood Center
Northern Michigan
It was 6:30 a.m. and still dark. Grandpa Helmboldt pointed with his flashlight to a big stump and whispered, “You sit right here. You’re on a small hill between two swamps. The deer cross right through here. Be really quiet and alert. I’ll come back and get you at noon, unless I hear you shoot.”
I learned a lot running for elected office this year. As a statewide university board candidate, I met voters aged 18 to 91. Students, university employees, alumni and others shared their strong views on education.
Reporters can be hypocrites, but not necessarily in the way our online critics suggest.
TRAVERSE CITY — Even though it wasn’t the “aim,” Habitat for Humanity Grand Traverse Region came home a double winner from an annual conference of Michigan Habitat affiliates.
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Northern Michigan
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In a tribute to the active acquisition and dissemination of knowledge, Chaucer describes his Oxford clerk — equivalent to a modern-day undergraduate — by saying, “And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.”
In an effort to clear my mind from the constant drone of the 2020 election cycle, I’ve become an observer of the backyard bird feeder.
I play this weird, little game to help me fall asleep.
TRAVERSE CITY — A community food drive was enough to get Michelle Chouinard and a team of Norte volunteers cranking.
November Toy Drive
Versiti Blood Center
Northern Michigan
It’s two days from the election. I don’t know about you, but I’m anxious as all-get-out, as my grandaddy would have said.
In the current normal which we are existing, it can be difficult to engage with our social networks face to face.
Today’s challenge: Write a column without using the E-word or the C-word.
ALDEN — Levi Holmes received his wish one day this fall.
TRAVERSE CITY — Are cemeteries prowling grounds for restless spirits, or sanctuaries of peace and meditation? The answer seems to be a bit of both.
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Versiti Blood Center
Northern Michigan
History purports to tells us what happened. To the extent that it records objectively verifiable events such as the firing on Fort Sumpter at the beginning of the Civil War, it does just that.
The idea of having a bed and breakfast has always appealed to me.
TRAVERSE CITY — Cliff and Lottie Wagner spent decades of service at what is now the Greilick Outdoor Recreation & Education Center.
TRAVERSE CITY — A woman rolled down the passenger-side window of her car as she crept past the house at the corner of Sixth and Maple streets.
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I’m not great at giving advice but I know wise words when I hear them.
Versiti Blood Center
Northern Michigan
Mom told me the woman who lived in that house had once met the devil. We were headed into town and had just passed a family home along the highway. I was quite young, and Mom was always too open with me.
Maggie Astor’s New York Times article, “A Failed System: What it’s like to vote with a disability during a pandemic” corroborated what I’ve learned from people with disabilities in Michigan.
TRAVERSE CITY — Halloween will be disguised this year in northern Michigan as the pandemic upends spooky night traditions.
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Versiti Blood Center
Northern Michigan
‘In fourteen hundred ninety-two/Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” goes the old jingle introducing the story of how an Italian navigator seeking a new trade route to India in the service of the Spanish monarchy discovered America while proving our world was round.
When I was in school, it was a common English class assignment to write letters to our future selves. I vaguely remember doing it, although the future Ford I wrote the letter to was probably the 25-year-old me, not the 60-something one.
In a weird way, I welcomed the chaos of the first week of school this year.
MAPLE CITY — Ten years later and Rae Dumke’s retirement gift is still making contributions to the world of architecture.
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