In their Up North song “Sirens,” Petoskey’s Michigan Rattlers sing about the hypnotizing effects of winter driving, how the snow–or other winter weather–can be a driver’s undoing if the hands…
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Wherever I go, I’m always on the hunt for history. This need to know though, is just as important when I’m comfortably at home. And what’s great about living in…
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My friends and I sometimes laugh that when there’s nothing left to talk about, how we turn to the weather for conversation. In Michigan of course, particularly Northern Michigan, when…
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On the bulletin board behind my school desk, I have a found note of wishes. Among them is this one: “I wish I’d been more grateful.” This little message is…
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Veteran’s Day is a solemn commemoration in any year, but in 2018 the event carries additional significance. This year marks 100 years since the armistice to end the war to…
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A month into the school year and I have plenty of reason to speak to students about what they are reading. A few even ask sincerely for suggestions, and while…
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Ask any seasoned deer hunter, and you’ll hear about stories of years with deer in abundance, and other tales of years where there were more ghosts than animals. With…
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I grew up in a haunted house. Or so some of my friends thought, on account of the mannequins my mother kept in an upstairs room with a bank of…
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Students at Petoskey High School can enjoy extra-curricular activities a hundred a different ways, but the best way to enjoy those extracurricular’s in a successful way might be through the…
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Shorter days and cooler nights mean many changes are in the air, not the least of which involves the monarch butterflies that we come to appreciate on warm summer days,…
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Whenever Hank Williams, Jr. asks if I’m “ready for some football,” I always answer “yes!” So with each passing day more tinged by the color and scent of autumn, along…
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Sometimes, when I sit on the summer front porch and look out at the Round Island Lighthouse on the other side of the Straits of Mackinac, I imagine what it…
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