Glen Young

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 a daily reminder to avoid obsessing on what problems come my way, to recognize the simple pleasures all around me, and to appreciate th...
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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 end all wars. Americans possessing a basic sense of history know how that armistice signalling the end of World War 1, ma...
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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 I recognize the challenges of suggesting or assigning reading, there are just some books that all high school students should read. M...
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Ask any seasoned deer hunter, and they will be happy to share their deer hunting stories from present or past. With bow hunters already afield, and rifle hunters about to take their stands, deer hunting in northern Michigan is again hitting its peak. Thanks to the Tip of the Mitt Quality Deer Man...
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I grew up in a haunted house, at least that's what my friends thought.  My mother kept mannequins in our upstairs room with a bank of windows that face the busy Petoskey street.  For the record, I don’t recall the mannequins, or any ghosts or spirits, visiting me over the many years I lived ...
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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 award-winning band program. Many students take on more than one extracurricular activity.  Some choose athl...
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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 have come to appreciate on a warm summer day. Even if you are not a regular viewer of the latest environmental news, it is hard to miss the report of monarch decline. D...
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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 with other local fans, I find myself more and more ready to cheer my teams. Because I’m a University of Mi...
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Sometimes, when I sit on the porch in the summer and look out at the Round Island Lighthouse, which sits on the other side of the Straits of Mackinac, I imagine what it must have been like to be a lighthouse keeper in the days before RADAR. I am fortunate to wonder, and to be so close to one of t...
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I start to hear it as soon as August hits.  “Going back soon,” my well-meaning neighbors ask. I want to choke them, but resist, and instead reply with something like, “Not that soon, but thanks for asking,” a sarcastic tilt to my head. Like it not, however, school starts soon.  So it�...
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