This week’s issue of the Elk Rapids News will be on news-stands and in your mailbox today – unless you’re reading this from Florida or Baja or other points south with warmer weather. Or even Detroit or the UK or Australia, come to think of it. Anyway, there are lots of stories about Torch Lake Township. Some of them have already appeared on Torch Lake Views in abbreviated form, but you can read the full text here:
Hardwater sailors skim across Torch
Ice boaters are not like you and me. On a recent Saturday they were out on Torch Lake, wearing Quick and Dirty Claws and devilish grins.
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Chris Hubble was headed up an icy hill on Essex Road on Monday morning, headed to Dave Ritsema’s dairy farm for his regular pickup, when the milk hauler he was driving began to slide backward . . . .
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A peek inside the Community Services Building
Everyone in the township has been monitoring the progress of the new town hall – dubbed the Community Services Building – but no one with quite as much attention as Supervisor Bob Spencer . . . .
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uphilldowndale
March 7, 2008
Oh boy, the men folk in my family would be out on the ice boats!
Gerry Sell
March 7, 2008
I have a sneaking desire to get out there myself. Julie Richards will be my role model. Maybe next year. I’ve made up my mind that winter is over.