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The Scoop on Charter in Torch Lake Township

November 18, 2011

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Here we are, live blogging from Chris and Sonny’s.  We have orange flyers, we have phone numbers–I called Bill Morand and will know more this afternoon.  But here’s what I know right now.  Charter’s plant is in place and ready to go.  There are regulatory issues to deal with, but sometime in the next month […]

Best of a bad lot

November 16, 2011

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The theme seems to be miscreants and fever dreams.

The fog of war

November 12, 2011

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Over coffee at the Torch Lake Market and on the front page of the Elk Rapids News and on his daughter's Facebook page the word was out. Sonny Szejbach was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

The stammering historian

October 23, 2011

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I was over at the Eastport Market the other night buying treats for the Duo and BBQ ribs for my own supper when I ran into a neighbor. We talked about dogs and the economy and raising children. She told me two really good stories about secret siblings lost and found in her family tree. I told her a story about one of the grandchildren of one of my Civil War veterans. We scanned the shelves of rental DVDs, hoping to find something almost as interesting as real life.

Cobbling up stone guest houses

October 19, 2011

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There I was at the library in the Island House, signing up to use the Free WiFi–which I do three or four days a week out of sheer desperation–when Jackie Weber accosted me. “You should come to the stone house workshop,” she said. I was dubious, but Jackie is persuasive, so I presented myself at […]

What to do in a fire

October 18, 2011

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The Elk Rapids Fire Department had an open house on Saturday, and promised exciting demonstrations. A kitchen fire. An escape from a smoke-filled house. Sirens. Off I went. There was a tremendous lot to see and do, and I did it all, but I thought you might be most interested to see for yourself what […]