Just some bits and pieces about . . . Damage to the boat ramp at the Day Park. Here’s the story I did for the Elk Rapids News, plus some photos of the damage and this update: someone made an attempt to fill in the collapsed section by tossing some stones into it. Probably not […]
My mother made wonderful birthday cakes. My favorite was a chocolate layer cake iced with seven-minute frosting and drizzled with bittersweet chocolate. This concoction made decorative fluffy peaks on top of the cake. The next day a crust would form. I loved that crust. The other day I was reminded of all this when we had brilliant sun, blue skies, […]
If you read An old-fashioned barn-falling back in December, you probably wonder what’s been happening at Mark White’s place. Well, so far so good. The whole story appears in this week’s Elk Rapids News. My copy hasn’t been delivered yet so I don’t know which pictures Tom Vranich used, but here are my favorite updates: Two weeks […]
Last Wednesday Mark White put his beef cattle in the big barn that has stood along US-31 for 90 years and left to do some errands. When he came back an hour later, it looked like a giant had taken a bite out of his barn. The roof had collapsed under a heavy load of […]
The newly-elected Torch Lake Township Board takes office today, November 20. On Tuesday the outgoing Board moved briskly through its last agenda. At the end, the sparse audience applauded, partly because it was a mercifully short meeting, and a lot of us have sat through much longer ones, and partly because there was genuine appreciation […]
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. […]
July 13, 2009
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