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How else shall I say “I love you” to a place?

January 29, 2009

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Photographer Scott Thomas (Views Infinitum) issued an invitation to a Collective Shoot of hometown landmarks, and we decided Torch Lake Views should participate.  What’s local?  What’s a landmark?  Who knows?  Fortunately, some talented regular contributors agreed to come along for the ride.  45h Parallel, by Katherine Berst If you travel north on US-31 to visit us […]

Appreciating Elva

January 26, 2009

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Elva Cowell has been Torch Lake Township Clerk, President of the Central Lake District Library Board, Membership Chair of the Wilkinson Homestead Historical Society . . . you get the idea. Wherever you go on this side of the County, Elva will be there before you, setting out the agendas, organizing the committees and fluffing […]

Ron McLaughlin died Wednesday morning, and the Township is poorer for it

January 23, 2009

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Ronald K. McLaughlin died on the morning of January 21, 2009, after a long illness. The Eastport Market is in mourning. Ron had been a “regular” for a long time, sometimes coming in more than once a day, always with his daughter and caregiver Jill. He was given to wisecracks, and Jill inherited the tendency. […]

An update on Mark White’s barn-falling

January 9, 2009

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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 […]

Hold a good thought for Twala

January 5, 2009

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[Ed. Update 1-5-09: I am sorry to tell you that Twala Wolfe died on Sunday night. I’ve decided to leave the headline the way it is, for how better to remember a friend and neighbor than by holding a good thought for her?  Update 1-6-09: I’ve just received news that funeral services will be held Saturday, […]

An old-fashioned barn-falling

December 17, 2008

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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 […]

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