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About those rumors . . .

June 27, 2011

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Internet updates, scary wildlife, and crop reports. Real news for a real township.

Grandma’s Beach

June 26, 2011

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We have a request for information about where a family could do a little rockhounding around here. And, um, apparently one of the kids has had a little too much fun already this summer and is sporting a cast, so that factors in too. Got just the place, along with a few Additional Suggestions.

Loading up the ark with digressions

June 22, 2011

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We’ve had a fair amount of rain lately.  Nothing like the flooding and storming and chaos that other areas have had, but still enough to make us wonder if Daugherty Johnson might know how to build an ark.  The mind turns to what might go onto an ark.  Certainly all of us should go, that’s […]

Katherine paints the fence pink

June 20, 2011

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Katherine had to pick her way across the swamp and through the poison ivy, whacking away at the mosquitos as she went, to capture these pretty things, but she has triumphed.

So about this broadband thing–Part I

June 16, 2011

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Rumors are rife along the shores of Lake Michigan. My assignment is to sort them out and tell people what their internet options might be in the near future over here in western Antrim County—most particularly in the orphaned territory that lies along US-31 between Elk Rapids and Charlevoix. (Those of you from Away may […]

Flag Day in northern Michigan

June 14, 2011

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How can you resist a post that's tagged Flag Day and Rural broadband and Derenzy School? You can't.