Vista Challenges Although they’ve thrown in the roof, they haven’t thrown in the towel. After some brief soul-searching, the powers that be in the Vista Theater community have come together with a plan to save and revive this historic venue. There were already plans afoot to make some major structural improvements to ... Continue Reading
Friday Night Lights – OUT!… Changes Downtown… Virtual Events… and a new man at Word
Friday Night Lights - OUT! After fits and starts, the Michigan High School football season is about to... start. Most area teams will be in action with the exception of the Westwood Patriots who have to put off the start of their season while some players recover from injuries. Also, Marquette will not play Gladstone for ... Continue Reading
Liberation, Explanation, and a Farewell
SO HERE'S THE thing... When you're well past your seventieth birthday and you've got one novel in dire need of revision and another half-novel in dire need of completion, you start wondering about how you want to spend your time. On top of that, you start thinking about those two and three week getaways to Florida or ... Continue Reading
Uncle Ducky’s Big Summer, a Union’s Challenge in Dealing with COVID, and a Tiny Gem of a Gallery in Our Midst
DIFFICULT TIMES FOR restaurants and hotels this summer. Not so, apparently, for Uncle Ducky's burgeoning empire in Alger County. "No question, we had the best summer we've ever had," owner Bill Duckwall tells us. And how can that be? "People wanted to be outdoors this summer, they wanted space, they wanted fresh air. ... Continue Reading
NMU Nursing Professor Tests Positive
THERE'S NEWS OUT of NMU that a nursing professor tested positive for COVID last Thursday (eight days ago). This, the day after she had taken a group of nursing students to UPHS for orientation. In an earlier test, she had come up negative for COVID. She apparently led these students on multiple floors of the hospital, ... Continue Reading