As summer slowly but surely heats up, folks start cooling their beers down and stocking the fridges. There really is nothing better than a good cold beer after mowing a dry backyard or putting up the first cutting of hay. In the past, I’ve had a good number or readers complain that I seem to [...]
I suppose this column will disappoint some readers and thrill others. Probably all for the wrong reasons. Nevertheless … I really have become disappointed with President Barack Obama. Discouraged and disappointed. I had hoped for and expected a lot when Barack Obama took office following the eight interminable years of George Bush’s administration. (And, no! [...]
BIG RAPIDS — A couple week’s back, Cranker’s Brewery head brewer Adam Mills went to the World Expo of Beer in Frankenmuth with a load of beer and came home with a fistful of medals. That’s good news not only for Mills, but also for the brewery and, in fact, the middle Michigan brewing community. [...]
“What if our brave soldiers were told they couldn’t practice their religion? That they were able to fight for OUR religious freedoms but they couldn’t practice their own?” — U.S. Rep Michelle Bachmann Horrifying. How frightening to think that a soldier or soldiers in the U.S. military could not practice their own religion. Thank [...]
MAKING REPAIRS: A burst water line located in ethe first block of South Michigan Avenue in Big Rapids caused the close of the street for the better part of the work day Tuesday as crews worked not only repairing the water line, but while having the street and sidewalk open and excavated also renovated the [...]
City landmark has been a little bit of everything over the years There are a lot of beer anniversaries to be celebrated during the month of May. Most prominently, American Craft Beer Week falls May 13-19. Breweries, pubs and taverns around the state will be noting the occasion with the introduction of additions to their [...]
Snyder has to tell Bolger, Greimel to ‘just get along’ There comes a point at which people living in the State of Michigan really should stand up and say, “Enough!” But … I doubt that will happen. Folks seem to be ever so accommodating to the politicians in Lansing. Too often, our elected representatives just [...]
With a pleasant seasonal turn to the weather having given most folks around the area a decent hint of summer, I offer a somewhat premature (pre-emptive?) column on preparing for the summer season of beer drinking. Now, if you think this column will include a review of Bud Light Lime Lime-a-Rita and Straw-ber-Rita, you are [...]
Gov. Ferris declares Arbor, Bird Day; police banish gypsies Many folks tend to look at days past as “the good ol’ days.” Actually, there really is nothing new under the sun. Wherever there are people, there will be ferment and conflict. So too the thriving metropolis of Big Rapids. At the end of April and [...]
An article in the Detroit Free Press this past week caught my eye, and left me scratching my head … once again. It seems Michigan’s own Ted Nugent doesn’t appreciate the very successful program being used to attract tourism to this state — the Pure Michigan campaign. Nugent complained Pure Michigan ads have been produced [...]