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Please note: The 2025 Marcellus Village Council meetings will be held at 7:00pm in the Village Council Meeting Room, 177 E. Main, Marcellus, on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month. The first meeting in November will be held Wednesday, … [Read more...] about Village of Marcellus Council Proceedings, Regular Meeting, December 3, 2024

 The December 9, 2024, Newberg Township General Meeting was called to order at 7:00pm at the Newberg Township Fire Department. Present: Covey, Blackburn, Harvey, Griffiths, and Duff. Motion made by Covey, supported by Griffiths, to … [Read more...] about Newberg Township December 2024 General Meeting

Supervisor Koshar called the meeting to order at 6:00pm and The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Cass County Under-sheriff, Clint Roach. Roll Call: Koshar, Hess, Mroz, Schick, and Plummer Koshar amended the agenda to add Cass County … [Read more...] about Marcellus Township Regular Board Meeting Minutes – November 19, 2024

Funding accompanies the build-out of enough utility-scale solar and battery storage to power more than 800,000 Michigan households LANSING, Michigan —Today, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) announced … [Read more...] about Renewables Ready Communities Award supports Marcellus Township

From the Editors of E - The Environmental Magazine The federal government recently granted threatened status to monarch butterflies after a decade of petitioning by green groups. Dear EarthTalk: What is the status of the monarch … [Read more...] about EarthTalk®

by John Mooy The other day I received an email from my editor.  The greatest editor in the country managing a small town newspaper.  At any rate in her email, she indicated if we had a Christmas story, we should have it submitted … [Read more...] about The True Book of Mostly Unrelated Stories: Once Upon a Christmas

by Paula Johnson Sometimes as I read information that includes dates, I think about the date in relation to a member of my family (usually deceased at this point in my life). It gives me a sense of time and what things were like for … [Read more...] about Bits & Pieces: Interesting and Unusual

by Alan Guebertfarmandfoodfile.com The Christmas tree was a scrub cedar hacked from the edge of the woods that bordered the farm.   Big-bulbed lights, strung in barber pole fashion, generated almost as much heat as the nearby … [Read more...] about Farm and Food File: Howard’s priceless gift of simple giving

America has endured a long panorama of corporate greed – from the East India Trading Company to the Robber Barons, Gordon Gecko Wall Streeters to Elon Musk. But down at the bottom of raw greediness today, you’ll find the insatiable … [Read more...] about Jim Hightower – America’s #1 Populist: Greed is Immoral. Healthcare Greed is Abominable

“Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.” If you agree with this quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, you won’t want to miss these new nonfiction selections at the library: Good Nature: Why … [Read more...] about News from Marcellus Township Wood Memorial Library

“The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner: “The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love . . .

Pastor Steven Pace    ““But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Too little to be among the clans of Judah, From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long ago, From the days of eternity.” … [Read more...] about Contemplation Corner: “Why Bethlehem?”