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EarthTalk: Bird feeders
You may not be doing birds a favor giving them access to your bird feeder. EarthTalkFrom the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: How has the prevalence of bird feeders in the U.S. affected birds’ evolution? Is putting up a bird feeder good or bad for ecosystems and the planet? —Estelle Louis, Twin […]
Cass Family Clinic continues to expand: Dowagiac campus improvements enhance patient services
A rendering of Cass Family Clinic’s new mobile clinic bus depot, which will serve as the primary hub for Cass Family Clinic’s mobile health units at the Dowagiac campus. Additional parking, mobile clinic bus depot, and on-site laboratory will enhance patient services DOWAGIAC, Mich., July 21, 2026 – Cass Family Clinic is expanding its Dowagiac […]
Mother Nature – once again – shows her ire
Mother Nature got to the old tree in front of Larry Romig’s house before the Village had time to remove it. The tree was one of many natural items that swirled, twirled and came crashing down in Monday’s storms. It seems that every year, the past few years, Marcellus has had to contend with storm […]
Cass County Fair August 2 – 8, 2026: Celebrating 175 Years Through the Decades
Cass County Fairgrounds, 590 North O’Keefe Street, Cassopolis MI 49031Gates open at 8:00am – Exhibits/Concessions open 11:00am – 10:00pmmycasscountyfair.org casscountyfair@gmail.com 269-445-8265 ###
Farm and Food File: -30-
by Alan Guebertfarmandfoodfile.com Journalism has many traditions. One of the oldest is adding “-30-” after the last paragraph of a just-completed story to alert the editor of “the end.” Old-timers say it was adopted from the Western Union’s shorthand for “End of message.” Whatever its origin, -30- is a fitting send-off to my 33 […]
Guest Opinion: Celebrate farmers market week Aug. 2-8
by Rhea Landholm, Center for Rural Affairs Once a week in the summertime, brightly colored 10×10 tents pop up in a corner parking lot in my community. Under each one of those tents is a producer, crafter, or small business owner who has tables of goods for sale. We celebrate these farmers […]
Jim Hightower – America’s #1 Populist: Why Trust High-Tech Billionaires to Save Humanity?
by Jim Hightowerjimhightower.com Here’s an interesting fact: Dinosaurs dominated Earth for 165 million years – and they assumed they always would. Which brings us to… well, us. We bipedal, far-ranging, Homo sapien primates have certainly established our dominance over modern-day Mother Earth. And even though our reign has only lasted about 200,000 years, we […]
The True Book of Mostly Unrelated Stories: Word Salad
by John Mooy I believe it was long ago now that we lived in world of an individual looking at another individual and speaking while the other person listened prior to responding. That seems to be a bit of a rarity today. The term today if I’m not mistake is “word salad,” and it […]
Bits & Pieces: Learning from mistakes
by Paula Johnson Oops! I once had a secretary who said “oops!” whenever she caught herself in a mistake. How gentle that word is. John and I didn’t grow up with “oops,” we grew up with punishment and an “I’m sorry.”. That being said, not all mistakes are as drastic as others. NASA […]
Cal Thomas: Troy Jackson is Graham Platner lite
ORONO, MAINE – MAY 24: Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner and Troy Jackson (R), who is running for Governor of Maine, stand together during a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour stop at the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus on May 24, 2026 in Orono, Maine. Platner is the presumptive Democratic […]
