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Beckwith Theatre Company Seeks Submissions for 3rd Annual Local Playwrights Festival of 10-Minute Plays
Submissions Now Open Through September 11, 2026. No Entry Fee DEADLINE AHEAD! Get your 10-minute scripts in for Beckwith Theatre Company’s third annual Festival of Local Playwrights. NO ENTRY FEE. The Festival is a celebration of local playwrights that live in SW Michigan and Northern Indiana. Playwrights in Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren […]
Memories from The Marcellus News – July 2 and 4
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The True Book of Mostly Unrelated Stories: I need your help
I need your help. . .It’ll just take a minuteby John Mooy This has been a while ago, but I was reminded of it numerous times since the time when it happened. It was quite early on a Saturday morning when I heard the door open and someone coming up the steps. Turns […]
Farm and Food File: Three honest questions . . .
Three honest questions answers needing three honest answersby Alan Guebertfarmandfoodfile.com In yet another effort to explain the 2025 changes to the Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMOs), a mid-June headline in a widely respected farm newspaper carried this news: “Milk pricing explained: ‘New negative’ is actually a positive.” Astonishing as that reality-defying headline is, […]
Jim Hightower – America’s #1 Populist: How inequality happens
by Jim Hightowerjimhightower.com High-dollar corporate executives and Wall Street bankers keep telling us that it’s lonely at the top. Well, they should try toiling at the bottom of America’s pay scale. The radical rise of inequality in our society is a function of the vast political inequality separating the working class from the power […]
Cal Thomas: And now a word from the other side
by Cal ThomasCalThomas.com President Trump and Vice President Vance spent most of last week trying to convince Americans the “Memo of Understanding” (MOU) with Iran is a good deal for the United States and world peace. That’s not what Iran believes. Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah […]
Earth Talk: Pollution Tracking
Without state-of-the-art pollution tracking technology and communications infrastructure, we don’t stand a chance in reducing pollution. EarthTalk® From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Why is real-time or near-time tracking of pollution and other environmental markers important today and who is leading the charge? – Barry Jenkins, Erie, PA Pollution tracking is […]
News from Marcellus TWP Wood Memorial Library – July 2, 2026
Join us on Friday, July 3rd at the Marcellus Township Library to Celebrate the USA! From 10 AM- 7PM, kids can learn to sign their names in cursive and then sign the Declaration of Independence. Piece together USA-themed puzzles and get a USA temporary tattoo. From 4-7 PM, enjoy Treasures from the Archives as we […]
Contemplation Corner: “Training for service. . .”
“Training for service is not a training to become rich but to become voluntarily poor; not to fulfill ourselves but to empty ourselves; not to conquer God but to surrender to his saving power. All this is very hard to accept in our contemporary world, which tells us about the importance of power and influence. […]
RickWorld Reading Recommendations – July 2, 2026
Hey there, Book Lovers! We are back with our recommended reads for the month of June. As always, if you have a book to recommend, send the title, author’s name and short summary to the editor to include it in next month’s reading list! Sarah Essex recommends: The Lost Family by Jenna Blum. This […]
