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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 […]
Bits & Pieces: Movie Theater
by Paula Johnson A headline caught my eye a few weeks ago. It was referring to the price of a movie ticket in the 1950s. I used to love movies. I even enjoyed theater on TV, which in the 60s might translate to a movie. There were such programs as Hallmark Playhouse Theater, Masterpiece, Playhouse […]
The True Book of Mostly Unrelated Stories: Dogs and More
by John Mooy By the time you finish reading this article you may well believe that Marcellus provided the idea for the old television program Wild Kingdom brought to you by Mutual of Omaha and hosted by Marlin Perkins. Let me first run through a recollection of dogs that lived both in my neighborhood […]
EarthTalk®
From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Urban wildlife corridors can help cities deal with a wide range of environmental problems including reducing human-animal interactions and mitigating the effects of climate change. Credit: Roddy Scheer. Dear EarthTalk: What are so-called “green corridors” in cities and how do they help mitigate climate change? — Peter […]
News from Marcellus Township Wood Memorial Library
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It’s what makes reading such a wonderful thing. -Daniel Craig. Check out the new fiction shelves for your next novel! This is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer. For fifty years, Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young […]
Contemplation Corner: What does it mean to be “sensitive” to another’s suffering?
“The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity.” -Abraham Joshua Heschel by Pastor Donnie Brooks – Marcellus United Methodist Church What does it mean to be “sensitive” to another’s suffering? If one has to ask, it is very likely that they […]
Enroll and train for the MiCorps Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program
EGLE and MiCorps announce in-person and online training opportunities for volunteer lake monitors The Michigan Clean Water Corps (MiCorps), a network of volunteer monitoring programs that collect and share surface water quality data statewide, is accepting enrollments for the 2025 Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program (CLMP) season. Trainings in 2025 will be offered in‑person in Muskegon and online […]
Letters to the Editor
To the Marcellus Twp. Wood Memorial Library, Thank you for bringing illustrator Jerry DeCaire to Marcellus! His performance was truly MARVELous and very appreciated by all who were present. Also, thanks to Marcellus schools for making sure students and parents knew about it. His talent is SUPER–MAN, it really is. And his clues as […]
Governor Whitmer Proclaims March as Michigan Food and Agriculture Month
Celebration begins with launch of the 2025 Michigan Agriculture magazine at Deeply Rooted Produce in Detroit LANSING, MI – Governor Gretchen Whitmer has proclaimed March as Michigan Food and Agriculture Month, to honor and celebrate Michigan’s farmers, the diversity of products grown and processed in our state, and the partnerships that keep our food and agriculture […]
