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Marcellus, MI – January 27, 2025 – The Marcellus Township Wood Memorial Library is excited to announce the receipt of two generous grants that will significantly enhance its ability to serve the community. The library has been awarded $7,359.73 from the Gateway Foundation and $3,000.00 from the Evergreene Foundation. These funds will be used to […]

From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine Humans’ increasingly large footprint across the planet is forcing plants & animals to adapt and is affecting some species’ evolutionary path, such as in the case of up to half of female elephants not growing tusks in heavily poached regions of Africa. Credit: Robin Cafolla, FlickrCC […]

by John Mooy As we head into 2025, I have had conversations with a number of people and we spoke about the idea that we are living during a time when we need good stories.  There just seems to not be enough of them.    A few years back a lady by the name of […]

Iron Lung Ward c. 1955 – Some people with polio whose breathing muscles were paralyzed were placed in large machines called iron lungs. These machines helped them breathe and may have helped them live longer. by Paula Johnson Childhood isn’t what it used to be, and neither are childhood diseases. Maybe, that is why I […]

by Alan Guebertfarmandfoodfile.com My father began retiring long before the sale of our farm’s dairy cows in 1989.    Began is the appropriate word because his exit from dairy farming was “slower than molasses in January,” as he liked to say. Years slow, in fact.    It was politely kickstarted by me in the early-1980s, […]

by Jim Hightowerjimhightower.com The far-right potentates of Christian nationalism not only say they speak to God, but they now claim to speak for God.     They might, however, want to ponder a cartoon I recently saw. It pictured one of these pious flimflammers demanding entry to heaven, bragging that he had been God’s personal messenger […]