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Bits & Pieces: August Trivia
by Paula Johnson Maybe with all this gloomy and rainy weather keeping us from fun activities, this trivia quiz will perk you up a bit. Questions:1. How long is a jiffy? 2. Who became a famous silent Hollywood star after being rescued in WWI? 3. What are leopard’s spots called? 4. Why is the Pentagon […]
Farm and Food File: Howard’s priceless gift of simple giving
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 wood stove. Yellowed Christmas cards, saved through the years and perched like doves in the untrimmed branches, served […]
Jim Hightower – America’s #1 Populist: Greed is Immoral. Healthcare Greed is Abominable
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 profiteers of the private nursing home industry. Of course, many providers deliver honest, truly-caring […]
News from Marcellus Township Wood Memorial Library
“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 Seeing, Smelling, Hearing, and Touching Plants is Good for Our Health by Kathy Willis. Good […]
Contemplation Corner: “The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love . . .
“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, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than […]
Contemplation Corner: “Why Bethlehem?”
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.” Micah 5:2 NASB 95 It is not uncommon to ask […]
Cass County Friend of the Court launches alternative contempt track program to help families
Cassopolis, Michigan, December 16, 2024 – The Cass County Friend of the Court announces the establishment of an Alternative Contempt Track (ACT) program to assist payers of child support to overcome barriers that negatively impact their ability to make consistent child support payments. The ACT program is a voluntary, year-long program that allows a payer […]
Band Notes for the Week of December 16, 2024
Happy Holidays from the Marcellus Middle School Band! It was a holly, jolly musical Monday at Marcellus High School, December 16. The Music Department featured tunes performed by the 6th Grade Beginning Band, Middle School Band, High School Jazz Combo and High School Concert Band. Pictured in seasonal regalia are, left to right, Zoey Fink, […]
Inside the Marcellus Community Schools
by Nanette Pauley, Superintendent The Marcellus Board of Education will soon welcome two new members. In the November 8 election, Matt Asmus and Emily Good won four-year seats, and incumbent Vicki Essex was reelected. Asmus and Good will take their seats in January. Current board members Ed Asmus, Nicki Hackenberg, Joe Tone, and Justin Ware […]
