If you haven’t inspected your home for the fall and winter heating season yet, now is the time. You don’t want to be out of luck when you go to fire up your furnace on that first cold day. Also, if there are problems and you need to have a furnace technician come [...]

I cannot believe some of the books that are banned by school libraries across the country. This week (9/23 - 9/30) is Banned Book Week. This year marks the 25th anniversary of Banned Book Week.
Here are a few of the books that I was surprised to see on this list. Also, it [...]

Hey, I know this isn’t a sports blog, but the Detroit Tigers make the playoffs an average of once very 15-20 years so this IS big news in Michigan. Yesterday the Tigers clinched a playoff spot with their 11-4 win over the Kansas City Royals.
The last time the Tigers made the playoffs was in [...]

The average price for a gallon of gas in Michigan is down to $2.203 as of today, September 25, 2006. Over the weekend I saw gas as low as $2.14 (in Sturgis). On most of our drive down U.S. 12 over to Clinton gas was going for $2.16.
One month ago gas was as [...]

Cooler breezes are blowing as the seasons are shifting again. Today marks the first day of day of Autumn and we have the temperatures (and in someplaces frost) to go along with it. Where did the summer go?
My wife, son and I went apple picking a week ago at Corey Lake Orchards. [...]

A moose with the thirst for knowledge paid a visit to the campus of Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan Tuesday evening. The moose was believed to be a young bull moose. The young bull moose wandered onto the campus and even knocked out a ground floor window at Mager’s Hall.
Officers managed to [...]

An informal online poll on the homepage of the Sturgis Journal shows Dick DeVos leading Jennifer Granholm 57% to 38% with the remaining 5% of the votes cast as ‘other.’ It is a small sample size (442 total votes as of this morning), but it does tend to show what the residents of one [...]

Speaking of pirates politics, I see that Dick DeVos and current Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm will be squaring off for three televised debates in October. The debates will take place October 2 in Lansing, October 10 in Grand Rapids, and October 16 in Southfield.
It should be interesting to see what comes out of these [...]

Does this have much (if anything?) to do with Michigan? Unless there were privateers trolling the shores of the Great Lakes (you never know) it probably doesn’t. However, it is a Tuesday and we are crawling toward the end of summer on Thursday with nothing much to celebrate.
So, with that being said, surprise [...]

Want to get a jump on the fall color season? Head on up to Michigan’s U.P. and take in the explosion of color that has its peak around the first week of October in the central and western portions of the Upper Peninsula.
An article in The Mining Journal today suggests the last week of [...]