Every day in America, according the latest statistics, 63 adolescents die as a result of suicide. Across the nation, communities are coming together to discuss what most folks don’t want to talk about: suicide. Lake Orion is one of those communities. On Feb. 27, for nearly two straight hours parents, students, teachers, clergy, law enforcement […]
It may seem abrupt or too good to be true, but the start of ‘summertime? will be here this weekend. I know it’s been a winter wonderland of about two-point-three accumulative inches of snow this season, but, just like last year, taking that leap forward in time in March don’t seem right. So, I will […]
By Don Rush If newspapers are the cement that binds the members of a community to each other, then social media websites must be the rubber bands that stretch and snap people back home. Case in point is right here – in Lake Orion, Mich. With the help of social media mega-site Facebook, a group […]
So, there I was. All snuggled up, warm and cozy under the blankies, lying in bed reading some cheap pulp fiction (Black Rain, by Graham Brown). It was last Wednesday night, around 8:30. As my eyes scanned the letters before me, I noticed the wind pickup behind me, outside. Soon there after, I heard a […]
As a parent, I think it’s incumbent upon me to make sure the lads, Shamus and Sean, get a well-rounded education. Their public school district takes care of the reading, writing, ‘rymetic, social reprogramming and brainwashing. Their mother makes sure of their manners and other social graces, like personal hygiene and saying things like, ‘please,? […]
Once in a while being the cheapest dad in town (and the meanest) has benefits. Aside from not spoiling the lads Shamus and Sean with tons of electronic crap they’ll forget as soon as the newest and coolest electronic crap hits the streets, it sometimes saves us from broadcast media feeding frenzies. See, I don’t […]
Lest I forget (again, for the 5th time in six weeks), I needed to mention a good deed. Michael White works in our press room in Oxford. On the payday before Christmas he cashed his check at the Oxford Branch of Oxford Bank. Well, seems he was short-changed, by about a quarter. Teller Jennifer C., […]
So, I have received some chilly e-mails in regards to informing the general populace of a free thinkers group forming up here in Northeast Oakland County. For those who missed last week’s gem of a column, there is a group of people starting to meet monthly in Oxford to debate, argue, discuss (openly) issues of […]
Whether folks know it or not, whether they see it or turn away, whether they want to believe it or not, there’s an undercurrent of unrest in North Oakland County. Long known for its lily white, hard-working, apple pie eating, American car driving, church going, I love Mom, the U.S. and Ronald Reagan Republican types […]
Long before it was chic to puff up kids? ego by making sure most get on the honor roll, or making sure all athletic participants get trophies, I was pretty sure I was ‘special.? Well, different. I figured that out early in life. From about 7th grade through high school a black crow used to […]