Norman James Goodwin was arrested for resisting and obstructing a firefighter and a deputy on Nov. 11. The 71-year-old man lit three separate fires over a nearly 10-mile radius, using diesel fuel as an accelerant and car tires that he found on the side of the road. He was driving around the county in a...
Author: Tory Cooney
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Tower Players bring ‘Medea’ to life
The lights shift, casting a warm glow on the birch trees and log houses of Fort Michilimackinac. A chorus of Ojibwe and French settler women listen attentively to the keening song of a woman betrayed. The year is 1680. The woman is Medea. And the setting is unusual for Euripides’s play, written in the 5th...
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Sparring for a black belt
Beneath dozens of fluttering banners striped in primary colors, over 500 students in white uniforms went through the customary stretches that always marked the beginning of the opening ceremonies for Tae Park’s annual Tae Kwon Do tournament. Last Saturday, over 47 Hillsdale College students, professor’s children, and community members participated in the tournament as students...
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Local man sentenced for brutal assault
Lucas McDaniel was sentenced Oct. 29 for the July assault of his wife. “It was probably one of the worst assaults I’ve seen,” said Public Safety Director Christopher Gutowski. “That’s why the charge is so high. Assault with intent to do great bodily harm is third highest on the scale, after attempted murder and murder.”...
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The beauty of Crumbling Creations
The photo of the naked, frost-encrusted doll disturbed me only slightly less than the photo of the man-made, primary-colored “Salvation Mountain.” The former seemed like something out of really creepy movie involving homicidal, demon-possessed children or a post-apocalyptic wasteland. That’s cool. I can work with that. The latter was a lopsided advertisement aimed at the...