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Readers identify young men in photo
Editor's note Historical photo information, provided by readers, for the Feb. 25 image: -- The young men are participating in a scrap drive. On the far left is Louis Culman; third from left is Thomas Haywood; far right is Jack Sheets.
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News from ... 100 Years Ago: 03/04/2013
Woodrow Wilson became President of the United States at 1:37 p.m. this afternoon.
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News from 100 Years Ago: 02/25/2013
n The Traverse City Fly Casting Club will this week plant the first allotment of 9,000 Brook Trout Fry in Bear Creek in Manistee County. This will be the earliest planting which has been supervised by the Club in some years and they are fortunate in
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News from 100 Years Ago: 02/04/2013
A white cow risked its life in front of a Grand Rapids & Indiana train last evening and caused much hard thinking and some strenuous walking through snowdrifts along the bay shore by Officers Gottlieb and Schneider.
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Terry Wooten: Learning from others about MLK
I remember vividly when Martin Luther King Jr.was assassinated. It was the spring of my freshman year at Western Michigan University. I was finishing up my student teaching.
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Lifelines: Life after the world's end
Now that the Mayan calendar has ended, I'll confess I'm weary of all these endings and beginnings. I've lived through too many of them, including growing up during The Cold War when the end was at some stranger's fingertips.
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History Center of Traverse City heads toward deadline
It's been a busy year at the History Center of Traverse City as it heads toward a 2014 self-sufficiency deadline.
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Lifelines: War affects us all
This Christmas don't forget our people serving overseas, and the ones who have come home.
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Battle lines drawn for Election Day and deer season
With Election Day tomorrow and firearms deer season opening ten days later, we'll be experiencing some of the most divisive battlesof the year; Republicans vs. Democrats, deer vs. hunters,and hunters vs. anti-hunters.
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Terry Wooten: Anniversary of mom's death approaching
My mother passed away a year ago this October 10. I don't claim to be a mystic, but I do have a big imagination. When a person I know dies, I often feel like I can sense their personality around for a while. It wasn't like that with mom.
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School bell silent reminder of earlier education
Recently I was given the bell to the old Creswell Country School. The bell is usually quiet. All the little kids it called in from recess have grown old or passed on.
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Lifelines: Warriors lean on each other during, after battle
Larry is a combat-wounded Vietnam veteran, and I stood up against the war. He's not just helping me build a garage; we're building a friendship, and telling each other our stories.
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Lifelines: Some memorable driving adventures
I drove my first motorized vehicle when I was six years old.
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Perspectives: The poetry police
I was pulled over by a carload of poetry police recently on my way home from the Kalkaska Elders Project. The authorities accused my themes of weaving all over.
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Terry Wooten: WWII soldier's story told in poems
Jack Miller, a survivor of the Bataan Death March and a POW during World War II, won't be in any Memorial Day parades today.
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