To the Editor: This year marks 70 years since the sinking of Grand Haven’s Coast Guard cutter Escanaba in 1943. There is, however, another piece to the Escanaba story that is also worthy of remembrance.
December was a challenging month on my quest to lose 50 pounds by Oct 1. When I set the goal to do so in one year, it seemed like plenty of time to accomplish such a feat.
Schools are constantly on the lookout for ways to save money, and the Grand Haven High School athletic department recently came up with a way to cut its substantial transportation budget in half.
Following the horrific slaughter of the "holy innocents" on Dec. 14, I anxiously waited to see how the first weekly news magazine to come to me in the mail, Newsweek, would report the event.
The last song I played on the family Wurlitzer Theatre Organ 950TA was Elvis Presley’s “It’s Now or Never." It was at the request of my daughter, Olivia.
"All the other kids with the pumped-up kicks,
You better run, better run, outrun my gun.
All the other kids with the pumped-up kicks,
You better run, better run, faster than my bullet."
To the Editor: The whole issue of gridlock in Congress revolves around the inability for my Republican friends on one side and my Democrat friends on the other for a failure to understand or appreciate the others' point of view.
Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital, which claims its birthing center is the busiest in Michigan, came out with its annual list of the most popular first names of babies born there in 2012.
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