Blogs List
From Way Downtown
 Chris Dobrowolski |
Coaching witch hunt No. 15,345Wed, May 14, 2008 @ 3:04PM Apparently there are some people in Rogers City with too much free time, and money, on their hands. After all, taking out an ad in the paper and attending a school board meeting, which the group led by Rogers City resident Val Vogelheim did this week, all in the name of getting varsity boys coach Karl Grambau fired seems pretty silly in my opinion. Has Grambau done a perfect job leading the Hurons? No, what high school coach does? I thought his team this year underachieved a little and a few others have bowed out of the postseason too early. But he did help the Hurons get to the regional just two years ago and also helped guide them there in 2002, not bad for a program that generally takes a backseat to the wrestling team. He also cares about each of his players from the top scorer to the last guy on the bench.
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Pardon me, but ...
 Steve Murch |
The baby bumpFri, June 20, 2008 @ 7:35PM Did your jaw drop like mine when you found out about the pregnancy pact high school girls took in, Gloucester, Mass.? Here’s the lead paragraphs from the Associated Press: “The girls showed up repeatedly at the high school health clinic, asking for pregnancy tests. But their reactions to the test results were puzzling: high-fives if they were expecting, long faces if they weren’t. “School officials in this hard-luck New England fishing town say an alarming 17 girls — four times the usual number — became pregnant this year. And even more disturbing: Some of the girls may have made a pact to have babies and raise them together.” School officials neither confirm nor deny on the record. However, the story first broke when Time magazine did the story and quoted the principal — who “coincidently” was out of the office on Friday.
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More BS (Bill Speer)
 Bill Speer |
Fireworks SafetyThu, June 26, 2008 @ 11:27AM The ever popular story this time of the year is always one on fireworks safety. And while the story is valid I believe, a recent news release crossed my desk that is worth sharing today with you. The release, from Phantom Fireworks out of Youngstown, Ohio, points out that fireworks-related injuries dropped more than 15 percent from 2005 to 2006, and since 1992 that number has been reduced 26 percent. Those numbers come at a time when fireworks use is up - in 2006 the use of fireworks was up three times from 1992 (87.1 million pounds to over 278 million pounds). "Add to this information the fact that some 35 percent of the reported injuries are from products other than consumer fireworks (illegal explosives, professional fireworks or homemade or altered devices) and the statistics are even more dramatic.
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Art Beat
 Diane Speer |
It’s good to get out of the officeThu, June 26, 2008 @ 12:22PM There I was, 10:30 in the morning, comfortably ensconced in a porch chair, gazing out at picturesque Grand Lake from the 216-foot long back deck of the Fireside Inn — and all the while getting paid. Course I had my reporter’s notebook in hand and my camera at my side, and I was listening to resort owner Lori VanSchoten tell me what makes her visitors return to the Fireside Inn year after year after year. As if by just sitting there and breathing in the unique atmosphere, I couldn’t feel and see the superb draw of a quintessential Northern Michigan fixture that is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2008. But I was there for an interview and some photos for a feature on the inn that will run in The Alpena News in mid-July, and so VanSchoten played the perfect host, sharing scads of pertinent details while I took notes — and gazed at the view. Yes, I do like my job.
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