Opinion

Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year are three of four of our national holidays established in 1870, along with Independence Day. Christmas and New Year both fall on a Wednesday this year, which will make life interesting for a couple of weeks, with students excused from classes and businesses operating on holiday hours.

I love to cook and to plan dinner menus.

‘Tis the season for celebration and good cheer.

The Water Resources Division (WRD) of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is soliciting monitoring recommendations for 2025 to support its Surface Water Quality Monitoring Strategy.Primary goals of the strategy are to assess the current status and condition of individual waters of the state and determine whether water quality standards are being met; measure spatial and temporal water quality trends; evaluate the effectiveness of water quality restoration and protection programs; and detect new and emerging water quality problems.For 2025, the WRD intends to allocate the majority of its monitoring resources to those watersheds highlighted in the Basin Year 2 Watersheds Map.

When was the last time you tried something new—I mean really new?The tried and true remain a foundation of daily living but the will to step out on a limb is vital, both for the individual spirit and the health of our species.

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