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Columns October 5, 2005
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Polls Show Granholm’s Re-election Vulnerabilities
Michigan Politics
By George Weeks
     “…he is not an ideologue, and has not only a keen mind but a mind open to argument.”
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Engadine Consolidated Schools
by James P. Wilcoxen Superintendent
      The first six-week marking period for the elementary will end October 7. Report cards for the elementary, grades kindergarten through sixth, will be sent home October 14. Progress reports for the high school students will be mailed home October 10. Good communication between the school and home i
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Gould City By Marilyn McNeil
     477-6925 donmar@lighthouse.net The weather has been wonderful, with warm days and cool nights, and the leaves are starting to turn some beautiful colors. The back side of this is what comes "after" the leaves fall. It's that time of year again, which seems to come around so much faster tha
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Rexton-Garnet By Linda Livermore
     595-7283 If you are not absolutely delighted in the weather we have been having, then you need to take off the blinders. What an awesome display of fall in all of the various shades of greens, orange, red, and yellow. Pure U.P. for all to enjoy.
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DeTour Area By Barbara Buschbacher
     297-8075 bbann@sault.com The beautiful fall weather we’ve had lately makes it ideal to go out and attend our school’s sports games. The DeTour Raiders varsity girls basketball has been doing very well. One morning last week, on the very early 9&10 Morning Show, highlights of a few of the gir
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Les Cheneaux By Helen Shoberg
     484-2626 mink@cedarville.net Last week as I was walking along the sidewalk in Hessel, I noted a beautiful, flowering vine. It was loaded with clumps of pretty, white flowers. I tried to find out what it was, but no one seemed to know. Since then, I’m quite sure that it is a clematis called V
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Engadine By Julie Freeman
      477-6959 jf@portup.com Spending a day at the beach, in shorts and swimming suits, was something many of us did a lot this summer. Who would have thought it would continue into October?
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Brevort By Lois Movalson
      292-5581 John and Pega Kennedy celebrated their anniversary September 28 by spending the evening in Mackinaw City and then the next day on Mackinac Island, doing all the tourist things such as a carriage ride and other activities one does on the Island.
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DNR Tracks EAB, Other Pests in U.P. Forests
     Using airplanes, satellites, ground surveys, networks of permanent plots, and calls from concerned citizens, Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) forest health specialists, working in cooperation with universities, the U.S. Forest Service and other state agencies, continuously monitor the
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Demystifying Slots Myths
DEAL ME IN
     Dear Mark, Does it make any difference on a slot machine if I pull the handle or push the spin button? If a machine recently hit for a decent sized jackpot, should I avoid that machine? Lastly, if I get up from a machine and the next player hits a jackpot, would that have been mine?
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Looking Back
Compiled by Ryan Schlehuber
     115 Years Ago Saturday, October 8, 1890 The steamers
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