My Aunt Janice Pearl Housekeeper e-mailed me a cute little story the other day. I may have heard it before, and so too may have you. That said, it’s still cute and will make you smile. * * * The Outhouse Once there was a little boy who lived in the country. They had to […]
For the second time in two months, Heckle & Jeckle Party Store, 27 N. Washington Street, was victimized by a seemingly armed bandit. According to Oxford Village Police Chief Mike Neymanowski, a man entered the store on Thursday, June 19, just before 10 p.m. ‘We have video of the robbery,? Neymanowski said. ‘And, there seems […]
I’ll admit right here and now: I never was part of that great American broadcasting tradition — I never was a PBS kid. Sesame Street, huh? Where’s that? Ever the intellectual giant, the only thing with Sesame in or on it that I knew of were those wonderful McDonald’s Big Mac burgers, with two, all […]
These three-day, holiday weekends . . . yikes. Hard to get back in the saddle and write a column when you’re still thinking about sun, barbeque, family, friends, fireworks, et al. But, I’ll get something out on deadline, thanks to dear wife Jen. Jen is always e-mailing me something . . . and something is […]
This past weekend the ‘Daily? Oakland Press ran a nice feature on the growing by leaps and bounds county — in particular the western part, by Novi and right here in the Northeastern tier. Of course you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know things are a little more congested and cramped than […]
Don Rush has not been traded to another franchise or dropped down to the farm club. His column will return. So relax. Don’t worry. Be happy!
Auto manufacturers world-wide are in hot pursuit of the ultimate crossbred vehicle. Tinkering engineers have mated smaller, responsive cars with larger, meatier SUVS. The results are vehicles born with the best qualities of both sides of the parental lineage. Mitsubishi’s entry into this groovy hybrid market is the sure-handling Outlander. I was given the tricked-out, […]
Auto manufacturers world-wide are in hot pursuit of the ultimate crossbred vehicle. Tinkering engineers have mated smaller, responsive cars with larger, meatier SUVS. The results are vehicles born with the best qualities of both sides of the parental lineage. Mitsubishi’s entry into this groovy hybrid market is the sure-handling Outlander. I was given the tricked-out, […]
Little three year old Sean Rush now sings proudly, ‘O-Can-nee-da!? And that’s it, eh. Like his old man (that would be me), he doesn’t know the rest of the anthem those hosers to the north sing. Of course his lack of verbiage on the anthem side has not stopped him from proclaiming, ‘I am Canadian.? […]
A little more than midway down and all of the way west in the ‘mitten? part of Michigan lies Ottawa County. This county is rich in its farming tradition. And, just like in our area, those once rich in farming, sooner or later become rich in housing developments. Some, like the eco-terrorists of the Earth […]