It’s no secret that I love decorating for Christmas. Anyone who has walked by The Citizen offices has seen our little historic Ortonville village in one of our windows, and Santa and all nine of his reindeer in the other window. One of my highlights of the season is seeing little kids walking by with […]
You haven’t lived until you’ve heard Ryan Dohrn, a well-known, Emmy-winning sales professional and speaker, share 60 sales tips in 60 minutes. It’s a tour de force in sales training that will leave you both impressed and a tad overwhelmed. Our team had the privilege of being witness to it last month. Dohrn was one […]
Our team at View Newspaper Group is all about making connections. We like to focus on what our readers and the communities we serve have in common. However, while doing research for a client project last week, I came across a statistic I wish we didn’t all have in common. According to Feeding America, 100% […]
I, like many people out there, am mourning the loss of actor Matthew Perry. It’s pretty much all I’ve seen on social media and news websites for a week now. It is no secret that I’m a fan of the show ‘Friends’. I grew up watching a lot of television, even just passively, and there […]
BY WES SMITH View Newspaper Group Publisher and Michigan Press Association President When there was a change in leadership in Michigan’s legislature earlier this year, hope rose again in the hearts of citizens who want a more transparent state government. Maybe, it was thought by those citizens, the time has finally come for Michigan to […]
I recently made a ‘to-be-read’ jar, full of pieces of paper with the titles of the books I currently own, but haven’t read. I didn’t count them as I was writing them down, but I can say I have a log of all of my books (probably around 500 at this point) and I’ve read […]
Now that the chilly weather is here and October is well underway, I’m happy to say I am an autumn person. When people ask me my favorite time of year, I always say ‘holiday season’ which starts in October with Halloween and goes through Christmas in December. I’ve always dressed up for Halloween with enthusiasm, […]
My friend Lyndsay is the best at a lot of things, and one of those things is sending cards. She sends a card just to say she’s thinking of me, on our anniversary and always on my birthday. Each year she finds a sparkly, pink card with a great message and it always arrives just […]
I’ve recently been obsessed with a free, online, daily game called Murdle. It’s a daily mystery puzzle, and anyone who knows me knows I love mystery. As a kid, my favorite cartoon was Scooby Doo. I’ve dressed up for Halloween as both Velma and Daphne multiple times. I saw both the live action movies in […]
This week sure as heck feels like a “back to school” week. Which makes sense, of course, because most kids are back to school after their summer breaks. When I write “feels like” back to school time, I mean my internal clock/calendar registers in my brain, “summer is over, back to the books.” There is […]