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Seven WC Students Cash In On Climate Change Project

But most impressive of all was how this group came together to pull this off. Middle school is oftentimes a period when social groups are formed. Groups that can be exclusionary at best. To work together these young folks needed to get past that dynamic. To step outside of their social comfort zone.
I asked them what they found to be the biggest challenge in doing this project? ...

Why Do We Import Trash?

We at N3 are big fans of recycling.
First off, it’s a really fine thing to do given the compelling propensity toward consuming we bipeninsular denizens share with much of humankind.
We recognize it’s not a profitable enterprise and is, in fact, rather expensive and still efforts are made to find a way to make it available so we can reduce what ends up in landfills. These efforts are encouraged from many sides including our state government.
But given this proclivity for consumption no matter how much effort is put into recycling and reusing and reducing we still produce a lot of solid waste.
A whole lot.
So when we receive a release such as this which speaks to the amount of waste that ends up in landfills...our state’s landfills… from other states and Canada the ongoing acceptance of refuse from these sources seems to our naive eyes to be rather...well...excessive might be a good word.
After all we are asked to recycle, reuse and reduce right? To do our part to...

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Newaygo County’s Forgotten River Part II

Cooking For Picasso Book Review

State Sen Bumstead Checks In

Great Decisions Speaker Series

Tourist Council Welcomes Exec Director

The Women Of E-Wing

Watching my colleagues interact with students has helped me grow in my own connections with students. I witness these teachers plopping down on the ground in the hallway to sit and cry with students, cheering in excitement and joy with those experiencing happiness, standing firm and setting boundaries for students who so desperately need them, and challenging students to become the best they can be academically and socially on a daily...

Singing The Snow Day Blues

“Are you freaking kidding me??!!”, I exclaimed out loud to myself when I got the text that school was closed for what seems like the hundredth time this year. I am down to BBQ sauce and angel hair pasta for food options in the house and very little coffee. How will we survive!?
The winter weather for the past few weeks has been unprecedented making many school aged children's snow day dreams come true...

“Green Book”-A Biased Movie Review

Given my personal experience with the subject, I probably have too much baggage to give this movie an objective review. My expectations that Hollywood could use a Comedic Drama formula to cover the emotional and cultural depth of this event were unrealistic. In my humble opinion, I felt like I had already seen the movie. It felt like a mash-up of Driving Miss Daisy and the Odd Couple...

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Lutherie Once Again Takes Center Stage

For the 13th year the midwinter musical montage that is the Luthier’s Concert warmed up a capacity crowd at the Black Box of the Dogwood Center.
From the country sounds of Sue Anderson playing a guitar crafted by the late Robert Sayers and the ukulele version of ‘8 Days a Week’ strummed by Don Benson and his granddaughters Cyanne and Cora Schuitema to the sardonic stories put to music by the Ralston Bowles and the enchanting emanations from Jim Spalink the musical journey brought

Random Bits

There’s this one thing that might help us be better specimens of humanity this year: it’s called Gratitude. But, let’s be honest. I, for one, am already grateful for lots of things. I’m really and truly thankful for my wife and family, friends, health, warm home, food, our country, puppies. Who can argue with this? No one can, my friends, no one. What I’m suggesting this year is we look a little closer at things swirling around in our little piece of the universe that might be overlooked, but add a certain panache to the whole thing. Mind you, the few things I present here are just the tip of my iceberg...