A LOOK BACK IN TIME | LOGGING IN GLADWIN COUNTY

Logging in the early days was a labor-intensive business – especially the part that happened in the woods. Each tree was a project that involved the work of several woodsmen.

Stand Downs for 2023 are gearing up across the country

Stand Downs for 2023 are gearing up across the country, with more to take place as the weather warms up. Stand Downs are one-, two- or three-day events for homeless veterans with varying services offered, depending on the length of the event.

LETTERS POLICY

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A LOOK BACK IN TIME | CEDAR AVENUE

A LOOK BACK IN TIME | CEDAR AVENUE

Our Dickensian border policy

“ I became, at ten years old, a little labouring hind in the service of Murdstone and Grinby.” Thus relates David Copperfield in the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. Of course, Dickens was a crusader against the exploitation of children.

Gift appreciated

To the Editor: I would like to make the Gladwin community aware of something special about some of your high school kids. My grandson, Jimmy, is fighting a rare form of cancer. I have worked with kids for most of my life in Midland, the last 36 as a principal.

NAC supplement helps curb cravings to smoke

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’d like to have your thoughts on what value the NAC supplement may have in reducing cravings for marijuana or nicotine? I’m 73 and have been smoking marijuana daily since I was 21. Now I’m quitting for health reasons.

MOMENTS IN TIME

On April 1, 1999, David Smith was arrested and charged with originating the “Melissa” email virus, which infected more than a million computers worldwide and caused more than $80 million in damage.

How will we be led?

To the Editor: Thomas Paine wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” He had to contend with but a monarch, King George III, not an autocrat. Nowadays, it seems autocracy is perhaps fashionable within some spheres, mainly the Republican Party.

A LOOK BACK IN TIME | PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

A LOOK BACK IN TIME | PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH