For 53 years, the Almost Home Animal Shelter has been a cornerstone of our community, founded by dedicated, compassionate local citizens to provide refuge for stray, abandoned, and surrendered dogs and cats. As an independent, private non-profit organization, we are committed to the welfare and ...

EDITOR: Super One recently made changes to its Community Dollars program. Non-profits benefiting from this wonderful sharing platform could receive 1 cent for every $1 of grocery receipts we turn in to the store. That doesn’t seem like much, but it adds up and can be used for the betterment ...

EDITOR: Dickinson County will suffer from Republican plans (21-6 in House Budget Committee) to cut SNAP (food stamps) by $230 billion and Medicaid by $880 billion so that the top 1% can reap a $1.1-trillion windfall. The Green Book December figures, put out by Michigan Department of Health ...

The letter titled “Is Jim Crow coming back in America,” printed in The Daily News on Thursday, begins with “Is the country recessing to the era of Jim Crow?” I think the writer was trying to say regressing, but I digress. The next whole paragraph stammers on about some irrelevant, ...

EDITOR: At the January Dickinson County Board Meeting, the Commissioners voted to end funding for the Michigan State University Extension Services. At the center of this issue was funding to support a full-time 4-H Coordinator position at a cost of $81,000, which would come out of the ...

In a small town like ours, the “grapevine intercom” is loud and clear — and means more than all the advertising of our big box stores! I have been boycotting a certain store in our area from April 2023 to November 2024. For over 18 months I managed to not step foot in the place. I have ...