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As I write my final article as your Mayor, I feel blessed to have been able to share these past two years with you. It was a great experience. And, I learned a lot, met new friends and saw many projects completed including an update of our city's Comprehensive Plan. The council also...

There're only a few days left in 2018. If you were writing a novel or a screenplay and you included the drama and events of this past year, do you think anyone would take it seriously? These two sentences were written on Dec. 13 to try and get my brain started in forming my final...

Friends and neighbors, It's the holiday season and I am so missing my people. It has been a while since I lived at the home I had come to know and love, the Pine River Public Library. At this time of year the library is decorated with a tree, which I adore. The children are all excited....

With the holiday season upon us, it's easy to go over our budgets. There are family get-togethers, holiday parties and gifts for our loved ones, but all of that can add up quickly, leaving us with a pile of debt in the New Year. To help you pay off holiday debt, or other outstanding...

Each year it gets a little harder to set aside one's skepticism and enter willingly into the yuletide spirit. In the face of relentless advertising, bombarded by endless special programs on TV, driven near to madness by the broken-record litany of Christmas songs on the radio, I wait...

Merchants around the world depend on the Christmas season each year for twenty to fifty percent of their yearly sales. The travel industry from airlines to gasoline stations see a nice bump during the holidays. People are going to buy airplane tickets and buy gasoline. Grocery...