Ode to a band teacher
By Carol Stiffler My hero has literally fallen. Mr. Bill VanEffen was my band teacher from grades six through 12 at Newberry. I adore him. He taught me how to play the trumpet, and later the French horn. He played every instrument in the room, and better than we ever...Homework: How would I use my fame?
By Bill Diem Tyler Dettloff, the Bay Mills poet, musician, and Lake Superior State professor, asks new students to write 400-500 words as if they were famous and wanted to use their fame to call attention to a community issue. The essay must include all of the...We’re punishing the wrong people
From the press box By Dan Hardenbrook Everybody is talking and has an opinion about what’s best to do now, and how we should handle athletics at school. I ask, for the student athletes and families who have been punished: Why aren’t we allowed to make a choice? It’s a...How can we get back to school?
Carol Stiffler My children haven’t been inside a school since March 13. They left then for a three-week break at the start of the coronavirus outbreak in Michigan. Three weeks turned into a month, and then face-to-face learning was called off for the year. You know...Just Bill – We take our masks on vacation
Just Bill Friends invited us to visit them in the south of France, along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. As far as Covid goes, this is an area like the UP: not many locals had it. It is also full of second homes and vacation hotels that are now attracting people...Stay Informed:
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