Category Archives: Newspapers

The Week for April 14-20, 2008

April 14, 2008 – 7:39 am

Wild Turkeys by forestlady
Our Michigan April Event Calendar says that some of the events on tap for this week are the Earth Day Festival in Calumet on April 19 (featuring EarthWork Music artists), the Michigan Wine Celebration on Pioneer Wine Trail in SE Michigan on April 19 & 20 and the Ann Arbor Antiques Market [...]

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The Week for April 7-13, 2008

April 7, 2008 – 8:41 am

How Sweet It Is -Gladwin, Michigan by jfactor1
Our Michigan April Event Calendar says that this week is pretty much the best week to plan an event if you want to be the only game in town because we've got nothing to suggest.
If you have an event to suggest, a comment on the news, a link [...]

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Breaking Barriers in Michigan

April 4, 2008 – 9:19 am

As a young journalist in the early 1940s, Roberta "Bobbie" Applegate covered sports, police activities and trials at a time when most middle-class women rarely worked outside of the home. If women went into journalism, they were restricted to women's sections that typically featured the traditional role of women: family, fashion, food and furnishings. But [...]

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Canadian Freeze Ray wreaks havok on Michigan

April 1, 2008 – 8:37 am

Residents of the Straits area were stunned Sunday afternoon when the Mackinac Bridge was mysteriously encased in huge blocks of ice, rendering it totally impassible. While proponents for the 51st State of Superior seized upon the event to renew calls for U.P. secession, most folks on either side of the Mighty Mac were wondering if [...]

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The Week for March 31 - April 6, 2008

March 31, 2008 – 7:53 pm

lil white flower by artsy T
OK, it's spring now. Thanks for the great memories, Winter, see you in 8 months or so. As usual, The Week is the place to post comments on what's popping up in your garden or in the Michigan news. You can complain about the weather too if Winter decides not [...]

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Weird Wednesday: Michigan UFO Sightings

March 26, 2008 – 7:39 am

Michigan is full of UFO's, from numerous sightings over Lake Superior (especially around Saulte Ste. Marie) to the tale of a radio announcer who observed one over the freeway near the Detroit airport in 1978, so close that the radio host, Marc Avery, described it as "looking up into the belly of a craft." [...]

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The Week for March 24-30, 2008

March 24, 2008 – 8:55 am

Sandhill Cranes 1 by C.A. Mullhaupt
We're in the first full week of spring, which of course means that there's big piles of snow on the ground and even the Easter Bunny is feeling the cold. CA says that sandhill cranes are migrating back through Michigan in mid-March and that she captured this pair was at [...]

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The Week for March 17-23, 2008

March 17, 2008 – 12:01 pm

Detroit Night Walk 03/14/2008 by army71rich
Welcome to another installment of The Week - our place for comments and links to news from the week, interesting blog posts, cool video and media, coming events, new web sites added to Absolute Michigan.
According to our Michigan March Event Calendar, events tap this week around Michigan include ArtServe Michigan's [...]

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The Week for March 10-16, 2008

March 10, 2008 – 6:46 am

Rusty Old Boat by ~Jetta Girl~
The Week is a place for comments and links to news from the week, interesting blog posts, cool video and media, coming events, new web sites added to Absolute Michigan and other stuff you find on these Michigan internets. A big thing that happened this week was the addition of [...]

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The Week for March 3-9, 2008

March 3, 2008 – 10:55 am

We're going to use the week to post comments with news from the week, interesting blog posts, cool video and media, coming events, new web sites added to Absolute Michigan and other items of note.
We invite you to do the same!
The photo is Conservatory No. 7 by rckrawczykjr ... and I'm pretty sure that Professor [...]

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