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Image for the persistence of pottery story shows a table in a pottery studio with rectangles of clay painted and carved with designs. Photo by Stewart McFerran.

The Persistence of Pottery

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Image for Share your climate story is of a half-submerged yield sign with a traffic light on it. Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash dot com.

Climate stories sought

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Images for Cattails: purrfectly practical are of cattails in fall or late summer in front of a body of water with cylindrical brown flowers gone to seed on the left and the brown flowerheads amongst green cattail leaves in summer on the right. Photos from Unsplash.com

Cattails: purrfectly practical

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Image for Nonprofit organizations is of hands extended with coins in them and a note that says, Make a change. Photo from Unsplash dot com. Image by Katt Yukawa.

Nonprofit story roundup for 2023

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image for readers ask local author to pen sequel is of author Sylvia Duncan standing outside next to a colorful maple tree with red and orange leaves. In the background is the weathered gray side of a barn on her property in the Bear Lake area. She is smiling and wearing dark glasses and a blue jean shirt. On the right is a photo of the cover of her book Escape to Loon Haven. The cover is red, orange, gold and green. there's a loon at the bottom and and a band of colored fall leaves at the top.

Readers ask local author to pen sequel

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Image for Spot a bear den? shows a D.N.R. biologist in the woods kneeling in front of an opening in a snow mound, the entrance to a bear den. Another person stands behind him. Photo courtesy of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

Spot a bear den? Tell the MDNR

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Image for The Last Road trip is of the author's mother, aka Gram E, standing outside the flower shed at the Flower Farm at Pierport. She is wearing a floral print top and white slacks.

The Last Road Trip

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Image for Grand Ball to feature Victorian theme is an old-fashioned print in black and white of Victorian era ballroom dancing. Image by Gordon Johnson.

Grand Ball to feature Victorian theme

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Image for An Old-Fashioned Christmas shows a platter of 8 caramel apples covered in peanuts, the sticks pointing upward and ready to be grabbed. Photo by Joshua Elie.

An Old-Fashioned Halloween

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Image for My Perfect Autumn Playlist is of a lake reflecting the colorful leaves of orange, red and yellow with a fisherman in a boat and the railing of a deck in the foreground with a pair of earbuds superimposed on the image. Photo by Gordon Berg.

My Perfect Autumn Playlist

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Image for Ghost, waterspout or snow squall story is of what appears to be a waterspout near South Manitou Island, which is part of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The South Manitou Island Lighthouse can be seen to the south (left) of the phenomenon. The photo was captured by Don Sielaff, a Leelanau County resident.

Ghost, waterspout or snow squall?

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Image for Ghost Ship ready for Boos and Ghouls was taken at night with the middle deck of the ship's exterior lit, giving it a ghostly appearance. Photo courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of the S.S. City of Milwaukee.

Ghost Ship ready for Boos and Ghouls

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