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"Rivet Like a Rosie!" instruction at Yankee Air Museum
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Yankee Air Museum marked one-hundredth B-24 Liberator model assembled by its “Rivet Like a Rosie!” class yesterday

March 21, 2021 Staff

Appropriate as tribute to mark this as the fifth “Rosie the Riveter Day,” a participant in the popular Yankee Air Museum “Rivet Like a Rosie!” class yesterday assembled the one-hundredth aluminum B-24 Liberator model during ….

Arthur T Bowley Saline-Brecon Friendship Guild bench in Mill Pond Park
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Suicide prevention and depression resources are available, essential services; any reason is reason enough to call

March 30, 2020 Dell Deaton

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a free and confidential resource available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. [1] 800-273-8255 800-273-TALK This national network of local crisis centers has been set up to ….

Henry, HSHV Schnauzer-mix rescue dog
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On Saturday May 18, it doesn’t matter if you walk, wag, or run: It’s simply important to help fund our local Humane Society

May 15, 2019 Janet Deaton

This October marks the ten-year anniversary of the “new” Humane Society of Huron Valley (HSHV) annimal shelter building here in Washtenaw County. [1,2] Those who visited and maybe even volunteered at the prior facility, built ….

Mayor Brian Marl, dedicating Saline Pre-Prix print
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Mayor Brian Marl Dedicated Historic ‘Pre-Prix’ Race Print to City of Saline

August 23, 2016 Dell Deaton

Last night, Saline City Council added a unique print to one of the walls in its chambers during a special dedication last night. The image features the 1986 downtown Saline skyline and mini Indianapolis-styled race ….

Rentschler Farm parlor, 1930s Christmastime
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How Did Christmas Feel in a Rural Saline Home During the 1930s?

December 7, 2015 Janet Deaton

Visit the Rentschler farmhouse on East Michigan Avenue and find out. [1] Operated by Saline Historical Society, this 12-room house evolved from an original 1906 construction. When the home, 11 out-buildings, and acreage was purchased ….

Goodyear Blimp Enterprise N1A Type GZ-20A
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Goodyear Blimp “Enterprise” in Flight Over Washtenaw County in 1985

August 12, 2005 Dell Deaton

In mid-August of 1985, the Goodyear Blimp Enterprise, N1A routinely flew over various parts of Saline while moored at the Ann Arbor Airport. It’s shown here over the Washtenaw Farm Council fairgrounds in Lodi Township, ….

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  • Independence Day— via Billy Graham (1970): "I find that there is a certain fear and expected cosmic judgment that hangs over our country at this hour, as the Devine timepiece ticks away. Thomas Jefferson felt this deeply when he said, 'I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God…

    – July 4, 2022

  • Resurrection Sunday— In anticipation of this day, Reverend Brett Younger of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn New York recently wrote, "... people in the United States will wish Easter felt like it did three years ago. They will put on new shoes and wonder if .... On Easter Sunday, people in…

    – April 17, 2022

  • National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement Officers— via National Police Association (June 23, 2021), by Stephen Owsinski, retired law enforcement officer with experience in Field Training Officer (FTO) unit and the Community Traffic Safety Team (CTST): "Like anyone else, our nation’s cops harbor every desire to return home each day…

    – June 17, 2022

  • Memorial Day— via Billy Graham (1953): "'When American people and the people of the world begin seeking the righteousness of God first and the kingdom of God first, then we are going to see an end to strife and war and problems and suffering.' In this 1953 Hour of Decision…

    – May 30, 2022

  • via What Christians Want to Know (May 27, 2019)— "Should Christians Protest Or Demonstrate?" by Jack Wellman, Christian author, prison minister, and pastor of Heritage Evangelical Free Church, in Udall, Kansas: ... especially when they see injustice? ... The Bible admonishes us to 'Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights…

    – June 12, 2022

  • via Southern Baptist Convention (February 26, 2019)— "Who's Your One?" Day 13: Genesis 12:1-3, "Now the Lord said to Abram, 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will…

    – July 31, 2022

  • via Got Questions (January 4, 2022)— "What is the god of self?" "A god is what we run to when we need validation, help, or encouragement because we believe it has the power to give us what we need. Self is a compelling god because it arises from our deepest…

    – August 7, 2022

  • re United States Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization— On May 3, 2022, Heather Riggleman addressed the question "What Does the Bible Say about Abortion?" on Christianity website. "Every year, over three million women ... in the US will face an unplanned pregnancy and of those pregnancies,…

    – June 24, 2022

  • via Jesus Calling (2004), by Sarah Young— "I am with you, watching over you constantly ...." Matthew 1:23 "Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us" [King James Version] Psalm 34:5…

    – May 29, 2022

Past Spotlights

Brian Marl, Mayor of Saline

Saline Mayor Brian Marl slated to hold his next “Coffee Hour” on July 26, in-person at City Hall

July 22, 2021

Bygone Features

Former President Barack Obama headlines Democrat rally in Detroit Michigan

Former President Barack Obama Appears In Detroit To Headline Rally On Behalf of Michigan Democrat Candidates

October 27, 2018
When President Barack Obama stepped to the podium last night at Cass Technical High School, only a minute or two passed before he mentioned the name of former Saline Mayor Gretchen Driskell as a candidate to back. [1,2,3] Regardless of your party affiliation or how you’re planning to vote on November 6, two things stand out here. First, Michigan is that important in the 2018 mid-term election. For members of the party out of power, ....
Yoda, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1979)

Theme Announced For Seventh Annual Saline Scarecrow Contest (Competitive Entrants Will Want To Start Planning Early)

July 18, 2018
In its most ambitious challenge to date, Borer Family Chiropractic has announced the theme for its 2018 Scarecrow Contest: “Star Wars.” [1,2] As always, entrants are free to follow their most creative impulses wherever those flights of fancy, skills, and budgets may lead them. But the opportunity to frame that within the context of A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away … adds elements of anticipation and good spirited competition. What elements ....

Across From Middle School, Next To Global Manufacturing, A Block From Bowling Alley: District Court 14A-4 Is In Saline

September 17, 2018
Today is “Constitution Day.” [1] In 2009, the not-for-profit Project for Public Spaces lamented loss of the local courthouse as “a cornerstone of the community, a source of local pride and the nexus of social life and ritual. [2] [Today], courthouses and the public spaces that often surround them are, for the most part, physically and programmatically disconnected from public life, even though they regularly occupy central property in a community. Citizens don’t visit their ....

Part 1 of 3 re Future of Roe v Wade, abortion – and roles of United States Supreme Court, Congress, Michigan legislature

May 16, 2022
As of 6:30 am, the fate of Roe v Wade remains in limbo — a status never more legally in question since the United States Supreme Court first handed down its Opinion in that case on January 22, 1973. [1-5] During an appearance at The University of Chicago Law School titled “Roe v Wade at 40,” Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made headlines by criticizing that decision. [6] “‘My criticism of Roe is that it ....

Clean, Reliable Water Supply In The City of Saline Is Not Really the Stuff Of Which Dramatic Headlines Are Made

June 12, 2018
When a Saline water main broke last month it attracted major media coverage out of Detroit. Alternatively characterizing it as a “large” and “massive,” television station WXYZ Channel 7 deployed no less than a helicopter to provide live coverage. Who knew there was so much excitement to be had at the corner of North Maple and East Michigan Avenue? [1,2] Grossly missing in so much of this was a substantive explanation of what had actually ....
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