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A love letter to Saginaw as I return to my hometown
2+ hour, 12+ min ago (687+ words) My dad would send me a similar text many days during the summer of 2024: "You have to see the silos." If you live in Saginaw, you know what he was texting about " the colorful murals painted on the old grain…...
Jackson-area school closings for Thursday, Jan. 15
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (131+ words) JACKSON COUNTY, MI " Heavy snowfall and icy roads closed Jackson-area schools on Thursday. The National Weather Service issued winter weather advisories for extremely hazardous driving conditions and hazardous outlooks through the night of Wednesday, Jan. 14, and into the following day…...
Washtenaw County school closings for Thursday, Jan. 15
10+ hour, 27+ min ago (182+ words) WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI " Heavy snowfall and icy roads closed schools in and around Ann Arbor on Thursday. The National Weather Service in Detroit issued a winter weather advisory for extremely hazardous driving conditions through the night of Wednesday, Jan. 14, across…...
Saginaw County juvenile deaths decline sharply in 2025
18+ hour, 47+ min ago (685+ words) SAGINAW, MI " Saginaw County officials in 2023 and 2024 sounded the clarion call regarding babies dying from unsafe sleep practices. Their warnings bore fruit, as in 2025, the county recorded its fewest number of such deaths. Additionally, the county's number of juvenile deaths…...
Dear Annie: My wife’s phone never stops ringing
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (454+ words) Dear Annie: My wife's phone never stops ringing'MLive.com Dear Annie: My wife's phone never stops ringing Dear Annie: My wife and I are both successful professionals and empty nesters who have a great marriage and a lot to be…...
Asking Eric: My sibling installed security cameras inside our parent’s home
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (217+ words) Dear Eric: I recently learned that my sibling placed a security camera at my parent's home in a location where we often gather. This now means that every conversation is recorded. Sometimes those conversations involve parental care and finances. And…...
Michigan program giving new mothers $500 monthly expands to Lake County
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (593+ words) LAKE COUNTY, MI " A program giving up to $4,500 cash to families with new children is expanding in yet another Michigan county. After launching in several municipalities earlier this month, Michigan State University's Rx Kids program announced it would also begin…...
First autistic Barbie debuts with thoughtful design details
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (397+ words) There's a new Barbie on the block. Mattel, Inc. unveiled its first-ever autistic Barbie on Sunday. Created with guidance from the autistic community to represent common ways autistic people may experience, process, and communicate about the world around them, the…...
Dear Abby: My grandchild is being kept away from our side of the family
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (386+ words) Dear Abby: My grandchild is being kept away from our side of the family'MLive.com Dear Abby: My grandchild is being kept away from our side of the family DEAR ABBY: My son married a lovely woman, "Noelle," two years…...
Saginaw councilman Bill Ostash tells crowd to ‘love hard’ at vigil for husband Kevin Rooker
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (605+ words) Saginaw community gathers at candlelight vigil in honor of Kevin Rooker SAGINAW, MI " Story after story, laugh after laugh and tear after tear, the Saginaw community gathered to remember Kevin Rooker, whose love of Saginaw was abundantly clear to all…...