MADISON, Wis. – Local farmer and heart transplant recipient Jim Ogg recently participated in the United States Transplant Games held in Madison, Wis.
     Two years ago in September Jim received a heart at the University of Michigan Hospital after 20 years of a steadily deteriorating heart. His new heart obviously is working out well. [...]

By SHEILA BISSONNETTE, PMDL Librarian
     CLARE - Who hasn’t heard the comment, ”there are only two seasons in Michgan, Winter and Construction”?  Most adult drivers do everything they can to avoid construction zones.  Modern technology can provide drivers with all the information we need to avoid road construction areas.  However, for younger eyes those orange [...]

HOOPZONE WINDS UP SUMMER CAMPS
HOOPZONE Basketball just finished its fifth camp in a summer series that covered ages 4 through high school.  Camps beginning with our youngest hoopers to the experienced teens were geared towards the development of skills and PUREHOOP shooting.  Thank you to all our participants from Farwell, Clare, Lake, Evart, Harrison, Coleman, [...]

   BY RICHARD S. ALLEN
  This endless debate over whether Undersheriff Rick Miller can be both Undersheriff and Surrey Township supervisor is a tempest in a teapot.
     As usually happens when townships and counties get tied up over some simple problem, they turn to those hated attorneys to tell them what to do. They don’t want [...]

 BY JEFF GOYT, Outdoors Columnist
  In my travels in the past month or so, there seems to be two questions I am asked frequently. The first one is, will the baiting ban ever be lifted?
     The other is, what do you think about the Otsego County case, where deer eating from a bird feeder caused [...]

By Tom Brown
    Last month a good friend in Texas wrote to tell me that he and his family had decided to move to Mexico. In his letter to me he included a copy of a letter he was sending to President Obama, asking the President to help him with his move. I would [...]

Dear Editor:
“There are times that try a man’s soul.”
Passing by the Clare Library, I came upon a rental truck full of plants.
I’m sure they were not bought in our local nurseries, but were paid for with our local taxes.
Pat Jones
Clare
The Clare Sentinel took some time on Friday to check with Sheila Bissonette, head librarian for [...]

“He talked to a lot of different schools trying to make the right choice for himself on what he wanted to study and where he wanted to play. I know baseball was a large part of it as well.”
Farwell Eagles head football coach Scott Barnhart

By John Raffel
The Clare Sentinel
     FARWELL - The chance to play [...]

BY LYNNE WELDER
     MIAMI, Fla. – On May 8th, former Clare resident Joseph Kisnosky, 89, received the French Legion of Honor, France’s highest award, for his military service in France during WWII. Kisnosky is one of 17 veterans in the Naples area to be honored this year. The French government has awarded the Legion of Honor [...]

     In three or four days, we celebrate a special day, that being Mother’s Day. There are two important females in all sportsmen’s lives; those are their Mother and their Wives. Both have to be the most forgiving persons in the world.
     Growing up, I watched many a day, which my mother stayed home, taking [...]