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
     Being an election year, there has been reference to good, bad and great leaders and there has been many promising the people, if they get elected, they will be a great leader. In school we have been told or have read of great leaders in our nation in the past.
     We have [...]

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 [...]

OUR VIEW - republished from The Clare Sentinel’s June 1st print edition
     Just when you think there cannot possibly be any further fumbles in the process by which candidates are nominated for appointment to  the Parks and Recreation Board, Mayor Pat Humphrey goes and snatches defeat from the jaws of victory one more time.
     As [...]

You and the Law
By Richard S. Allen, Attorney at Law
     Last week I was at Fort Knox, Kentucky for a reunion of the 1st Battalion 33d Armored Regiment. The 1st of the 33d dates back to World War II when it was part of the 3d Armored Division. Even though the 3d AD is deactivated [...]

     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 [...]

     Ernie Harwell was one of those guys you always thought would live forever. It’s unfortunate that it’s not the case.
     It’s a unique situation when a baseball announcer is regarded as one of your state’s most beloved individuals. But as we’ve heard ever since the longtime voice of the Detroit Tigers died last week, [...]

Be sure to check back at www.clarecountyonline.com on Sunday, May 9, for a column written by Jeff Goyt, Clare Sentinel outdoors columnist and former Clare County Sheriff, on the topic of Mother’s Day and the importance of moms in our lives.

Be sure to check back at www.clarecountyonline.com on Saturday, May 8, for Clare Sentinel sports writer John Raffel’s column in which he remembers the voice of the Detroit Tigers, Ernie Harwell, who recently passed away.

Dear Editor: I disagree with the decision to hire Tim Moore as the Farwell Elementary School principal.  If he has to be brought “up to speed,” he is not qualified.  And, by resigning his post early, he is saying to the voters that elected him, “Thanks, but I’ve got a better offer now.”
Susan Rees   
Farwell