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Category Archive: Culture

Artwork from Glen Oaks Professor Michael Northrop featured in exhibition 

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“A Retrospective of 22 Years at the Oaks,” a collection of artworks by Professor Michael Northrop, is now on display in the Flora Kirsch-Beck Art Gallery on the campus of Glen Oaks Community College.

Posted on December 1, 2022December 1, 2022 Watershed Voice

Sow Good Seeds: Be like the chipmunk

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Sow Good Seeds columnist Deborah Haak-Frost writes, “I don’t know if chipmunks feel gratified by their stores of food after busy days of harvesting, but I definitely feel a sense of satisfaction as I watch the metamorphosis from piles of vegetables on my counter to containers in the freezer or jars in the basement.”

Posted on November 10, 2022November 10, 2022 Deborah Haak-Frost

Charles Thomas: Does counseling work?

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WSV Columnist and psychotherapist Charles Thomas writes, “I’ve met more than a few people in my life who believe counseling and psychotherapy are nothing more than a big pile of steaming horse (radio edit). And honestly, I understand why some people feel that way.”

Posted on November 7, 2022November 7, 2022 Charles Thomas

Letter to the Editor: Reproductive freedom

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Carol Higgins of Mendon Township writes that no one has “the right to enact legislation to force me to believe and behave the same as you about reproductive choice.”

Posted on November 4, 2022November 4, 2022 Watershed Voice

Letter to the Editor: Vote ‘Yes’ on Michigan Proposal 3

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Ken Peterson, MAJ USA (Ret.), of Buchanan urges fellow Michigan residents to vote “Yes” on Michigan Proposal 3, Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative.

Posted on November 3, 2022November 3, 2022 Watershed Voice

Screen Tea Podcast: Blair Witch

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Welcome to Screen Tea Podcast! For their Halloween episode, your hosts have chosen to cover one of the only decent spooky movie sequels made in recent history: Adam Wingard’s 2016 sequel to the Blair Witch Project: Blair Witch!

Posted on October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Lisha and Jules McCurry

Screen Tea Podcast: Donnie Darko

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Welcome to Screen Tea Podcast! It’s October, and your hosts are here to deliver with a film that they have accidentally deemed “SpiFi” in dedication of spooky month: Richard Kelly’s 2001 genre-bending cult hit, Donnie Darko!

Posted on October 26, 2022October 26, 2022 Lisha and Jules McCurry

Thomas: How to Have Hellish Mental Health

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Watershed Voice columnist Charles Thomas imagines what C.S. Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters” would look like if instead of trying to damn “the patient” to hell, the two demons at the center of the story tried to create the worst mental health in that patient. So if you’re looking to improve your mental health, stop listening to those inner demons, and go for a walk.

Posted on October 18, 2022October 18, 2022 Charles Thomas

Rick Haglund: Michigan is betting big on electric vehicles with tax breaks. Will it pay off?

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Michigan Advance’s Rick Haglund ponders whether state and federal funding for automakers is “a critical public-private partnership needed to save the planet from greenhouse gas-spewing internal combustion engines, and reduce dependence on Chinese-made batteries and computer chips? Or is it corporate welfare gone wild?”

Posted on October 12, 2022October 12, 2022 Michigan Advance

Bites with Beca: Deadlift Coffee Company, Three Rivers

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Watershed Voice Food Columnist Beca Welty recently visited Deadlift Coffee Company’s new location for the first time, and left with plenty to say.

Posted on October 10, 2022October 9, 2022 Beca Welty

Letter to the Editor: Vote for Proposal 2  

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Ken Peterson, MAJ USA (Ret.), of Buchanan urges fellow Michigan residents to vote “Yes” on Proposal 2 (Promote the Vote).

Posted on October 10, 2022October 9, 2022 Watershed Voice

Letter to the Editor: Michigan 5th Congressional District race

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Andy Anderson of Dowagiac, a self-described lifelong Republican, explains why he’s voting for a Democrat in the Michigan 5th Congressional District race.

Posted on October 5, 2022October 5, 2022 Watershed Voice

#MomLife: Mental illness is not contagious

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Watershed Voice columnist Steph Hightree writes about mental health and parenting in this week’s #MomLife.

Posted on October 4, 2022October 4, 2022 Steph Hightree

Bites with Beca: Useless Creatures Brewing Company, Three Rivers

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Watershed Voice’s resident food reviewer Beca Welty returns with a look at downtown Three Rivers’ newest addition, Useless Creatures Brewing Company.

Posted on September 27, 2022September 27, 2022 Beca Welty

Letter to the Editor: Well done, President Biden 

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Ken Peterson, MAJ USA (Ret.), of Buchanan gives “kudos to President Biden, Congressional Democrats, and a few Congressional Republicans” for a variety of legislation passed in recent years.

Posted on September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 Watershed Voice

Column: Flaws in Michigan’s Opportunity Zone program require the state to take action

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Anne Kuhnen argues, “While the current landscape certainly provides more questions than answers, the existing research on economic development programs should make us wary of claims that Opportunity Zones will change the trajectory of struggling communities.”

Posted on September 22, 2022September 22, 2022 Michigan Advance

Letter to the Editor: Why I’m Running for Cassopolis School Board

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Hailey Colpitts of Vandalia explains why she is running for Cassopolis Public Schools Board of Education as a write-in candidate in November.

Posted on September 20, 2022September 19, 2022 Watershed Voice

Sayrie: A reimagined Little Mermaid is nice but it isn’t enough

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Watershed Voice’s Aundrea Sayrie says while reimagining Ariel is a step in the right direction, she has reservations about the upcoming live action adaption.

Posted on September 16, 2022September 16, 2022 Aundrea Sayrie

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