Albion Recorder & Morning Star

Mike’s Musings: Donate if you can, Helene a monster

Mike’s Musings: Donate if you can, Helene a monster

Editorial StaffOct 9, 20243 min read

We all are too familiar with it now. I am writing about the devastation that we witnessed in western North Carolina last week. Hurricane Helene, which swept through Florida quickly and then motored up to the Carolina’s within a blink…

Young Tiger fan visits Comerica Park

Editorial StaffOct 4, 20244 min read

By Bill Mullaly For Brian Draper, a former Concord High School baseball player, and his son, Carter, the run by the Detroit Tigers to the American League playoffs has been an exciting journey with extra special significance. For them it…

City of Jackson launches Fix 36 Program to boost small businesses

City of Jackson launches Fix 36 Program to boost small businesses

Editorial StaffOct 4, 20243 min read

 Small businesses in the City of Jackson are being helped by a new program that allows them to open their doors while working on code compliance. Recognizing the barriers that often hinder small business owners from successfully launching ventures in…

Marshall’s Annual Skeleton Fest adds adults to festivities for first time

Marshall’s Annual Skeleton Fest adds adults to festivities for first time

Editorial StaffOct 4, 20244 min read

By Sylvia Benavidez Drivers through Marshall’s downtown and the close surrounding streets would have a hard time missing some of the dressed-up skeletons lining the sidewalks. The kick-off party for the city’s annual Skeleton Fest which runs through October was…

ALBION 100 YEARS AGO—

Editorial StaffOct 4, 20243 min read

OCTOBER 1924 We continue with our theme of “Albion, 100 Years Ago.” October 1, 1924. Headline: “Albion Woman Confesses to Setting Fires. Mrs. Clara Clark Today Admits to Fire Chief Griswold and State Officers That She Started Blazes at the…

Bidwell in it for the long run at Marshall

Bidwell in it for the long run at Marshall

Editorial StaffOct 4, 20242 min read

By Jeff Steers Contributing Writer Marshall High School runner Jack Bidwell is going the extra mile in the sport of cross country. The MHS senior also expects to be going for a long run in life when he start college…

Looking Out: Nothing but chunky

Editorial StaffOct 4, 20243 min read

by Jim Whitehouse “We could use the Victorio Strainer machine,” I say to my beloved wife Marsha as we stand looking at a huge bag of apples. I’m referring to an old-fashioned gizmo we’ve had for decades. You cut the…

City of Albion receives HUD funding for community projects

Editorial StaffOct 4, 20244 min read

By MARK LOWERY Albion College will coordinate a $2.8 million grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development targeting site improvements throughout the city of Albion, including renovation at Marshall Opportunity High School and much-needed upgrades to community facilities,…

Mike’s Musings: National debt crisis- here’s one lawmakers solution

Mike’s Musings: National debt crisis- here’s one lawmakers solution

Editorial StaffOct 2, 20243 min read

Readers of this column know I have been an avid proponent of balancing the federal budget. Our leaders simply refuse to turn off the money spending spigot, i.e., one has to only listen to the two presidential candidates and their…

Mike’s Musings: The day Santa was booed

Mike’s Musings: The day Santa was booed

Editorial StaffSep 25, 20243 min read

I would like to thank the dozens of readers that commented on my Bicycle Hippie finds sobriety column from last week. It certainly was a change of pace from my ranting and raving about government overreach, so much so I’m…

City council hears BlueOval on target for starting 2026 production and hiring despite rocky road to construction

City council hears BlueOval on target for starting 2026 production and hiring despite rocky road to construction

Editorial StaffSep 20, 20245 min read

by Sylvia Benavidez During Monday’s Sept. 16 City Council meeting, Mayor Victoria Snyder welcomed Stephanie Fries, Ford government affairs representative by acknowledging that Ford’s BlueOval Battery Park has been contributing to the community and dealing with challenges over the last…

Albion College’s Annual Albion Community Day cleans up city and builds relationships

Albion College’s Annual Albion Community Day cleans up city and builds relationships

Editorial StaffSep 20, 20245 min read

By Sylvia Benavidez Cleaning up the city before the Festival of the Forks has been a tradition in Albion. When former Mayor Dave Atchison was in office, he held a mayor sponsored Community Clean-up Day and college students played a…

Napoleon win Rivalry Jug for fourth consecutive year

Editorial StaffSep 20, 20246 min read

by Jeff Steers Contributing Writer The Jug will stay at Napoleon High School following a rivalry win over Columbia Central last Friday. Napoleon claimed the Jug – which the winner posts the score on – with a 22-13 win over…

Looking Out: Shelling peanuts

Editorial StaffSep 20, 20243 min read

by Jim Whitehouse Peanuts. They are delicious. I like peanuts. A couple of weeks ago, I invited some friends over for a spur-of-the moment bonfire gathering around our firepit. I put a great deal of effort into the party. My…

Mike’s Musings: The bicycle hippie who overcame addiction

Mike’s Musings: The bicycle hippie who overcame addiction

Editorial StaffSep 18, 20243 min read

I was riding my bicycle last Saturday (yes, the same bike I fell and broke my hip from a year ago) when I was about 8 miles from home, and I heard a loud splat. I knew immediately my bsck…

Looking Out: The last tomato

Editorial StaffSep 13, 20243 min read

by Jim Whitehouse Tomatoes. Wonderful things are tomatoes. Every spring when I plant tomatoes in our garden, I anticipate eating one of those sun warmed beauties picked right off the plant and scoffing at the memory of the rock-hard flavorless…

Historical Notebook: When Douglass Houghton Traveled Through Albion

Historical Notebook: When Douglass Houghton Traveled Through Albion

Editorial StaffSep 13, 20243 min read

In celebration of our “Festival of the Forks,” coming up this next weekend, we go way back to the beginning of Albion’s history. Tenney Peabody (1792-1856) was the first white settler at “the Forks” of the Kalamazoo River. In March,…

9/11 Memorial at Cascades Falls

9/11 Memorial at Cascades Falls

Editorial StaffSep 13, 20243 min read

On the evening of Sept. 11, Cascade Falls in Jackson, Michigan, provided a solemn backdrop for a memorial honoring the victims and first responders of the 9/11 attacks. Organized by the Jackson, MI Tunnel to Towers Foundation, the event brought…

Mike’s Musings: Problems galore, but Congress takes six weeks off

Mike’s Musings: Problems galore, but Congress takes six weeks off

Editorial StaffSep 11, 20243 min read

Welcome back Congress, I hope you enjoyed your six-week vacation. That’s right while two wars commanding our attention, an economy that is not well, and a border that is actually borderless, our elected leaders took six weeks off.Of course they…

Obituary: Robert “Bob” Arlee Holt

Obituary: Robert “Bob” Arlee Holt

Editorial StaffSep 6, 20242 min read

Robert “Bob” Arlee Holt, age 106, of Albion, Michigan, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. He was born April 30, 1918, in New Bloomfield, Missouri to Myrtle and Neillie (Logan) Holt. He was raised on a farm with a…