Breaking News

Planting flowers as a remembrance

Dear Heloise: I'm loving all the ideas that you are receiving about flowers and funerals. I just wanted to give you another idea: A dear friend of my mother's sent a planter of bulbs for my mother's funeral this past February. The flowers were beautiful and bright at that time of year, and ...

Briefs for Tuesday, Jan. 13

Change of location for Rotary Club ESCANABA - Today's Rotary Club meeting will be located at Bay College in room 525. This is within the Student Center, next to the Bay Café. If you are parking in Lot D, you can use the bookstore entrance and follow the hallway to the room just past the Café on the right. If you are parking in Lot E, you can walk down the sidewalk toward the courtyard and come into the doors on the left, just past the laundry room. As of right now, it looks like all future meetings will be at Bay College, but in the Joseph Heirman University Center in Room ...

Planting flowers as a remembrance

Dear Heloise: I'm loving all the ideas that you are receiving about flowers and funerals. I just wanted to give you another idea: A dear friend of my mother's sent a planter of bulbs for my mother's funeral this past February. The flowers were beautiful and bright at that time of year, and ...

Deadbeat boyfriend must be cut off

Dear Annie: I have been with a man off and on for seven years. He is my best friend, and I can't live without him. A few years ago, he stole my stimulus check of $1,200, and he brought other women home, claiming he was only doing business with them. He doesn't have a job. I'm paying all the ...

Mass in kidney turns out to be an oncocytoma

DEAR DR. ROACH: I had a routine ultrasound to check my kidneys because my father (who is 80) has kidney disease, and his urologist said that it is genetic and that my sister and I should get a baseline screening. I am 50. My doctor called me the following morning saying that there was an ...

Tucking in the front of shirts

Dear Heloise: Recently, someone asked why someone would just tuck the front of their shirt into their pants. This is done to show off the belt buckle. A belt buckle can be a fine piece of jewelry, so one shouldn't have it covered up by an untucked shirt. But one might not like having their ...