tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43810589912377493682024-03-21T05:07:01.277-04:00Exponent BlogTheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381058991237749368.post-25178992031725402442012-01-10T16:44:00.004-05:002012-01-10T16:45:41.632-05:00<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-size: large;">Important information for area high school students!</span><br />
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A video on changes being made to MEAP and MME cut scores, and what students are considered "college ready."</span></span></h6><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Rmo7Xj50J3o" width="560"></iframe>TheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381058991237749368.post-68052089350549983082011-12-07T13:28:00.007-05:002011-12-07T13:33:59.808-05:00<style>
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</style><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Winter Wonderland coming to JCC on Friday</span><i> </i></span></b></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"> Columbia Central High School graduate Chris Sell has been in a number of classic musicals.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> His favorite production was Fiddler on the Roof where he served as an orchestra members.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Sell will have a chance to show off his musical and dance talents on Friday as part of The Broadway Revue.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Jackson Community College’s popular jazz/show ensemble – The Broadway Revue – will perform Winter Wonderland: The Ultimate Christmas Show in the Sheffer Music Hall of the Potter Center for Performing Arts at the College’s campus at 2111 Emmons Road, Jackson Michigan, on Friday. Directed by the musical team of Keith and Joann Drayton and Dr. Stephen R. Murphy, the ensemble cast will perform holiday favorites, Broadway, jazz, and popular music in a spectacular holiday setting.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> Show time is 8 p.m. on Friday, December 9, at Sheffer Music Hall in the Potter Center for Performing Arts on the College campus at 2111 Emmons Road.</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> There have been a number of local Christmas shows. What has been your favorite? </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b> Tell us in the comments below. </b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 9.35pt; text-align: justify;">Columbia School District wants to know what you think!<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>On right, Lindsey Hobbs, 9, won the costume competition in Norvell. She was dressed as a little devil and had horns and a pitchfork. Her friend Kasey Condra, 8, was dressed as a vampire. The two enjoyed candy and a cake walk at the event on Monday.</b></span></div></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Talon Wilson, 10, as Charlie Brown and Hunter Thayer, 9, as an Army man.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Norvell Township Hall was filled with little army men, Frankensteins, and vampires on Monday night who filled their bags with candy and enjoyed a number of other activities. Nancy Landes, who has organized the Halloween events in Norvell for the last 29 years, said she tries to make it better every year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">“The township and the community really help me out,” she said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Kids in costume participated in a penny scramble, guessed a giant pumpkin’s weight, broke a piñata, and drank cider. A cake walk made sure no one went home without sweets.</span></div>TheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381058991237749368.post-10694054473520364312011-10-26T11:48:00.001-04:002011-10-26T11:51:31.397-04:00Remembering Dundee It has been a few years since I visited Dundee High School to watch a football game. Columbia Central will face Dundee in the Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 5 playoffs on Saturday at 7 p.m.<br />
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The last time I was down to that quality field behind Dundee Middle School was 2003. On that eventful evening, CCHS player Tate “Tater” Curtis dominated the action. <br />
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The very large lineman planted the center and half of the line into the quarterback so many times, it was almost hilarious. He would play hard for two plays and then come back to the bench to catch his breath for a couple of plays.<br />
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Tater put the fear of God into the Viking linemen that night. There may be a bump in the middle of the field where Tater buried a few players.<br />
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If you go to the game – and please support the local team – remember this . . . there is seating on the opposition side for about 50 skinny women. You may want to take your own chairs like youth soccer matches.<br />
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May the ghost of Tater rise up on Saturday.<br />
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<b>Jeff Steers<br />
Brooklyn Exponent editor<br />
</b>TheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381058991237749368.post-35240593360684655642011-10-05T12:53:00.003-04:002011-10-24T16:13:04.425-04:00<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Brooklyn Exponent</i> launches SmugMug picture gallery!</b></span><br />
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Your favorite photos from the <i>Brooklyn Exponent </i>(and a few you didn't know we shot) are now available to peruse at <a href="http://exponentphotos.smugmug.com/" target="_blank">exponentphotos.smugmug.com</a>! Feel free to swing by and see your friends and family at events around the Irish Hills.<br />
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Conveniently organized into categories, such as Sports, Government, School and Events, you can click to purchase beautiful prints of them for your scrapbook. Stop by and see what we shot!TheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381058991237749368.post-52313808301375649582011-09-13T13:05:00.002-04:002011-09-13T13:06:50.305-04:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/J7q11ZLZx_I" width="420"></iframe><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Prosecutor says results of stupidity was punishment enough</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> Columbia Township Police Chief David Elwell said the department has solved the case in which two men were injured when a four inch fireworks mortar blew up in the pickup truck they were driving on Dearmyer Rd.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Daniel Robert King, 22, of Adrian, the driver of the vehicle, and Terry Lee Murphy, 23, also of Adrian, received severe injuries after the fireworks shell blew up in their pickup truck. The men originally claimed that an unknown person had thrown the shell from another moving vehicle into their truck just before it exploded.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Officers immediately suspected the credibility of the story. A following interview with a witness, who had observed the two men run into a nearby field after the explosion carrying items, further led them to believe that the story was concocted.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Elwell said a “grid search” of the bean field revealed several unexploded 3 and 4 inch mortars.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">“Although all of these mortars being described are of the fireworks variety, they are extremely dangerous, especially in an enclosed area, and especially in the hands of untrained professionals,” said Elwell.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">In follow-up interviews, Elwell said the men admitted that they had actually lit the mortar while in the truck and traveling down the road, and they did not realize that it would go off as quickly as it did. Evidence in the vehicle indicates that after being lit, the mortar fell to the floorboard between the driver’s feet, where the initial explosion lifted it to the roof inside the truck. The secondary explosion then went off, in the roof area above the passenger.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">In this follow-up interview, King acknowledged that he had taken the fireworks from a house he had recently worked on, without the knowledge of the homeowner.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Sgt. Jay Niles was able to get the address and made contact with the homeowner. The man acknowledged that he did have some leftover fireworks from a show he had put on a year or two ago. The fireworks display had been done by a licensed individual, by his account, and he provided that person’s information. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">The homeowner still had approximately two dozen fireworks displays in his house, including numerous 3 and 4 inch mortars. Elwell said they were secured in a second blast-proof container, and transported to the Columbia Township Police Department.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Since that time, the department has been in contact with both the ATF and the Michigan State Police Bomb Squad. The bomb squad offered to take them, as well as gather evidence from one, and video record the destruction of another.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">On Friday, September 9, 2011, the MSP Bomb Squad came to Columbia Township and took custody of the mortars and other displays. The ATF was likewise in attendance and took samples of the mortars. One mortar was taken to a remote location, where it was detonated, while the event was videotaped. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Elwell said he requested that the blowing up of the fireworks be taped as an educational tool to highlight the danger they pose. The video will be posted on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Brooklyn Exponent </i>website.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">The investigative report from the incident was reviewed by the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office on September 12. As both men involved in the explosion were injured fairly extensively, no criminal charges will be forthcoming locally, although the ATF is conducting their own investigation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Elwell said the investigative report was reviewed by Jackson County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Mark Blumer, who advised, in part, that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“…both subjects were severely injured by their own stupidity”</i>, and that prosecution would not be a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“…reasonable use of public resources”</i>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Elwell said he agrees.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Anyone finding fireworks mortars, or any item either marked as explosive or believed to potentially be explosive, is asked to call their local police or fire department, or 911.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 10.7pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>TheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381058991237749368.post-1391115143238881802011-09-12T13:20:00.003-04:002011-09-12T13:22:26.595-04:00Chamber of Commerce<style>
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</style> <span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Chamber of Commerce President Cindy Hubbell catches the clay pigeon at the top of its arc on the trap course. Instructor Jack Hill showed Hubbell how to use the 20 gauge semi-auto gun to knock targets out of the sky at Business After Hours last Thursday.</span></b></span> </td></tr>
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</style> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nicki Kennedy, center, of ERA Reardon was a tough act to follow with the shotgun, hitting the majority of her targets. Kennedy and other business owners socialized and ate dinner at the club during Business After Hours.</span> </span></b> </div></td></tr>
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</style> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Chamber members shoot, socialize</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 9.35pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 9.35pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">By Nathan Mahan</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 9.35pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Brooklyn Exponent</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 9.35pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">staff writer</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">It did not take long for the word to spread that this month’s Business After Hours event would involve shotguns, clay pigeons and pistols.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 9.35pt; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
The event for members of the Brooklyn-Irish Hills Chamber of Commerce took place at the Brooklyn Sportsman’s Club on last Thursday and attracted both business people and their spouses. More than 50 chamber members attended the event. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 9.35pt; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
Shooters crowded the trap stage and pistol range to try to out shoot their fellow business owners. New shooters got professional instruction on the best way to make lead reach the target and safety on the range.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 9.35pt; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
Primary sponsors of the event included the Brooklyn Sportsman’s Club, Oh These Irish Hills and Tom Coffey’s Soft Water. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 9.35pt; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
“The Business After Hours was a huge success. The chamber members were happy to get outdoors and socialize while having some fun,” Chamber President Cindy Hubbell said. “The Sportsman’s Club was a great venue.” </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 9.35pt; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
The event was catered by Poppa’s Place restaurant. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 9.35pt; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
The next scheduled Chamber of Commerce event is a golf outing on September 11. For more information, contact Hubbell at 592-8907.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 9.35pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>TheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381058991237749368.post-30339954735262708622011-08-04T11:26:00.004-04:002011-08-04T11:30:15.878-04:00Election Results<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Police and fire millage renewals pass in Columbia Township. Special education funding fails in Jackson County.</b></span><br />
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Columbia Proposition 1, to renew millage for fire protection funding in the township:<br />
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<b>YES - 759</b><br />
<b>NO - 272</b><br />
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Columbia Proposition 2, to renew millage for police funding in the township:<br />
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<b>YES - 712 </b><br />
<b>NO - 314</b><br />
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Jackson County Intermediate School District millage:<br />
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<b>YES - 5233</b><br />
<b>NO - 5621</b>TheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381058991237749368.post-47982931895708625792011-08-04T11:02:00.001-04:002011-08-18T10:58:54.103-04:00<i><a href="http://bios.weddingbee.com/pics/77595/sky_lantern_large_image_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>UFO mystery solved!</b></span></i><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thanks to an anonymous tip, we are pretty sure the Unidentified Flying Object seen over the north end of the Village of Brooklyn last Thursday was a Chinese lantern. There were no flying saucers or little green men involved.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_k4bhOeddWpU5zrTiLO5XBqpYZbUefq-3lzLlgDRNEa5iznYPloeLGgFrvONR8IXw0C5oOvufXTfAe9343iqjuAnbH4pjpIrkFvwFWapuRu59mk90FyaQZi08pNUx_-z2BvVOZC2KPLE/s1600/Brooklyn+Meteor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_k4bhOeddWpU5zrTiLO5XBqpYZbUefq-3lzLlgDRNEa5iznYPloeLGgFrvONR8IXw0C5oOvufXTfAe9343iqjuAnbH4pjpIrkFvwFWapuRu59mk90FyaQZi08pNUx_-z2BvVOZC2KPLE/s320/Brooklyn+Meteor.jpg" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">=</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://bios.weddingbee.com/pics/77595/sky_lantern_large_image_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="http://bios.weddingbee.com/pics/77595/sky_lantern_large_image_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>TheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381058991237749368.post-2090809547121671442011-08-04T11:00:00.005-04:002011-08-04T11:55:13.084-04:00Sprucing up Columbia<div class="separator"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg776OVR4MhmWHNwfDU2ec3xvw1GoMQb1AUB3t6FfTkmvd56bYiHctMKg8jn_AabN4ImruZUt6trWgQu-_DRwp_LyqyVtnXA8ydQDD6vGF6BHTKXF-0DANKFsTUVd9LKAoA_La02V-NSUI/s1600/Spruce+Up+6+RGBb.jpg"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg776OVR4MhmWHNwfDU2ec3xvw1GoMQb1AUB3t6FfTkmvd56bYiHctMKg8jn_AabN4ImruZUt6trWgQu-_DRwp_LyqyVtnXA8ydQDD6vGF6BHTKXF-0DANKFsTUVd9LKAoA_La02V-NSUI/s1600/Spruce+Up+6+RGBb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg776OVR4MhmWHNwfDU2ec3xvw1GoMQb1AUB3t6FfTkmvd56bYiHctMKg8jn_AabN4ImruZUt6trWgQu-_DRwp_LyqyVtnXA8ydQDD6vGF6BHTKXF-0DANKFsTUVd9LKAoA_La02V-NSUI/s400/Spruce+Up+6+RGBb.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</div>TheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381058991237749368.post-66574540227434000972011-07-20T14:57:00.003-04:002011-07-20T15:04:12.959-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Under the Oaks</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i.imgur.com/zRYBx.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://i.imgur.com/zRYBx.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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</style><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAptiGBMso2_jlKH_ygZTO1VOhODWQxJMhGi0dNEEAe5_2A__3JCjT1Y02ZlROWixzernKNBKDlxOBlR7pG6eB6OG12igCipcK7mS1z0yCswI-26zXC2azPFJmJFehyphenhyphengU8A77vl_ljsrg/s1600/009+cleanedb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAptiGBMso2_jlKH_ygZTO1VOhODWQxJMhGi0dNEEAe5_2A__3JCjT1Y02ZlROWixzernKNBKDlxOBlR7pG6eB6OG12igCipcK7mS1z0yCswI-26zXC2azPFJmJFehyphenhyphengU8A77vl_ljsrg/s400/009+cleanedb.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Long-time Brooklyn Exponent employee Harry Cogan retired – for good this
time – earlier in the month. A surprise retirement party was held for Cogan
last week at the Cruise Inn on US-12. Cogan worked for the Brooklyn newspaper
for 66 years, starting as a linotype operator and completing his tour of duty
as a proofreader. His wife, Holly, is semi-retired and will continue to cover
township and school meetings on a limited basis. The duo has more than 110
years of experience in the newspaper business.</b></span>
</div>TheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381058991237749368.post-39677124105008197962011-07-01T17:01:00.002-04:002011-07-01T17:04:17.523-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">'50s night at Poppa's Place restaurant</span></b></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b>F<span style="font-size: small;">rom left, Whitney Dufek, Paige Sabin, Tim Cown, Rita Hall and owner Linda Reckley dress up like it is the 1950s again for Back to the Bricks cruise. The employees of Poppa’s Place restaurant in Brooklyn got in the spirit with old fashioned cooking and old fashioned clothes. </span></b></div></td></tr>
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</tbody></table>TheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381058991237749368.post-58829109691564773812011-06-27T13:40:00.009-04:002011-07-20T15:03:58.949-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx-aBZDiIaGX6myGQZhY1m-Bxm3uMsKEsDVecs7rfb4lV9SIOeEpbVH05Ip3PtHE1M8e3uNj0_o5h9puTWik-DTb0fSr5E1TQkTG8lxgtvJ4nJ7hz_HBgc_rM2OwXpXJIbEyTsiueTCqI/s1600/Fest+4+RGB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Pictures from Race Fest, 2011</span></b></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx-aBZDiIaGX6myGQZhY1m-Bxm3uMsKEsDVecs7rfb4lV9SIOeEpbVH05Ip3PtHE1M8e3uNj0_o5h9puTWik-DTb0fSr5E1TQkTG8lxgtvJ4nJ7hz_HBgc_rM2OwXpXJIbEyTsiueTCqI/s1600/Fest+4+RGB.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx-aBZDiIaGX6myGQZhY1m-Bxm3uMsKEsDVecs7rfb4lV9SIOeEpbVH05Ip3PtHE1M8e3uNj0_o5h9puTWik-DTb0fSr5E1TQkTG8lxgtvJ4nJ7hz_HBgc_rM2OwXpXJIbEyTsiueTCqI/s200/Fest+4+RGB.jpg" width="124" /></a><b> </b><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Four-year-old Jordan Peek of Brooklyn </b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>enjoys the inflatable slide and insisted </b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>on going more than once. </b></span></div><style>
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</div>TheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381058991237749368.post-83060804006881392852011-06-21T15:47:00.005-04:002011-06-21T15:59:46.927-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">What do you think?</span> </i> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Marijuana moratorium challenged</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCFhMYAGX9n8Zbp0FS4su7NCNShKkLMyPSvx8Pyi0SqzJGRwef9DnmyaCXf80BkI4HK9z7VYsp2Ckuf2ZJzfuCIni2xwdbYZQJvWyI3OlY1a5DE1GsfGl1g3e261xlwIQdPMhAGUISv68/s1600/009+cleanedCROP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCFhMYAGX9n8Zbp0FS4su7NCNShKkLMyPSvx8Pyi0SqzJGRwef9DnmyaCXf80BkI4HK9z7VYsp2Ckuf2ZJzfuCIni2xwdbYZQJvWyI3OlY1a5DE1GsfGl1g3e261xlwIQdPMhAGUISv68/s400/009+cleanedCROP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> Local businessmen Tyler Boss and Aaron Westbrook are challenging a moratorium on marijuana dispensaries in Woodstock Township because they started their business about the same time the law went into effect.<br />
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Westbrook said, "We are not a clinic. We sell medical marijuana to card-carrying members. We are a medical marijuana retail store."<br />
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</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>WHAT DO YOU THINK? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Would you mind a medical marijuana business near where you live?</div>TheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381058991237749368.post-54051664424171622492011-06-17T14:25:00.001-04:002011-06-17T14:25:47.299-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Public Service Announcement</b></span></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/V3K2cUUbtiM" width="480"></iframe>TheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381058991237749368.post-23958395126340246872011-06-14T11:40:00.003-04:002011-06-14T12:12:38.608-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New school traffic map for 2011-2012 school year</b></span></div><br />
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</div>TheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4381058991237749368.post-68271845833329203832011-06-08T14:55:00.004-04:002011-06-08T15:03:10.775-04:00<a href="http://cbsla.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/generic_graphic_crime_pedestrian_hit_and_run_walking.png?w=400" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Columbia Police investigating hit-and-run in Brooklyn</b></span><a href="http://cbsla.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/generic_graphic_crime_pedestrian_hit_and_run_walking.png?w=400" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://cbsla.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/generic_graphic_crime_pedestrian_hit_and_run_walking.png?w=400" width="320" /></a><br />
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The Columbia Township Police Department is looking for the driver in a hit-and-run accident on Tuesday night that left a man unconscious in the street.<br />
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At around midnight, Officer Jeff Anderson was dispatched to the corner of Main Street and <a href="http://cbsla.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/generic_graphic_crime_pedestrian_hit_and_run_walking.png?w=400" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>Marshall Street for a person laying injured in the roadway. The 47-year-old man from Brooklyn was laying against the curb and was seriously injured. He was taken by ambulance to Allegiance Health, and then by helicopter to University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor.<br />
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A southbound motorist saw the man and called police. While canvasing the neighborhood, one resident said that a "thud" was heard shortly before the man was found.<br />
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The man regained consciousness for a short time at the scene but was unable to provide any details about the car that struck him. Even though he was laying against the southbound curb, it is unknown for certain which direction a suspects car would be traveling.<br />
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The victim is listed in stable condition. A next-of-kin have not yet been notified; the name of the victim has not yet been released.<br />
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Anyone with information is asked to call the Columbia Township police department at 517.592.3122. Although it is unknown the extent of the damage to the suspect vehicle, it is believed that it would show visible damage from the impact.TheExponenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10528759860032051143noreply@blogger.com0