Candlelight Walk TourLights Marshall Holiday Season
Marshall Historical Society hosted the 39th Candlelight Walk with four decorated homes plus the GAR Hall Museum as a fifth venue. Proceeds aid local museums. over 500 people toured, with 80 percent from outside Marshall, thanks to volunteers and gracious homeowners.
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Marshall Historical Society
Thompsons
Pauls
Ishams
Shireys
Gar Hall
The
Historical Society
Marshall
Christmas light nuisance? By George M Strander
Ingham County Court Administrator and Probate Register comments on private nuisance neighbors. A discussion of neighbor interests and the potential nuisance created by holiday lights.
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George M.strander
Ingham County Court
Private nuisance cases warn off overzealous Christmas displays
The article reviews private nuisance law in the context of large holiday light displays. It notes courts often dismiss nuisance suits against exuberant homeowners while urging displays to curb traffic and noise. A 2009 Oklahoma case required a radio show to request spectators be respectful to neighbors.
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USA Today
Clark Griswolds
Oklahoma
Kirk Williams
Mike Stanton
Stanton
Williams
End Before Passing Comes to Pass
Funeral home worker recalls the day a county sheriff delivered death news to a divorced couple. At 52 in good health, the children's father was killed in a morning car crash on his way to work. The speaker faced breaking the news to their teenagers and extended family with support from their boss.
Planning Ahead A Mother's Life Insurance Lesson
In a guest column Kristy Smith reflects on two funerals for her ex-husband, his lack of life insurance and beneficiary designations, and the emotional and financial burdens that follow. She argues for pre planning and funding, updating beneficiaries, and learning funeral options to spare survivors in grief and probate. Her column notes are archived at diffdrum.wordpress.com.
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Michigan
Kristy Smith
Diffdrum. Wordpress
Binder Park Zoo welcomes new Mexican grey wolf and updates pair
Binder Park Zoo announces the arrival of a female Mexican grey wolf and the departure of a male from the breeding pair. Ryder moved to ABQ BioPark in Albuquerque, Izzy joined from Endangered Wolf Center and Saginaw Children’s Zoo. Keeper Chat on Dec 21 during ZooLights invites guests to learn about Flynn.
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Binder Park Zoo
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
AZA
Flynn
Ryder
Phoenix
US Fish and Wildlife Service
USFWS
ABQ
Albuquerque
N.M
LightHawk Conservation Flying
Midwest
New Mexico
Isabella
Izzy
Eureka
Saginaw Children’s Zoo
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Alison
April Kragt
April
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Liza
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Deb Miller
Marcia Fury
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