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Tammy Foster wins Jan/Feb performance award

Tammy Foster, MCCC Payroll clerk, won the Enriching Lives Performance Award for January/February. Foster has worked in payroll at MCCC for 22 years. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Sienna Heights University and an associate’s degree from MCCC. Denise Lindemann, who works in the same office as bookkeeper, said she […]

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Comedian holds farewell show at Meyer Theater

Comedian Kevin McPeek will never say farewell to comedy, but he is bidding farewell to performing. The Night of Comedy held in the La-Z-Boy Center on March 4 served as McPeek’s farewell performance. The event was filmed by Comedy Central. McPeek invited magician Ken Dumm and ukulele-player Jen Shenberger to […]

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Lives of four women celebrated at Whitman Center

The lives of four women who made an impact on the history of our region were discussed Tuesday in a program at the Whitman Center. The program celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Women Alive! Coalition.  Biographies from the 11th edition of “In Search of Our Past: Women of Northwest […]

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Matt’s Music Blog

You can’t count the amount of chart-topping, 90’s one-hit-wonders on two hands. It almost seems like the mainstream music from the 90’s flew in and flew right out. Bands like The Verve Pipe, Wallflowers, Blind Melon and Semisonic all came and went, abruptly leaving one popular song and disappearing. With […]

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Crystal Bowersox to play second show at the La-Z-Boy Center

Due to popular demand, Monroe County Community College has added a second show by “American Idol” runner-up and Toledo-area native Crystal Bowersox. The added show will take place at the college’s La-Z-Boy Center, Meyer Theater on Friday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. The original show, slated for Saturday, April […]

Opinion

Where’s the dislike button?

Though fun at first, social networking sites have long since become a breeding ground for narcissism, drama, and the popular trend of the digital anti-resume. For months I cruised through Facebook’s attractive honeymoon phase, chatting with friends and dabbling on Farmville. Now every time I read through the news feed […]

Opinion

Senators walking out in Wisconsin, Indiana need to get back to work

The state of Wisconsin is just like the rest of the country: broke. If the Wisconsin Democratic state senators have anything to do with it, it’s going to stay that way. Scott Walker, recently elected state governor, has proposed a “Budget Repair” bill that is meant to help decrease the […]

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Not all women should reproduce

MTV shows “Teen Mom” and “16 and Pregnant” have been under constant fire for being mindless shows that misrepresent pregnancy. They have been called bad influences, horrible and have also been put under the branch of television that is known as idiotic reality television. I would like to point out there […]

Entertainment

‘The Roommate’ lacks plot

#8220;The Roommate” follows a college freshman who begins what seems to be a normal friendship with her dorm roommate. The friendship quickly becomes unstable as the roommate becomes obsessed with the protagonist, becoming jealous of her relationships with new college friends, a possible new boyfriend and her pre-college best friend. […]

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February brings unfavorable films to screen

February is the month to avoid the movie theaters. Filled with box office failures, February was far from the date hotspot that Valentine’s Day typically creates.   The Unknown Predictable, boring and forgetful – Liam Neeson, try as he might, cannot lift “The Unknown” past a cheap thriller with a […]