This month, many Lenawee County residents will have an opportunity to express support for two institutions that are at the very heart of any functioning democracy: public schools and public libraries.
There is little doubt that we are a severely politically divided nation. As many Republicans appear to be accepting the positions of the far-right minority, this cleavage will only expand.
The Adrian City Commission has both an opportunity and a dilemma. The opportunity is in the form of $100,000 that District Court Judge Laura Schaedler ordered Crimson Holdings to pay into a fund for the benefit of residents who have been affected by the noxious sulfurous smell coming from its plant on East Maumee Street.
It was a cold January early morning as members of various community-based organizations slowly filed into Housing Help of Lenawee to prepare for the yearly task aimed at gathering data on the homeless, better referred to as unhoused individuals
Recently, the Adrian City Commission started enforcing a policy that anyone who wants to speak during the public comment period of meetings must state their home address.