Opinion

Q: My 26-year-old son recently had to go to the Emergency Department because of severe pain in his side that came on quite abruptly; he was told he had a kidney stone that should pass within 10-12 hours, and was sent home with only a prescription for naproxen for pain.

Dear Editor. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, and breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women. Women have a one in eight chance of developing breast cancer in their lifetime. If you haven’t been diagnosed with it, you likely know someone that has. Look around. It doesn’t care if you are young or old, Black or White, rich or poor, single or married. Breast cancer doesn’t discriminate.

Michigan has more miles of freshwater shoreline than any state in the nation, is the second- most agriculturally diverse state in the nation, is home to more than 115 lighthouses, and five million newspaper readers. Really?

As we come into October, Munising Library will once again take the time to highlight the fight against censorship and join with other libraries, schools, bookstores, and groups around the world to call attention to the very real attack on our freedom to read. October 1 – 7, 2023 is Banned Books Week and the American Library Association and Unite Against Book Bans will mark this year’s event with a call to action on Let Freedom Read Day.

Seasonality is a huge part of our lives here in Alger County. While we mainly talk about it as part of our economy and infrastructure, seasonality can also have major impacts on what we do for entertainment and health in the Central Upper Peninsula.

October is National Dental Hygiene Month, to celebrate the work our great dental hygienists and dentists do and to help raise awareness of the importance of maintaining good oral health. Good oral hygiene results in a mouth that looks and smells healthy.

To our fellow Grand Island Township Residents: This letter is to make you aware of our current need to fill our position of Township Clerk. In the event we are unable to fill this position, we will have 45 days to appoint somebody. If the position remains vacant after 45 days, we will no longer have control over the matter.

Americans may be starting to question the rosy narrative on electric vehicles. Ford has dropped prices for its brand-new line of electric pickups, the F-150 Lightning, by as much as $10,000.

The Apostle John concludes his gospel with these words, “Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.” (John 21:25).

Q: I have been hearing more on the news about an apparently new disease called ‘acute flaccid myelitis’; I have two young children – is this something I should worry about? A: This disease, which is known as AFM, is quite rare, affecting 1-2 in a million children. CDC surveillance of this disease only began in 2014, because of the increasing number of cases being diagnosed in the U.S.