Musings on a Village Presidency
My days as Pinckney Village President are winding down. Before I was appointed to fill a Trustee vacancy on Pinckney Village Council in December of 2003, it was not at all unusual for meetings to start at 7:30 PM and end at midnight, with half the agenda items deferred to some unspecified future date. It [...]
Triathlon Chronicles: Zukey Tri a la escargot
I’ve included two versions of the same photo here for very important reasons. The first reason – Photo 1 – is simply because this is a hilarious triathlon photo. That is me on the left, with Goddess #1. I wonder which one of us is not looking forward to jumping into Zukey Lake at 8 [...]
Triathlon Chronicles: Mission accomplished!
I’m a goddess now. I know, you are all “Rebecca, you are a goddess all the time!” And this is true, but my survival of the Tri Goddess Triathlon definitely raised the goddess bar today. I’m writing this at 5 pm on Sunday after a 2 hour power nap, which was just as much a [...]
The Ice Cream Mile
Today was the annual Ice Cream Mile at Pinckney High School, an event Coach Tom Carney has been running (ha!) for years to kick off the summer season. It’s an all ages event, although the crowd is definitely skewed to the younger end of the age range, due to their superior ability to eat junk [...]
Summer kicking off with Art in the Park and Kids’ Fair in Pinckney
Pinckney’s Art in the Park, Livingston County’s harbinger of summer fun for over two decades, runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 2-3 in the picturesque Putnam Township Square. Over 100 fine artists and crafters will be on hand to show off their wares and demonstrate their creations around the Gazebo area. There will also [...]
When government is battier than actual bats
If you have ever thought that government projects must naturally be free of government red-tape, I have loads of tales to tell you, but I’ll restrict this blog post to just one project – the LakeLands Trail improvements that Putnam Township has been struggling with for several years now. In a nutshell, Michigan Department of [...]
PLHH Chamber of Commerce honors community members
The Pinckney Lakeland Hamburg Hell Chamber of Commerce honored community members at its annual Mingler and Awards Event on Thursday, April 19, at Lakelands Golf and Country Club. Chairman Kathy Mariani presented the following awards: The prestigious Lifetime Community Involvement Award went to John and Anne Colone, who have both given to the community in numerous [...]
Love + Pinckney: Rally focusing on solutions to heroin problem
The Pinckney area has experienced 11 or more heroin overdoses leading to death and two suicides in a little over a year, and three students whose friends have died have something to say to the community about that. They think it’s time to focus on what is positive and not what is negative, and on [...]
