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07/26/2010 - 23:32
DeMille, McEwan Earn One Last Game On the High School Diamond

EAST LANSING – For Lauren DeMille, Wednesday’s Michigan High School Softball Coaches Association All-Star team was a great way to cap a terrific softball career. For Hannah McEwan, it was a nice way to finish the high school chapter as she prepares to begin a new one in college.

The two recent Blissfield graduates were four-year starters on the Blissfield varsity softball team and were coached by their varsity skipper, Rich Tracy, who was selected for the all-star game. They played for “Team White” on the in the Division 3 All-Star game, and lost by a 5-4 score to “Team Red.” The eight-inning game was played at Rannehy Park in East Lansing.

06/12/2010 - 17:19
Cabrini Tops Royals In Regional Semfinal

The Blissfield varsity baseball team saw its season come to an end at Bishop Foley High School in Madison Heights today. The Royals lost to Allen Park Cabrini 7-2 in the regional semifinal. Exactly one week after the Blissfield bats hit everything in sight while posting two 10-run mercy rule wins in the district, the Royals managed just four hits against Cabrini.

“Their pitcher had a lot to do with it,” said head coach Larry Tuttle, of Cabrini starter Trevor Hicks. ‘He kept us off-balance with that slider that he threw.”

Devin Suiter took the loss, allowing two runs in three innings of work on three hits, two walks and a hit batter. Eric Schmidt allowed five runs in four innings of relief.

06/07/2010 - 00:02
Royals Pound Opponents in District Tournament

Blissfield won its 27th district championship Saturday with two 10-run mercy rule victories.

The Royals walloped Erie Mason 23-7 in the opener. Blissfield scored eight runs in the first inning and never looked back. Devin Suiter picked up the win.

In the second game, the Royals defeated Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central, 15-5. Eric Schmidt earned the win. The Royals were down 2-0 after the top of the first but, thanks in part to Blake Haupricht’s first varsity home run – a three-run shot over the leftfield fence – the Royals bounced back for six runs in the bottom of the inning.

For more, see Wednesday’s edition of The Advance.

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Tran Longmoore

So we got some weather yesterday

 

The hot, muggy summer has brought with it more severe weather than we've seen around here in a few years. It seems as if there's a tornado watch or warning every week. Severe thunderstorm warnings are even more commonplace.
 
Above is a video of the clouds moving west, over the downtown buildings, as viewed from out from the front door of The Advance office. About half-way through, you can hear the wind really picking up. Below is a still picture. 
 
The thunderstorm didn't have much impact in Blissfield, although the sudden temperature drop, powerful cracks of lightning and sudden rush of wind provided entertainment for many onlookers.
 
The storm did cause work for Palmyra Firefighters, who were busy with downed trees and limbs. A downed tree blocked half of a lane on U.S. 223 near the Driggs curve. Emergency workers in Adrian were also busy responding to calls about downed trees and limbs.

Tran Longmoore

A Sad State of Affairs in National Journalism, Politics

 

There is something really wrong with the state of journalism and government in America.

For years, I’ve heard people echo the millionaire blowhard Rush Limbaugh’s claim that the media are liberal. How does that square with the case of Shirley Sherrod, who was tied to the tracks by the White House the NAACP as the Angry White Man Express came steaming down the tracks?

Sherrod, a black employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, recently gave a speech about how she overcame her own prejudices, stoked by the murder of her father by a white man, and the subsequent failing of the justice system to jail anyone in connection with prime. Leave it to a “conservative” blogger, intent on proving “reverse racism,” to publish a video clip of Sherrod, talking about how, because of her prejudice, she didn’t want to help a white farmer in need of assistance. 

Tran Longmoore

Are Wind Farms Really Needed to Save Agriculture?

One of the big selling points of the proposed wind farms in Riga and Ogden is that the leases will help farmers preserve their business. I think most people in Riga and Ogden would support the idea of preserving the rural nature of the region.

I spent the morning in the 4-H section of the Lenawee County Fair and I am getting ready for Plow Day. This region is built on farm family work ethic and farm family values. We ought to protect that.

But do farmers really need the money from wind turbines to get by?

Maybe not, according to according to the Environmental Working Group, an organization that has come under fire from farmers’ groups for posting any and every government subsidy it can get its hands on.

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