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Faux pas costs me a friendship

Dear Annie: Recently, I had a major social misstep that has essentially pushed one of my best friends out of my life. During the week of my birthday, I had a mid-30s crisis; a string of bad memories from dating and bad luck with women hit me and put me in a very emotionally weakened state of ...

Using baking soda to clean toys

Dear Heloise: I use baking soda to absorb odors in my refrigerator. I replace the box about every four months, but instead of tossing out a perfectly good box, I use the remaining contents to scrub plastic toys that my young son chews on. He’s cutting teeth right now. It doesn’t kill ...

Feeling the sting of supporting daughter’s family

Dear Annie: My husband and I have a 34-year-old daughter who has lived with us all her life (except for maybe a year). She brought her freeloading boyfriend in. I had cancer at the time and they didn’t even bother to do anything, so she ended up pregnant. I kicked her boyfriend out of the ...

Dinosaur building workshop at the Dickinson County Library

IRON MOUNTAIN — The Dickinson County Library in Iron Mountain will offer Dinosaur Building Workshops at all three library sites this week: 1 p.m. today at the Solomonson Branch in Norway, 10 a.m. Thursday at the North Dickinson Branch in Felch Township and 11 a.m. Friday at the Dickinson County Library in Iron Mountain. Children ages 5 to 12 will make their own stuffed dinosaur. They will start by filling the dinosaur with stuffing and a wishing star for good luck before they sew it up and take it home. Only children registered for the program will be allowed in the Teddy Bear ...