Brighton icers ousted by Pioneer, 4-3

ANN ARBOR — For the Brighton hockey team, it was an earlier-than-expected exit on Thursday night at the Ice Cube.

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Highlanders skate on — Howell icers dominant in second straight 8-0 win

HOWELL — The Howell hockey team might be playing its best hockey of the season at just the right time.

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Hartland slides past Pinckney — Eagles now face Walled Lake Northern in regional final

HARTLAND — Tim and Brian Depp, father and son, respectively, are going to be staring at each other from opposite boxes when the Hartland and Walled Lake Northern hockey teams meet in a Division 2 regional final at the Hartland Sports Center on Saturday.

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Phil Power: Airline merger could boost region

There are lots of reasons the much-anticipated merger between Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines would be good — very good — for Michigan. But as happens all too often when a good idea comes along, it’s met by noisy objections from Washington.

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Brighton holds off WL Western down stretch – with photo gallery

MILFORD — Maybe the Brighton boys basketball team is inspired by what the Bulldogs’ girls team is doing.

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Gretchen Voyle: A few words on starting starter pots

Q: I am starting a few tomato plants now. I saw this thing in a catalog that you can make little starter pots out of newspaper. You put a couple of small squares of newspaper in this wooden mold and push a cylinder into the mold and it forms the pot. They won’t stay together. I want to use glue or wallpaper paste in between the layers. Will this work? I am also concerned about all the lead from the ink in the newspaper. Won’t this get into the plants?

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We must know where we’re going

In response to Bill Cattley’s Feb. 14 letter, “Bush is example of leading, not lying,” I have an adult question to ask of Bill.

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Be more fair on public pensions

I was glad to see the Daily Press & Argus bring up the problem of public employee pensions, but I was disappointed that the focus was on school employees (story, “Who saves with privatized posts?” Feb. 17).

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Dropouts: Raising age seems easiest, not best education policy

This editorial originally appeared in the Lansing State Journal.

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Role players key for ‘Dogs — ‘Starting 10′ to face North Farmington in regional final

BRIGHTON — When Brighton girls basketball coach Jason Piepho says a player has a role, he’s serious.

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