By Ralph Echtinaw Four St. Louis High School students sang the praises of science teacher Charles Bunce at Monday’s school board meeting only 30 minutes before the board voted to accept the […]
Ralph Echtinaw
I am editor and publisher of the St. Louis Sentinel, an online newspaper just for St. Louis, Michigan. I have lived in St. Louis since 2011 and run a window cleaning business called I Feel Your Pane. My journalism experience is 14 years as reporter, editor and copy editor from 1987 to 2001.
Collison single-handedly delays purchase of salt barn replacement
By Ralph Echtinaw With city council shorthanded by two and meeting a day later than usual, Councilman Roger Collison single-handedly held up the planned purchase of a new structure to store salt. […]
County commissioners take Jan Bunting to task for unsubstantiated allegations
By Ralph Echtinaw County commissioners John Lemmermann and Sam Smith took one of their colleagues to task Tuesday for talking trash about county government at a We the County meeting on May […]
County commissioners finally stop giving federal funds to municipalities
By Ralph Echtinaw After giving away $5.2 million of the $7.9 million Gratiot County received from the federal American Recovery Plan Act a year ago, the generosity of Gratiot County commissioners reached […]
Fire Board considers program to teach firefighting skills to teens in St. Louis
By Ralph Echtinaw Students in Gratiot-Isabella Technical Education Center’s public safety program will get firefighter training at the St. Louis fire station if the Fire Board likes the plan that GI-TEC instructor […]
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