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Joe Hoshaw
One of the Letters to the Editor we received this past month really caught my attention. It was from a young reader. I’d like to share it with you here:
“Dear Editor: I am an 8-year-old student at Anderson Elementary. Some of my friends say there is no Santa Claus. One of my teachers says, ‘If you see it in The Trib, it’s so.’ Please tell me the truth: is there a Santa Claus?”
It was signed by “Ginny H.,” who said she lived on Pinetree.
My initial reaction to the letter was just a pure sense of jubilation that an 8-year-old actually was reading (and writing to) a newspaper rather than doing Google searches or posting the question on Twitter. Once I stopped doing my happy dance, though, I suddenly got this odd sense of déjà vu that I had read that letter before. Continue reading
Joe Hoshaw
Downtown Trenton will mark a major milestone next summer. But don’t expect any parades or special proclamations from the mayor on this one.
When late June rolls around it will have been 25 years since the Mulias & Ellias department store was destroyed by fire.
I remember writing a newspaper column a short time after the fire stating that it would take Trenton a “long time” to recover from the blow … “perhaps as long as five to seven years,” I think is roughly what I wrote.
I’ll be the first to admit I was a little off on that. It sounds pretty odd to even say that now. The weirder thing is that, at the time I thought I was being pretty conservative in making such a projection.
Joe Hoshaw
This issue marks the Trenton Trib’s one-year anniversary. More importantly, September also marks the start of our second year.
Late last month we had a very small company luncheon to briefly celebrate the modest milestone (which was totally appropriate, considering that we are, indeed, a very small company), and then it was back to the business of trying to survive our second year.
And if you believe all the statistics, that might not be an easy task. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, approximately 90 percent of all small enterprises fail within the first two years of operation.
That probably sounds like an ominous way to start “Year Two,” eh? Continue reading
- Joe Hoshaw
Trenton’s near 62-year association with power boat racing represents what is likely the longest-running annual outdoor event Downriver, and perhaps one of the oldest in southeast Michigan as well.
In fact, other than the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade in Detroit, nothing obvious comes to mind that would come close to matching the PNC Roar on the River in terms of event longevity in the metro Detroit area.
It wasn’t always the PNC Roar on the River, of course. From its beginning until about 14 years ago, it was known by a variety of names. To anyone who’s familiar with the event, it’s probably best known simply as “the boat races.”
Joe Hoshaw
When ASC Inc. founder Heinz Prechter purchased the region’s leading newspaper chain in the mid-1980s, many of the company’s employees were highly suspicious of his motives. There were those of us, myself included, who had concerns that he was merely interested in quickly streamlining the company in order to turn around and sell it for a fast profit, much like a real estate investor would “flip” a house.
As a young business writer for the old Mellus Newspapers at the time, I had the opportunity to share that concern with him during a one-on-one interview not too long after the ink had dried on the purchase agreement.
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