Variable clouds with snow showers. Very cold. Low 12F. Winds NW at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of snow 60%. Snowfall around one inch..
Variable clouds with snow showers. Very cold. Low 12F. Winds NW at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of snow 60%. Snowfall around one inch.
Updated: December 13, 2025 @ 4:04 pm
Maine’s loons are on the mend, filling more of the lakes and ponds in the state with their haunting calls. Maine is home to a few thousand of the large waterbirds, and conservationists say efforts to protect them from threats have helped grow the population. The state has the largest loon population on the East Coast. Maine Audubon says an annual count of common loons found more adults and chicks this year than last. The group says it estimated a population of 3,174 adult loons and 568 chicks for the southern half of Maine. That’s more than twice the number in 1983, when the count started.
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Lovell took it upon herself to learn tenor saxophone after a conversation with SMC’s band director, Mark Hollandsworth.
Lovell was a featured speaker at SMC’s Founder’s Day celebration in November.
Lovell began playing clarinet as a fifth grader, at which point she had already been in choir for three years.
Lovell took it upon herself to learn tenor saxophone after a conversation with SMC’s band director, Mark Hollandsworth.
Lovell was a featured speaker at SMC’s Founder’s Day celebration in November.
Lovell began playing clarinet as a fifth grader, at which point she had already been in choir for three years.
WATERVLIET — Whether she’s singing, acting or playing tenor saxophone and clarinet, it’s fair to say that Lauren Lovell’s Southwestern Michigan College experience gives new meaning to the term “triple threat.”
For Lovell, 20, the idea of performing took hold almost as soon as she could talk. Daughter of Amy and John Lovell of Watervliet, Lovell started singing at age 5 or 6.
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