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Dungeon master looking for fellow nerds to Play dungeons and Dragons. We're in the middle of a campaign and half our group left. We meet every other Sunday.

Just curious. Pretty sure this happened in '86 or '87.

The story told by an acquaintance of mine at the time to a few of us goes like this:

Someone or a group of people found a bunch of dogs skinned and burned around a fire pit. They took pictures or notified the cops. They investigated and found the dogs and had them removed, and then some time later people discovered more dead dogs out there. That time, they left the dogs there, assuming that whoever did it the first time didn't like that they had them removed. ie. they didn't want more dogs killed.

That's the story anyway.

So my family and I moved away in '87 and I pretty much lost touch with just about everybody I know who heard that story.

Fast forward to a few years ago I'm on a Midland group on Facebook and people are referring to a part of Midland called "Dead Dog Swamp" or "Dead Dog Road" or something like that, can't remember exactly. I asked what that referred to and they said sure enough there's a "rumor" that someone killed a bunch of dogs out those woods. However, what they described seemed like north Midland. Like near the soccer fields I think. Which doesn't make sense since it's not like you can hide much up there.

And like I said, I always thought this happened west of town where there are a lot of woods... But then I started putting 2 and 2 together. Mind you, in '86/'87 there was no Mall or anything up there. I remember visiting Midland around '95 or '96 when my Dad was living there and so I remember there being that "new mall". But going back to '86 or '87... there was almost *nothing* up there. It was all fields and woods (I think some farms, the soccer fields, etc.).

We all lived in the north part of Midland, so that "area" seems like it could make sense. I mean, yeah, Midland is small, but still it's interesting that this area is just north of where we lived.

And then there's this: I remembered another friend of mine confronting some dudes in a metal band he was certain stole his dog, and they would wear canine teeth in a necklace. I always assumed they were fake... but then we started wondering.... Everybody felt they were going around stealing people's dogs. I know for a fact this was all happening around the same time because we only lived in that area of Midland for about a year and then we moved out of State. In other words, all these old friends of mine, all these events, all of it happened in '86 or the first half of '87 because before those years I didn't know any of those friends and didn't live in that part of town.

ANYWAY....

I guess I'm just curious if anybody ever did any investigation into this. I can't find anything online.

PS: I apologize if this is a well-known and well-worn-out story for Midlanders and I'm coming in her all naive and assuming it's an old legend or something. But I really would like to know if the story has been documented in some way.

What is Homer Township for? What kind of people live there? Is there something bad about it? Is there something wrong with the Chippewa River stretch of road? My parents moved out to Homer Township and it just seems kinda weird out there. 🤔

Hey , are their any barbershops in midland area for African American hair ?

I’m 23 m down for anything just need to get over this break up

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What trans healthcare or LGBT support organizations / groups / social clubs, etc exist around here?

Midland resident for a couple years now, and just getting into the RC hobby. Anyone else out there know some good spots around town? I figured the BMX track, City Forest, and the skate park wpuld be a good place to start, but other than that I don't know the area well enough yet.

Area events calendars: City of Midland, Downtown Midland, Midland, Max Loves Midland, Sanford, Bay City, Saginaw, Mt. Pleasant

Other events calendars: Midland Center for the Arts, Dow Gardens, Grace A Dow Memorial Library, Chippewa Nature Center, Greater Midland Community Center, WMRX-FM, Coleman Area Library, Bay County Library System, Bay County Historical Museum

School events calendars: Midland Public Schools, Bullock Creek Schools, Northwood University, Delta College, Mid Michigan College, Central Michigan University

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Backyard Astronomer podcast, Seeds & Weeds podcast

MCTV, Delta College Public Media, WCMU Public Media, MAC TV Network, Michigan Learning Channel

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Each year the Memorial Presbyterian Church hosts a series of free concerts during Lent. Those Lenten Recitals available on YouTube are linked below.

Alicia Valoti, Viola (February 23, 2024)

Grace Marra, Soprano (March 01, 2024)

CMU String Quartet: Xenia (March 08, 2024) (Francesca Azzollini, Benjamin Bernardes, Haziel Santos, & Erick Tinitana)

Annie Chapman Brewer, Horn (March 15, 2024)

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Dr. Wendy Chu, harpsichord & piano (February 26, 2023)

Tom Studabaker, Tenor (March 03, 2023)

Meraki Sax Quartet (March 17, 2023) (Jacob Bissonette, Alyssa Waswick, Marco De Leon, & Kyle Mikat)

Mid-Michigan Chamber Players (March 31, 2023) (Roger Rehm, Jan Pickering, Grant Von Wald, Dale Huggard, Robin Von Wald, Annie Chapman Brewer, Jennifer Dean, & Curtis Nowak)

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