Pick Your Poison at Poison Frog Brewery
By Alex Cash Staff Writer JACKSON - Poison Frog Brewery is not just any name chosen for the two-year-old establishment on Horton Road. Upon entry, patrons can look at the colorful, live, poison frogs for which its name was deliberately picked. “It was a chance I had wanted to take for 20 years, to get into the poison frog hobby and I finally pulled the trigger. If we were going to have a Poison Frog Brewery then we needed to have poison frogs,” said owner, Phil Wilcox. Wilcox found that the largest purveyor of poison frogs in North America was a fellow Jackson High School graduate. Josh’s Frogs, out of Owosso, helped get him into the hobby. Poison Frog Brewery was the moniker of Wilcox’s former home brewing project. At the same time that he was learning home beer brewing, he was learning to illustrate on computers using Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Frogs just jumped onto the beer labels he was learning to create for bottling his home brews. It’s the unique setting that Wilcox believes sets his brewery apart from the others in town. Their building is a former house that was converted to a retail space in…
Party Sunny with Cooler Temperatures
The cold air will return today and really become established tonight and then through the weekend. At the same time as the cold air comes in from the north, a wave on the front to our south will spread precipitation northward across this area Thursday night. Periods of rain and thunderstorms are expected Friday into Sunday as waves move along the stalled frontal system. At this point most of the rain would be Friday into Saturday morning. More rain is possible Saturday night into Sunday but it now seems the front may be pushed far enough south so that rain will mostly be south of Michigan. Today: Cloudy, with a high near 65. West wind 8 to 14 mph. Tonight A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41. Northwest wind 9 to 11 mph becoming north northeast after midnight. Friday A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9am, then a chance of showers between 9am and noon, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 49. East wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Friday Night A chance of showers and…
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Sarah Richmond & Carlene Walz Lefere, Governor’s Community Foundation Award; Sarah Ermatinger, VP Marketing, CP Federal Credit Union; Tim Stairs, Nostalgia Ink & Game Place; John Burtka, Grand River Brewery & Joel Tompkins, New GRB Marshall
Events of Thursday, May 10, 2018
The Brookside UM Church Annual Rummage Sale runs from May 10-12th from 8am-4pm each day ending on Saturday at noon. Baked goods will be available in addition to a wide variety of gently used items. Come early to get the best stuff. The church is located at 4000 S. Francis Street in Jackson and the sale is in the lower level of the building. Eastern Movie Matinee featuring Anna Kendrick Month at the Eastern Branch, Jackson District Library. Join us for some great films all month long. Widescreen, comfortable seats and popcorn too! Thursday afternoons starting at 2 p.m. Today: Pitch Perfect (2012, PG-13). Free admission. Local Author Roundtable presented by Patricia Robertson today from 5:30-7 p.m. Each month a local author will present their book and talk about the writing/editing/publishing/marketing aspects of being an independent writer in Jackson County. The Round Table is open to all writers, from the aspiring to the accomplished. Carnegie Branch, Jackson District Library. Waltz Ballroom Lessons. 3 week lessons in a variety of ballroom styles. Lessons are in a vibrant and relaxed atmosphere. $42 per couple or $21 individual per session. Jackson School of the Arts, 634 N. Mechanic Street, Jackson. Register at jacksonarts.org…
Warm with Increasing Clouds, Showers Developing
Expect showers and thunderstorms this afternoon into early tonight. It will also be breezy and warm today. Highs will be well up into the 70s. The cold air comes back into our area by Thursday morning and may will stay here into the weekend. A storm system will track along the front Friday into Saturday just south of Michigan bringing periods of rain and thunderstorms. Locally heavy rainfall is more than possible. Today: A chance of showers before 4pm, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 79. South wind 6 to 11 mph increasing to 12 to 17 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Tonight Showers and thunderstorms. Low around 57. Southwest wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Thursday A 30 percent chance of showers before 8am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 70. West northwest wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Thursday Night A 30 percent chance…