John Robinson

2 days ago | 99wfmk.com | John Robinson

Detroit’s legendary Olympia Stadium is no more.....it’s been gone since 1987. For close to 60 years, the Olympia was a major venue for sports events and rock concerts. According to Historic Detroit, it all began on May 15, 1926 when Charlie Hughes rounded up some Detroit businessmen and bought the Victoria Cougars hockey team. The team was renamed the Detroit Cougars. But the problem was – there was no place for them to play.

4 days ago | 99wfmk.com | John Robinson

Where did all the lifeguards go? I remember going to the beach when I was a kid – Portage Lake, to be exact – and there was usually a lifeguard on duty...you know, someone to save you from drowning. The lifeguard would sit atop a tall lookout tower that reached an average of 14 feet. Up there, he could get a better scope of what was going on in the water.

4 days ago | 99wfmk.com | John Robinson

There have been a few ‘wild west’ town replicas here in Michigan that have been successful for tourists and vacationers...such as Huckleberry Railroad, Stagecoach Stop, Frontier City, and Coopersville. But one western town had high hopes but just failed to click. The village of Jones was settled in Cass County in the early 1830s, platted in 1897, and originally called ‘Newberg’. Ed Lowe was born in 1920 and spent his high school years in nearby Cassopolis.

5 days ago | 99wfmk.com | John Robinson

Michigan's rarest flower is back for a brief time: the Michigan Monkeyflower. Monkeyflower is a rare wildflower that is nationally known as an endangered species, mainly found in northern Michigan. It's a semi-aquatic plant – part of the figwort family – with limited uumbers in the upper mitten and southern Upper Peninsula. The Monkeyflower blooms from June to August, sometimes lasting until October. Best places to find it are around the Straits of Mackinac and the Grand Traverse area shorelines.

5 days ago | 99wfmk.com | John Robinson

The above-named doctor is Dr. Darin Detwiler, a former food safety expert. According to a 2024 article in the New York Post, he claims that the most dangerous cereal in the United States is Kellogg's Froot Loops. His report states that the loops are  “heavily processed and contain high levels of added sugars, artificial dyes and preservatives, which are linked to health concerns.”What kind of health concerns?