Mayor Jeremy Cowperthwaite knew exactly what the crowd was waiting for during Saturday’s Winterfest at City Park.

About 415 people jumped into icy Lake Fenton to raise money for Special Olympics Michigan on Saturday, Feb. 1.

Sunday, I was enjoying watching hundreds of ducks dipping their heads into Spirit Lake about 200 feet off my dock. It’s extremely unusual for our medium-sized lake to still be mostly unfrozen in ...