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I was honored with a Michigan Press Association 2018 Better Newspaper Contest award: Second-place weekly news feature.

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"Detroit's Challenge the Wind Program Adjusts Its Sails," in Great Lakes Scuttlebutt March-April 2021, pp. 106-108

"Detroit's Goat Yard: A Sailor's Dream" in Lakeland Boating, January 2021, pages 32-35

Detroit River Living Magazine, Spring 2020, pp 18-19.

"Marina Bosses Are Hiring," Great Lakes Scuttlebutt Magazine, March-April 2020, pp. 32-34.

"Kids Just Want To Have Fun at the Boat Show," in Great Lakes Scuttlebutt Magazine, Jan.-Feb. 2020, 88-89.

"Getting Started with the Great Lakes' Best Winter Toy" in Great Lakes Scuttlebutt Magazine, Nov.-Dec. 2019, pp. 76-78

"Challenge Met: Experiencing the Race to Mackinac for the First Time," in Great Lakes Scuttlebutt Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 2019, pp. 76-78.

"SS Badger: The last of Lake Michigan’s car ferries," Great Lakes Now, August 14, 2019. Featured Image: S.S. Badger being launched at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin in 1952. Photo by Mason County Historical Society.

"Led by Laura Mendoza, Detroit’s Firewalkers serve up smoldering throwback R&B" in Detroit Metro Times, August 7, 2019, p. 34.

"Billions Invested in Clean Water: Port Milwaukee implements a range of methods to great success," Great Lakes Now, July 15, 2019. Featured Image: A cruise ship in Milwaukee’s harbor. Photo by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; courtesy of Port Milwaukee.

"Restoring Howards Bay: Legacy lead and other contaminants are targets of dredging and capping." Great Lakes Now, June 28, 2019. Featured Image: Howards Bay in the 1980s, Photo by Joe Graham WDNR via Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant.

"Going Green for Blue Waterways" in Great Lakes Scuttlebutt Magazine, July-August, 2019, 22-23.

Sail racing in the 'D', Grosse Pointe News, May 23, 2019, 2A

In Great Lakes Scuttlebutt Magazine, May/June 2019: 46-47.

Grosse Pointe News, March 14, 2019, 3A

Grosse Pointe News, March 21, 2019, 2A

"Detroit Sailor, Filmmaker Presents Racing's Common Goal" in Great Lakes Scuttlebutt, March-April 2019, p. 72.

"Officials urge, 'Build the Seawall,'" in Grosse Pointe News, Feb. 28, 2019, 1A

"Farms, Shores request urgent seawall repairs," in Grosse Pointe News, Feb. 21, 2019, 1A

"'Ice dog' on Lake St. Clair," Grosse Pointe News, Feb. 14, 2019, 1B

"Grosse Pointe Yacht Club grows partnership with Challenge the Wind," published in Grosse Pointe News, Aug. 16, 2018.

Seawall fix creeping forward in Grosse Pointe News July 19, 2018

"Grosse Pointe Equestrian: Less club, more community" in Grosse Pointe News June 21, 2018. For this article, Melissa Walsh was honored with a Michigan Press Association 2018 Better Newspaper Contest award: second place weekly news feature. "A solid lead that draws the reader in. Well-reported and packaged."

RJ Spangler, Pointer of Interest in Grosse Pointe News, March 15, 2018

"Mack Avenue Records Achieves High-Style Kudos in Jazz" in Grosse Pointe Magazine, March-April, 2018.

"Cotton Family Wolf Wilderness," in Grosse Pointe Magazine, July-August 2018, pp 20-21.

Day to stand trial for home invasion, sexual assault in Grosse Pointe News, Feb. 8, 2018

"I say" column, Grosse Pointe News, Dec. 28, 2017

'I Say' column, Grosse Pointe News, Nov. 26, 2017

'Rivertown Survivor' in Hour Detroit Magazine

'Grosse Pointe Public Schools' in On Pointe Magazine

'Hockey: It's a Girl's Life at the Onyx' in Rochester & Hills Magazine

'Grosse Pointe's Super Novices Hit the Brick' in Grosse Pointe Magazine

'Lake St. Clair: It's Shifty' in Pointer Magazine

'A Goal-Scoring Visionary' in Grosse Pointe Magazine

'Discovering Rochester' in Rochester & Hills Magazine

'Metro area volunteers repair Pentagon roof' in The Detroit News

'The Parent-Coach Conference' in Michigan Hockey Magazine