In the summer of '82, McDowell and Caren, his high school sweetheart and wife of one year, set out to bicycle 700 miles along the West Coast, from Eugene to San Francisco. A highlight of the trip was the hope and then the promise of meeting retired lighthouse keeper Bill Owens.
A Circuit Court ruling in Cass County could create a legal frenzy of Michigan growers seeking to overturn a common property classification in hopes of saving thousands of dollars in their annual tax bills.