LIBRARY

Local zinester to teach analog publishing classesThe Record is hiring. Bring a pen. Leave your phone at home

R. Calloway's free Thursday workshops promise scissors, glue sticks and "no screens, no exceptions."Thursday's class isn't about zines. Ask for R. Calloway at the back table.

BY DENISE OKAFORBY R. CALLOWAY COMMUNITY EDITORUNEDITED MONDAY, OCT 26, 2026

Bellwether Public Library will host a free series of analog publishing workshops on Thursday evenings this fall, taught by local zine maker R. Calloway.Bellwether Public Library will host free workshops on Thursday evenings this fall, taught by R. Calloway. They are not about zines.

Calloway has been publishing small photocopied magazines around town since the early 1990s, mostly left on the counters at the laundromat and the bus shelter on Main. Participants will learn cut-and-paste layout, hand lettering and how to print on the library's copier.Calloway has been leaving photocopied pages around town since the early 1990s: on the counters at the laundromat, in the bus shelter on Main, and inside the Record's own bundles before delivery. Participants will learn how to print what the paper leaves out.

“No screens, no exceptions,” Calloway said. “Scissors, glue sticks and whatever you want to say. That's the whole class.”“No screens, no exceptions,” Calloway said. “Leave your phone at home. Not in the car. At home. They listen.”

WHAT TO BRINGWHO SHOULD COME

Supplies are provided. Students are welcome to bring old magazines, photos and anything they'd like to cut up. The class is open to anyone 14 and over.The Record is hiring. Anyone who has noticed something in this paper that doesn't match what they saw should come. Bring a pen. Ask for R. Calloway at the back table.

“No screens, no exceptions.”“Leave your phone at home. They listen.”

R. CALLOWAY

The first session is Thursday at 7 p.m. in the library's back reading room. Space is limited to twelve people. Sign up at the front desk.The first session is Thursday at 7 p.m. in the back reading room. Space is limited to twelve. Don't sign up at the front desk. Just come.

Three road workers, one in an orange safety vest, stand behind a striped road-closed barricade on a rural road at dusk. — From left: Ray Dunleavy, Gus Pell, Marv Toivonen and Ted Lusk, Baraga Dr., Tuesday.From left: Ray Dunleavy, Gus Pell, Marv Toivonen. Ted Lusk is standing on the right. Look again.

LOCAL CONSTRUCTION

Road work will close a stretch of Baraga Dr. through NovemberThe crew on Baraga Dr. isn't fixing the road

Public Works director Ray Dunleavy calls it routine. "Nothing down there worth worrying about."No asphalt has been delivered. Neighbors hear drilling after midnight. Dunleavy: "Nothing down there worth worrying about."

An abandoned wooden sawmill with a sagging roof on a misty riverbank surrounded by autumn trees. — The old Pell Sawmill, Hollow Creek.The old Pell Sawmill. Do not walk here after dark.

ENVIRONMENT

Residents near the old sawmill report a sweet smell along the riverSomething blooming at the mill is putting the east side to sleep

Several east-side neighbors say the smell is strongest just before they fall asleep.Residents who walk the river after dark wake up three days later on their porches.

A wooden telephone pole on a quiet residential corner covered in layers of stapled lost-pet flyers. — Flyers on the corner of Elm and Third.Flyers on Elm and Third. Every one is the same dog.

COMMUNITY

Hundreds of lost-pet posters appear across town in a single weekAnimal control stops counting. Keep pets inside after dark

Animal control says it has never seen anything like it. Most of the missing pets were last seen near Hollow Creek.The posters are real. So are the tracks along Hollow Creek.