The priciest of the lots up for auction is two parcels of commercial property formerly owned by Dale Kass at 8250 Federal Road (old U.S. and ends at 7 p.m., auctioning off a variety of properties foreclosed on by the Montcalm County Treasurer’s Office. The online-only auction via begins at 10 a.m. Submitted photoĪ long blighted property on a busy stretch of road just north of Howard City is among 33 foreclosed properties up for grabs at Montcalm County’s annual public land auction on Wednesday, Aug. Significant clean-up efforts have been made by Montcalm County and state of Michigan, but the property still contains contaminants in the soil and groundwater. 131) in Howard City/Reynolds Township will go up for auction online on Aug. Send us feedback.Two parcels of commercial property at 8250 Federal Road (Federal Road/old U.S.

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2022 Despite the enigma of the man’s midsection, the date is a success. 2022 Her luminous beauty in part explains her effect, but so too does the enduring enigma of Garbo, who died in 1990 at age 84.īarbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Feb. 2022 Right now, Allan is the biggest enigma of the Christie family. 2022 John Ibrahim is – amongst so many things – an enigma wrapped in a mystery. 2022 As China rose, as America fought and lost its forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as technology networked the world, a Russian enigma took form in the Kremlin. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2022 The Latino paradox concept was hardly an enigma for Boyle Heights resident Carlos Montes. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 8 June 2022 The protagonist of the new Netflix film written by Lena Waithe, Beauty, is an enigma. Recent Examples on the Web While the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has dashboards for Covid-19 and even monkeypox, gun violence is still an enigma for the public health community.ĭr. In these uses, the meaning is simply a figurative extension of the original 'riddle' sense. Egypt's meticulously constructed Pyramids of Giza or a theory of quantum physics, for example, might be described as enigmas. In between those uses, it was (and still is) applied to things that puzzle people. The word enigma didn't jump from referring to riddles to referring to people. Enigma comes from a Greek word that means 'to speak in riddles.' This meaning is clearly connected to the word's history. The word enigma originally referred not to people but to words, and specifically to words that formed a riddle or complicated metaphor that tested the listener's or reader's alertness and cleverness. An enigma is not easily understood especially because he or she has a confusing mixture of qualities that seem to be in opposition to one another-for example, the attention-seeking but reclusive musician, or the brilliant lawyer who gets lost on the drive home from the grocery store. You never know what that person is really thinking, or what his or her motives for doing something are. A person who is described as an enigma is a bit of a mystery.

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