On Sunday, Jan. 9, a team of American runners (most with northern Michigan roots) will leave the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on a 250-mile run. For 10 days they’ll jog through the ancient Rift Valley, sleep in highland villages and raise awareness with folks back home about rural poverty and lack of schools. Ten marathons in ten days! On Jan. 20 they’ll arrive in Yirgacheffe, one of the world’s great coffee-growing regions.
Glen Arbor, Michigan, has a lot going for it. Lake Michigan, the Sleeping Bear Dunes, friendly locals, a vibrant art scene … and here’s a new notch for the belt. BroBible.com (“Every bro has a story”), an online fraternity-spirit lad mag, has named Glen Arbor among the most “Bro Towns” in the United States.
Each fall, Empire residents Robert Foulkes and Robin Johnson travel from northern Michigan to southwest Ireland to labor on their 20 acres in County Cork along Glandore Harbor — also known in the native tongue as Cuan Daire or “Harbour of the Oaks.”
In January, a contingent of northern Michiganders will run 250 miles across Ethiopia, from the capital, Addis Ababa, to the Yirgachefe coffee growing region in the southern part of the ancient East African nation, as part of a campaign to generate awareness and raise $100,000 for local education projects, including the construction of much-needed schools in coffee-harvesting communities.
By Nic Halverson Sun contributor In light of the ongoing debate about whether or not to pave the Sleeping Bear Heritage multi-use bike trail that will soon run through the National Park, we solicited this perspective from an avid rider on Missouri’s “Katy Trail”. If I learned anything the first week I moved to rural […]
By Jacob Wheeler This story was written for AbsoluteMichigan.com ANN ARBOR — President Barack Obama took a break from the constant political storms in Washington, D.C., to address the University of Michigan (U-M) 2010 spring commencement ceremony today. And thunderstorms rolling across the Midwest rewarded him with a break in the weather, as nearly 85,000 […]
This report was published by Progress Illinois: http://www.progressillinois.com/posts/content/2010/02/16/dueling-solutions-asian-carp-invasion By Adam Doster Last week, the White House released its own $78.5 million Asian carp deterrence plan. Environmentalists, nervous that an invasion will wreak havoc on the region’s ecosystem, are expressing disappointment with the Obama administration’s lack of a timeline or cohesive plan. The reversal of the […]
The significance of Obama’s coronation Tuesday was overwhelming; waving goodbye to Bush, on the other hand, was an emotion much easier to measure By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor WASHINGTON D.C.—All night and all morning, trickles of people turned to streams, flowing out of Metro stops and Greyhound buses, through tunnels and down city streets. Those […]
Chris Skellenger, a local musician, gardener and humanitarian, is spending part of this winter in Lesotho, a small landlocked African nation surrounded entirely by South Africa. With his nonprofit organization, 11 Oaks, Skellenger promotes bucket drip irrigation in barren and dry Lesotho. As Nadine Gilmer reported in her profile of Skellenger in the August 9, […]
Award-winning documentary to screen in Traverse City By Holly Wren Spaulding Sun contributor We are speeding through the Orange Free State in South Africa. The sky here is as black as any sky I’ve seen—inky dark and throbbing with stars. Tall grasses bend in the wind on either side of a narrow and mostly empty […]