Bob Hawley (Republican) and Peter Van Nort (Independent) are running for Glen Arbor Township Supervisor. We conducted the following Q&A with the candidates.
How many different kinds of plants, animals, and other organisms live at Sleeping Bear Dunes? To help answer that question, nearly 250 scientists, naturalists, students, and other nature lovers joined forces Sept. 16-17 for the Blitz the Bear bioblitz.
A studio artist (that would be me) walks into a Traverse City Goodwill store looking for used clothing to repurpose (I cut up T-shirts into a knittable yarn). And as I stand there, rifling through the 25-foot long floor rack full of T-shirts, I think, and not for the first time, “There are enough T-shirts in this one store that no one needs to make or buy a new T-shirt ever again.” It seemed as though there were thousands.
Debbie Ellis had no idea her life was about to change until a student at Glen Lake School, where she works in the kitchen, called out to her as he went through the lunch line this past May.
Five rental homes may be leveled as a result of a massive business deal between the Noonan family and Rieth-Riley Construction, Inc., headquartered in Goshen, Indiana. Rieth-Riley’s services include road and bridge construction as well as earthwork and building site preparation. The deal, which closed on July 1, centers around the sale of Kasson Sand and Gravel, which began operation under Peninsula Asphalt Company of Traverse City in 1959. In 1982, it was sold to Robert Noonan and has been family operated ever since.
Photo by Anne-Marie Oomen: Kayakers protest the Mackinac Straits pipeline on Labor Day weekend. Canadian company that owns Mackinac Straits oil pipeline responds to “shut down Line 5” campaign By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor The Canadian oil company that owns the Mackinac Straits pipelines — and was responsible for the 2010 Kalamazoo River spill — […]
M-22 is a scenic road that hugs the Lake Michigan shoreline, it’s the namesake of a triathlon, it’s an apparel brand, and apparently also a hot commodity for thieves. The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) says it has replaced approximately 90 M-22 road signs in the past three years.
Kids going to college who are planning to vote absentee, take note. Same for the elderly who want to vote but no longer have a driver’s license.
Burdickville resident Jim Lively, a program director with the Traverse City-based Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities (formerly the Michigan Land Use Institute) is a key player in the Oil & Water Don’t Mix campaign, which calls on the state to shut down two aging oil pipelines under the Straits of Mackinac.
Like many in Flint’s Latino immigrant community, Yaquelin Vargas said she didn’t learn until late January that Flint’s drinking water was lead poisoned. Vargas, a U.S. citizen, said she drank tap water while she was pregnant, and as she first began breastfeeding Lydia, now 8 months old, who suffers from lead poisoning.