April 7, 2021
Forget the think tanks and ivory towers of academia, or the centers of commerce and finance – the clean energy future that we need will succeed, or fail, bit by bit, in contentious meetings in small rural townships across the midwest and heartland, where clean energy projects are sited, or not, thru the ordinances passed by earnest but often overwhelmed township boards and planning commissions, who must contend with opposition that are a minority, but very loud, shrill, and often deliberately intimidating.
The meetings get a little animated, as this unusually vivid narration of a recent meeting from the Greenville, Michigan, Daily News.
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I urge all eligible Michiganders to get one of the three COVID-19 vaccines. It is essential to getting our country back to normal, so that we can all hug our families, get back to work, go to restaurants, send our kids to school, play sports and get together again, Whitmer said in a news release Friday. And as always: mask up, practice safe social distancing and avoid large indoor gatherings where COVID-19 can easily spread from person to person. We will eliminate this virus together.”
Ingham County COVID-19 vaccine registration
For assistance registering, call 517-887-4623 or email covidvaccine@ingham.org.
The Tragedy That Killed North Star
Chances are you have probably driven past this little village, not even realizing there was one. It s the community of North Star in Gratiot County.
North Star was settled around 1857 as a railway stop named Douglas along the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Railroad on the Bad River; the town was re-named North Star in 1884.
Business wasn t too bad – there were various stores & shops, two schools, saw mill, stave & heading mill, and post office...but then tragedy struck.
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Frank Gardner owned the stave mill which was about a mile southeast of town. On June 25, 1890, thanks to a lack of water, the boiler exploded, killing six men and injuring a dozen more. If that wasn t bad enough, the ruins and debris from the explosion caught fire, and “everything combustible was reduced to ashes”. The nearby blacksmith shop was also a victim of the blaze. Part of an incredible account that was reported at the time reads:
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