George Stockero
The month of January provides us an opportunity to acknowledge a special group of volunteer elected officials in education. It is School Board Recognition Month, and it offers communities across Michigan a way to acknowledge the continuing efforts of local and ISD school board members in providing leadership and guidance to local school districts. Across the state, there are more than 4,000 school board members who dedicate countless hours of hard work to improving education for Michigan children.
In my sixteen years as an administrator, I have worked with many school board members. I can honestly say that not one of them took the position for the pay, especially since school board members get paid very little or nothing at all. Instead, school board members take on the position, because they care deeply for their local school. They want to help their school and their community as a whole since in small communities such as those in the Copper Country, schools are
Upper Peninsula cemetery makes more room for green burials - News - Sault Ste Marie Evening News - Sault Ste Marie, MI
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After living a full life on planet Earth, why not put something back into it?
I m not going to lie, this really seems like such a cool way to go about it. I have always said when I go, I want to be planted into a tree that way I can be part of giving new life and my family and friends can come visit me and have something beautiful to see.
They are called Green Burials and they are becoming increasingly popular.
So popular, in fact, MLive recently reported that a cemetery in Michigan s Upper Peninsula has actually had to start making more room for them!
Dec 19, 2020
SOUTH RANGE Eleanore Marie Magdelena Maki (Tormala) passed away December 16, 2020, due to complications brought on by COVID-19. She was born July 22, 1926, to Andrew and Minna Tormala in Hancock, at the now-long-gone Finnish Hospital, which was located above the stairs on the north side of the Portage Lift Bridge.
Eleanore spent most of her life in South Range-during its vibrant years when the community was at its finest, with stores, taverns, restaurants, bakeries, a theater, and the lively spirit that boom times bring with operating mines. She aged through its slow decline that follows when mines close and families move away. As such, Eleanore is a reflection of South Range, having lived in her childhood home until 2014, when she moved to The Bluffs and finally Canal View Nursing Home when she could no longer climb stairs.
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December 19, 2020
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) Michigan spent more than $136 million on masks, gloves and other protective gear during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. That’s according to a nationwide Associated Press analysis of spending last spring, when states were racing against time and each other to protect essential workers. Michigan provided a list of 69 orders placed between late March and early May. The biggest expenditures were for face masks designed to filter out tiny particles from the air. The state also bought gowns, gloves, face shields, goggles and ventilators.
UNDATED (AP) An Associated Press analysis shows states spent more than $7 billion this spring buying personal protective equipment such as masks, gloves and gowns as well as vital medical devices such as ventilators. The data obtained from states through open-records requests is the most comprehensive accounting to date of how much states were spending and whom they were paying
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