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Volunteer board members need more than willingness to be effective

By Camila Bello Castro 
A Chicago man biked around Lake Michigan in eight days, battling self-doubts and a major thunderstorm and raising $25,000 for the Michigan Credit Union Foundation, which advocates and promotes the credit union movement by providing educational opportunities and consumer awareness. 

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About 4,000 elementary students from 50 schools – including eight guest schools – are competing in the races.

By Eric Freedman 

The iconic Blue Water Bridge has received a clean bill of operational health from the Michigan Auditor General’s Office. Based on its preliminary survey of procurement, fleet vehicles, employee training and toll transactions, the office said it saw no need to do a full performance audit of the bridge’s effectiveness and efficiency.

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By Clara Lincolnhol 

Meet former K-9 Maple. She made a big career switch earlier this year—from a human remains detection dog to a beekeeper at Michigan State University’s Pollinator Performance Center. The friendly brown-and-white dog, with a long tongue that hangs out of her mouth, dons her own beekeeping suit and uses her powerful nose to detect American foulbrood -- a bacteria that left undisturbed, means certain death for an entire honeybee colony.

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Volkswagen’s electric battery division is adding workers and creating a training program for area schools to prepare an EV workforce

The London Knights had 10 players invited to NHL training camps this week

There wasn’t a lot of hockey for Sam O’Reilly this summer. “My last game was the finals of the Memorial Cup when we won (against Medicine Hat),” the London Knights’ top centre said before the club’s 2-1 exhibition win over the Erie Otters Friday at Canada Life Place. “I’m fired up (to get going again). […]

By Emilio Perez Ibarguen

For students hoping to become conservation officers for the state Department of Natural Resources -- tasked with enforcing fish, game and natural resource protection laws -- one Northern Michigan University class gives a glimpse into their day-to-day work.

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HURON – A new pilot program launching in Huron County is aiming to confront the growing rates of homelessness in the county head on. The Community Paramedic Homelessness Outreach program is set to launch Wednesday, Sept. 10, and will see Huron County paramedics and Huron housing and homelessness services staff working alongside a Canadian Mental […]

There were 27 fatalities due to asphyxiation from grain or soil on Canadian farms between 2011 and 2020

By Rachel Lewis  

The Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians' Natural Resources Department has been working to conserve the threatened wood turtle. Their top team member is Mooz, a 9-year-old labradoodle who has been helping his owner, Bill Parsons, find wood turtles for the past five years.

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