UPDATE November 9, 2007: Well, that cool YouTube video I linked to below has been pulled. The good news is that I found an even cooler video of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald! (seriously, go watch this) There’s a feature on Absolute Michigan today called The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald & more Michigan […]
The Leelanau Enterprise reports that a record or near record voter turnout is expected for the Tuesday, November 7th election. While Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land has estimated that 3.4 million Michiganders will turn out for the election (about 45% of the state’s 7.1 million registered voters), a much higher percentage of Leelanau’s 18,149 […]
News from the Week Our top story was the mock election at Leland School, where Leland government class students gave speeches on the behalf of candidates for many of the races (who also spoke). The event attended by students from Leelanau & Traverse City Schools and was webcast live. It will be rebroadcast on Monday […]
(statewide voting results for Michigan will be posted on Absolute Michigan!) Students from Glen Lake, Leland, Leelanau Schools, Northport, Suttons Bay, St. Marys and Traverse City were in attendance. Winning candidates/proposals in green! Governor Devos 53% Granholm 47% US Senator Bouchard 52% Stabenow 48% US Representative Huckleberry 58% Camp 42% State Senator McManus 54% Schippers […]
D.H. Day Barn, photo by Jim Sorbie According to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (excerpt from George Weeks’ Sleeping Bear: Yesterday & Today): The D. H. Day farm, comprised of 400 acres, was also known as “Oswegatchi” after the New York community where his father was born and the Oswegatchi River where D. H. […]
This Thursday (Nov 2) at 9:00 AM Leland School will host candidates for state and national office and 1000 students for the only webcast student mock election and rally in the United States. The webcast is produced and sponsored by MichiganLiveEvents.com and you can tune in LIVE over the internet at Absolute Michigan. Between the […]
The Traverse City Record-Eagle has a feature looking at both signs of the Farmland Preservation Measure on the Nov. 7 ballot in Leelanau County. If approved by voters, the measure would raise just under $1 million in the first year to support the county’s farmland preservation program. Farmers who qualify could voluntarily sell their property […]
Yesterday’s Detroit News had a great feature on Chris & Jody Treter and their Higher Grounds Coffee Trading Co., Michigan’s only 100% organic and fair-trade coffee producer. After having first year sales of just $60,000, Higher Grounds is now approaching half a million dollars. It sells about 100,000 pounds of coffee each year throughout Michigan. […]
News from the Week The week’s top story was an article from ESPN that Leland grad Alisha Glass has led Penn State to 17-0 Volleyball Start that is well worth your time. Other stories included news that a Suttons Bay Library Millage will be on Nov. 7 Ballot, a collaboration between area schools, the Fresh […]
The Record-Eagle has a nice feature on a collaboration between area schools, the Fresh Food Partnership (FFP) and Honor-based Food for Thought to make Get Jammin’ Apple Jam. Students will market and sell the jam and the project is a joint fundraiser for the schools and FFP, a nonprofit group that purchases locally grown fruits […]
I played a little “eeny-meeny” game trying to decide between a dry (but informative!) article on education funding as it relates to the 2006 elections and a photo from last week’s Leland vs. Northport soccer game. Then I decided to just do both. The Record-Eagle has an excellent analysis that says that while the list […]
The Record-Eagle reports that the Suttons Bay-Bingham District Library will appeal to voters again to authorize a lower and shorter-term millage. The library is requesting 0.47 mills for five years to pay for operations at the library. Voters rejected a .77 mill measure in August with no ending date. Read Library millage back on ballot […]