Leelanau County sheriff’s Deputy Bruce Beeker unexpectedly resigned Feb. 20, Sheriff Mike Oltersdorf said, a few hours before a scheduled disciplinary hearing.
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Leelanau County sheriff’s Deputy Bruce Beeker unexpectedly resigned Feb. 20, Sheriff Mike Oltersdorf said, a few hours before a scheduled disciplinary hearing.
A Traverse City man faces multiple felony drug charges.
A Tustin man is dead after a Wexford County traffic crash.
Leelanau County authorities are looking for a jail inmate who didn’t return from a work-release program.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – A plan hatched more than three years ago to heal the battered Great Lakes would get its first big infusion of federal cash under President Barack Obama‘s proposed budget.
Leelanau County authorities are looking for a jail inmate who didn’t return from a work-release program.
It’s a laundry list of municipal wants: pedestrian safety improvements, water main upgrades, energy-efficient street lighting, wireless Internet, sewer lift station upgrades and a new septage receiving facility. The village of Kalkaska would like money for any or all from Michigan’s cut of the federal stimulus package.
Home values continue to fall throughout the region, but venerable Sixth Street in Traverse City stands as an oasis of appreciation.
Local home values plummeted 10 to 20 percent over the past couple years, area real estate agents say, but tax assessors contend the average home’s assessed value fell by less than 5 percent in that stretch.
Michigan communities, schools, colleges, road commissions and others are vying for a slice of the $18 billion taxpayer pie otherwise known as the state’s portion of the U.S. economic stimulus package.