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The most common way to receive assistance from the Father Fred Foundation is to visit its Traverse City headquarters. But what about people from other counties who have to spend precious money on fuel to drive to town so they can ask for help paying an overdue electric bill?
It began on a Saturday morning in the second spring after The Grub Invasions. I was spading a section of dead lawn. The yard was a wasteland. That morning the flowers in a kitchen vase had died of thirst. Now I had unearthed a headless plastic toy soldier. Were these omens? Why did I think I would do better with a flower garden than grass?
One thing missing from this year’s National Cherry Festival in Traverse City will be locally grown cherries.
Twelve people who didn’t have jobs now do. More than 100 work hopefuls attended a Northern Michigan Agriculture Job Fair on Monday at the Park Place Dome, and one employer hired some of them on the spot.
Don’t expect to munch on local cherries at this year’s National Cherry Festival. The Grand Traverse region’s crop will still be clinging to the trees.
Teachers and administrators in Traverse City Area Public Schools this week will attempt to hammer out differences in how they interpret the district’s finances.
Julius Bugai is frustrated, if not hopping mad. Bugai raises rabbits on Alpine Road in rural Leelanau County and contends his neighbor’s dogs continuously raid his bunny stock. He’s tried to take precautions, but the big dogs always find a way to get to his rabbits, which he raises to sell to restaurants.
John Urka has raised berries for 30 years and said his u-pick operations on M-37 west of Kingsley and in Brethren attract a lot of families.
A Suttons Bay man convicted of molesting young girls has been sentenced to life in prison in the case.