Google has launched a new tool that lets cyclists look up trails through its Google Maps application. Traverse City has been included in the first 150 cities to be added to the feature.
From the Chicago Tribune:
"Hard-core and recreational cyclists will be able to use the Web-based technology to plan trips or explore biking trails and [...]
Division Street is a major transportation corridor of Traverse City with over 20,000 vehicles driving through each day. It is a corridor that most people in the region (Antrim, Benzie, Kalkaska, Leelanau, and Wexford counties) will travel heading north or south.
The Record-Eagle is reporting that city officials are seeking to make the Division Street drive [...]
On March 24, Jim Ridgway, of Environmental Consulting & Technology, Inc. and David Flowers, of Natural Water Solutions, LLC., will be in Leelanau County to talk about decentralized water and wastewater treatment.
From the Leelanau County website:
"Two (2) national experts will share their experiences on low cost, small scale decentralized water & wastewater treatment opportunities. [...]
This year, go green on St. Patrick's day in a different way. With green energy.
The Grand Vision Energy Working Group will host a Renewable Energy forum on March 17.
It starts at 7pm and will be held at the Traverse Area District Library.
Michigan currently receives only 3% of its electricity from renewable energy. By law, electricity [...]
The Michigan State House Transportation Committee was in Traverse City yesterday (Mar 8). Because Michigan is unable to match federal transportation funds, the state is losing out on the federal dollars. As a result, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has been forced to delay indefinitely a significant portion of road improvement projects.
7&4 News was [...]
The Cadillac News has this story on a $150,000 grant to improve Cadillac's Gunn/Seventh streets:
"Cadillac will use the money toward improving .15 miles of Gunn/ Seventh Street to approve access to the city’s industrial parks, City Manager Marcus Peccia said Wednesday. The project calls for street resurfacing, new curbs and gutters, and water/ storm sewer [...]
February 12, 2010 – 1:16 pm
The "Farm to School: Setting the Table for Wellness" conference is offering scholarships to students of Northwest Lower Michigan schools.
In a press release issued yesterday, the conference organizers announced:
Schools in northwest Lower Michigan have until Feb. 22 to take full advantage of significant scholarships that cover registration costs and substitute pay for sending seven people [...]
February 8, 2010 – 1:27 pm
Here is a look at farming news making headlines in the region:
The Record-Eagle has this story on Northwest Michigan College's new viticulture program:
"Northwestern Michigan College will partner with Michigan State University and Missouri State University to offer the area's first viticulture certificate. The program offers an option to complete an associate's degree and will begin [...]
January 15, 2010 – 12:21 pm
A revision to Wexford County's zoning ordinance is sparking debate.
The Cadillac News has this story:
"As proposed, development of agricultural property for a use other than a farm could be undertaken only if the land in question "is no longer viable for agricultural purposes" and would require a zoning amendment to the Wexford County Comprehensive Plan, [...]
January 13, 2010 – 3:27 pm
On January 19, a new bus transfer center will open in Buckley that will open up cross-county transportation options available to northern Michigan residents.
7&4 News has this story:
[Cadillac/Wexford Transit Authority] Director Vance Edwards says “For a lot of years we have had requests from people in this community to take them to and from different [...]
