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Wreck of the Jennie and Annie washes up on Sleeping Bear Point
About a week ago now I came across this photo by Mark Lindsay. I asked former Park Ranger Bill Herd, and he told me what has since come out in the media. Sleeping Bear Dunes historians believe the schooner fragment, estimated to be about 40-feet long and peppered with twisted metals spikes, is part of the shipÕs bilge keelsons, which the Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archeology says were long timbers running most of the shipÕs length, strengthening the keel.   read more »

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October 24, 2006

Soccer photo with a side dish of education funding

Filed under: government,Leelanau,leland,northport,photo,schools — Andrew McFarlane @ 9:53 am

Leland vs Northport Soccer Game

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 of organizations  & politicians who oppose Proposal 5 is a long one, there are those who feel that politicians who talk about the importance of education should put their money where their mouth is. Proposal 5 would grant automatic increases each year equal to the inflation rate. It would also reduce the funding gap between the richest and poorest districts over the next five years and provide some financial protection for schools that are losing students and the per-pupil funding that comes with them.

Read Proposal 5: Debate over education funding heats up in the Traverse City Record-Eagle.

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