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THE ALERT WELCOMES LETTERS FROM OUR READERS! Call or text 231-399-0098, send mail to Elberta Alert Letters, PO Box 357, Elberta, MI 49628, or write to elberta.alert@gmail.com. Letters may be edited for length. Profanity will be indicated but not replicated. THANK YOU, voters of Blaine, Gilmore, Joyfield
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By Emily Votruba EVENT Tuesday, December 4. The Northern Michigan Culinary Arts Community invites the public to a talk by Patty Cantrell, "Local Food: A Prescription for National Healing." With free, locally sourced appetizers made by SEEDS kids and some of our area's most talented chefs.
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By Emily Votruba State legislators may soon vote on a set of bills that would make sweeping "emergency manager"–style changes to state public education, while making it easier to establish private and charter schools. The Benzie Democrats and Frankfort–Elberta Schools superintendent Tom Stobie have voiced their
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It was such a moneymaker last year (clearing about $500), and so much fun, that the Village Parks and Rec Commission will sell Christmas trees again this year on Russ Mix's lot, between Lane Plumbing and the post office on Frankfort Avenue. This year they'll sell
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Our turnout was about 73%, down from 2004 (79.2%) and 2008 (77.9%). 478 ballots were cast, including 5 from overseas. Thank you to election workers Carole Anne Lee, Pat Appleton, Cathleen Christie, Nancy Wing, and Charlie Hendershott, with great assistance from Sharyn Bower. Poll watchers were Karen Roberts
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By Bob Kenison and Emily Votruba Back in July of this year, the Alert’s Morgan Feger interviewed the candidates for Benzie County sheriff—three Republicans. Ted Schendel won the August primary and would have been unopposed in the general election. But in July, Coury Carland announced he was running
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By Eric Pyne The redistricting of May 2011 split representation for Elberta and Frankfort and created a larger District 7, which will now include the Village of Elberta; Gilmore, Joyfield, Weldon, and Blaine Townships; and part of Thompsonville. Don Tanner (D), the current District 7 rep and county commission chair,
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A little over a year and a half ago we learned we'd scored an "8" on the Public Act 4–created score sheet for municipalities' fiscal health, which effectively placed us on the state government watch list for possible Emergency Manager intervention. The Village leadership
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Attention, attention! The League of Women Voters Candidate Forum scheduled for tonight (Tuesday), which was to feature county commission candidates Don Tanner and Adrian Poulisse, has been canceled. There will still be a law & order candidate forum on Wednesday, tomorrow, however, featuring sheriff candidates Ted Schendel and Coury Carland,
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Get the full schedule as a pdf here: filmfestflierschedule. Tickets for individual film festival films ($10) are available one hour prior to showtime at the box office. Festival passes ($60) are also available at the box office or at the Garden Theater website. For your aural pleasure, the Garden Theater
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A quick update: About 40 people showed up at City Hall for the hastily called meeting with Josh Mills, State rep Ray Franz, and the DNR's Frank Foster. They assembled discussed possible reasons for the problem we're experiencing with low water (including the dredging of the