The failed proposals sought a combined 0.75 mill increase for Petoskey Public Schools, with the new taxes anticipated to raise nearly $1 million a year to build and operate a new football stadium, track and soccer complex on land adjacent to the high school campus. The failed proposals sought a combined 0.75 mill increase for Petoskey Public Schools, with the new taxes anticipated to raise nearly $1 million a year to build and operate a new football stadium, track and soccer complex on...

Instead, our national mythmakers have accentuated the positive to carve the story of the pious Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving out of Plymouth's more complicated, less pure beginnings. The initial exploring party stole a large quantity of corn that the Indians had carefully stored away for the hard winter. In contrast, the earlier Jamestown colony, whose 400th anniversary we commemorate tomorrow, is depicted as a saga of unrelieved degradation and failure, relegated to second-tier...

This initiative also will include the elimination of designated areas outside the hospital where employees, patients and visitors currently use tobacco products. Companies considering retention and recruiting programs that appeal to older workers should explore some of these successful practices: training programs; flexible scheduling options; job redesigns; and targeted recruiting strategies. The rating agencies cited Geisinger's record of solid operational performance of a nationally...

A broken water main initially complicated efforts to put out the fire, but firefighters were able to secure water from nearby Chicago and Oak Lawn. The loss also affects the village, which will lose "substantial" sales tax revenue, he said. The southern lumberyard and building were only slightly damaged, Kitching said, adding thatthe business will be open today. Six-year employee Mike Murawski said a customer walked up to him and asked if he knew the lumber yard was on fire. and drew more...

Peter Ho Davies knows just how it feels to be caught between cultures - and explores the phenomenon brilliantly in his debut novel Liz Hoggard Sunday May 13, 2007 The Observer Growing up in the mid-Seventies, Peter Ho Davies felt both rather exotic and terribly parochial. Peter Ho Davies knows just how it feels to be caught between cultures - and explores the phenomenon brilliantly in his debut novel Liz Hoggard Sunday May 13, 2007 The Observer Growing up in the mid-Seventies, Peter Ho...