WILLIAMSBURG - Imagine this scenario: You're working for Pegasus Plastics, a local manufacturer. Your boss taps you on the shoulder and says, "We've decided to pay for a booth at the Worldwide Plastics Tradeshow. Come up with a fantastic booth display, some small but memorable...
SUTTONS BAY - Just over a year after an arsonist's fire destroyed the building that housed Hansen Foods in Suttons Bay, the locally-owned grocery store will soon have a home in a new 15,000 square-foot building. Construction is scheduled to begin in just a few...
TRAVERSE CITY - We are a disposable society. Americans produce more per-capita garbage than any other country in the world. Rather than fix a broken washing machine or vacuum cleaner, we simply haul it off to the dump and buy a new one. Often this...
ANTRIM CO. - The Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council is teaming up with the Torch Lake Protection Alliance and Three Lakes Association on a cooperative project to provide on-site evaluations and innovative educational programs on shoreline property management. The Shoreline Stewardship Year 2000 Project...
A series of recent U.S. Supreme Court cases have provided direction on when a lawsuit may be brought by the public to enforce environmental laws.Many environmental laws, both state and federal, include "citizen suit" provisions which allow the public to bring a lawsuit when citizens...
MANCELONA - Despite decades of virtual inactivity, Tar Lake in Mancelona is coming to life following clean-up efforts by the EPA, environmental consulting, and a clear community vision for redevelopment.After three visioning sessions during the past 14 months, "We have an idea of what the...
LANSING - Plans aimed at increasing the number of brownfield redevelopments are making their way through the Legislature.The new proposals would expand the type of property eligible for the program and increase the maximum Single Business Tax credit from $1 million to $30 million per...
TRAVERSE CITY - Merely six months after it kicked off, the Conservation Resource Alliance's River Care Fund has a balance of $60,000, exceeding expectations of everyone involved."We couldn't be more pleased--we had a goal for 1999 of $50,000," said CRA's development coordinator Matt Thomas. "Contributors...
Ever since the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) became effective on Aug. 5, 1993, employers and employees have struggled to understand when it applies and how it's administered. Here are answers to some of the more frequently-asked questions about the Act:1. Does it apply...
Is there a secret formula to finding and keeping employees in the service industry? At a time when the tenure of workers in this sector can be less than four months, why are some local businesses celebrating 5-, 10-, even 20-year anniversaries of front line...
