Fife Lake News

Everyone made it out safely of a Kalkaska County home that caught fire early this morning.

The roof over Forest Area High School leaked enough last winter that administrators patched it this summer.

Public transit officials added new stops to public bus routes to Fife Lake and Kingsley.

Conversations are "ongoing and serious" about adding a public library to a west-side elementary school when it is reconstructed next year, Traverse City public school administrators said.

Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 9:52 a.m. The road isn't expected to re-open until next Memorial Day and that means less traffic will be traveling on 131 in areas life Fife Lake in Grand Traverse County.

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Story By Melissa Smith Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 9:52 a.m. The road isn't expected to re-open until next Memorial Day and that means less traffic will be traveling on 131 in areas life Fife Lake in Grand Traverse County.

Bridge work over the Manistee River might be causing closures on US 131 to start in Wexford County...but that means areas north of the closed corridor like Fife Lake in Grand Traverse County could see less traffic.

Posted on Wednesday, September 09, 2009 at 5:41 p.m. Two hundred million dollars for Head Start and pre-kindergarten programs is on the chopping block.

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The Traverse Area District Library has a new leader. The local library's Board of Trustees hired Metta Lansdale, currently the director of the Royal Oak Public Library, to replace retiring TADL Director Michael McGuire.

Cora Wilson is fighting mad. Wilson, who lives along M-186 on Fife Lake Township, is upset because her neighbor's mastiff charged onto her property last month and killed "Bo," her German shorthaired pointer.

Story By Melissa Smith Posted on Thursday, September 03, 2009 at 6:36 p.m. starting next Tuesday, MDOT crews are replacing the bridge.

Matt Maynard, 18, left, of Hesperia gives a free hug to Brooke Smith, 15, of Houghton as friends Peter Van de Roovaart, 18, of Dorr, Josh Vander Ploeg, 17, of Hopkins, Leo Gardner, 16, of Hesperia, and Michael Dykstra, 17, of Hopkins, from left, advertise their free hug service during the first day of the Unity Christian Music Festival on Wednesday ...

Kyrstin Tallman bent down and used a large shovel to scrape sawdust into her steer's pen, her long hair swaying with the effort.

Matt Maynard, 18, left, of Hesperia gives a free hug to Brooke Smith, 15, of Houghton as friends Peter Van de Roovaart, 18, of Dorr, Josh Vander Ploeg, 17, of Hopkins, Leo Gardner, 16, of Hesperia, and Michael Dykstra, 17, of Hopkins, from left, advertise their free hug service during the first day of the Unity Christian Music Festival on Wednesday ...

A Fife Lake man faces his third drunken driving offense. Ronald Dennis Smith, 52, is charged with a felony count of operating under the influence -- his third offense -- and misdemeanor counts of operating with a suspended license, operating a motor vehicle without security and having an open container of alcohol inside his vehicle, court records ...

The Engine Pro ASCS Sprints on Dirt presented by ARP makes its one and only appearance during the 2009 season Friday at the Cherry Raceway in Fife Lake, Michigan.

The archipelago of Malta has coordinated a global campaign to take images of sections of the Moon a s surface as seen from 40 countries, and combine them in this commemorative, symbolic whole called the a oeMoon for All Mankind.a The composite was released today, whichA marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch.

At their Wednesday meeting, the Ferris State University Board of Trustees voted to raise tuition 5.33 percent for the upcoming 2009-2010 school year.