Bruce Auerbach News Today

The town’s Affordable Housing Trust plans a thorough “due diligence” study of a 34-acre, $1 million property being offered as a donation by Hans and Kate Morris.

The Select Board will devote this Thursday’s meeting to the concerns of second-home owners, but it will not create a separate advisory committee for seasonal residents.

The town’s advisory Finance Committee threw ice water on the proposal this week, dimming its prospects for Select Board approval.

College of Pharmacy Associate Professor Eric Nybo received good news earlier this year from the United States Patent Office. Equally pleased by the second patent issued solely to Ferris State University are the state-funded mentors and the entities that provided financial support to study and develop a genetically-modified host organism capable of expressing an anthracyclinone or potent chemotherapy drug.