With the celebration of Earth Day just last week, it is a good time to discuss the formation of the USDA Soil Conservation Service (known today as the Natural Resources Conservation Service) and the Conservation District (Wexford CD and the Missaukee CD).
The beginning of the soil conservation movement in the United States was started by Hugh Hammond Bennett in the early 1900s. Hugh Hammond Bennett, the Soil Conservation Serviceâs first Chief and the Father of Soil Conservation. A maverick and visionary, Bennett knew that productive soils would help farmers, ranchers and forest landowners protect their livelihoods. Even then, Bennett, a scientist, knew good science must be the foundation for voluntary conservation on private lands.
Editorial
Bill would accelerate schools resegregation
Accusations of racism roiled an Indiana House debate last month and rightly drew attention to the uncivil atmosphere of this year s session. But the controversy shouldn t serve as cover for the bad piece of legislation that precipitated the discord. The bill could hasten the resegregation of schools already occurring under voucher and charter programs and sharpen the economic divide among the state s three school systems.
House Bill 1367 would establish a pilot program allowing a single township in St. Joseph County to withdraw from the South Bend Community School Corp. for annexation by the rural, much-smaller John Glenn School Corp. While it currently affects only those two districts, opponents rightly noted that once approved, the legislation could serve as a mechanism for localities statewide to pull out of one district and join another. Imagine Cedar Creek Township, home to the Leo-area schools, leaving East Allen County
3 years later, family still waiting for answers in disappearance of Justin Holt
Justin Holt s family and friends are still waiting for answers 3 years after he went missing.
and last updated 2021-01-08 20:18:24-05
MUSKEGON COUNTY, Mich. â It s been 3 years since Justin Holt disappeared from his home in rural Muskegon County. His friends and family are still looking for answers.
âConfusing. I donât understand how he could just disappear, and nobody knows nothing and no clue of what happened to him,â said Justin s brother, Brent Holt.
Holt hasn t been seen since Jan. 3, 2018. Spats of blood outside his home in Cedar Creek Township were found. Detectives with the Sheriff s Office searched near Clear Lake 3 times. Despite the efforts of investigators and loved ones, there have been no new clues into what happened to Holt.
MANTON â The final straw for Scott Chittle was when basketball was canceled this season because of COVID-19.
Chittle, who coaches basketball, baseball and football in a travel league for elementary-age kids in the Cadillac area, has strong feelings about the importance of staying physically active and tries his best to impress those values upon his two children, 11-year-old Lillian and 12-year-old Cooper. I m not one of those video game parents, Chittle said. When I learned that basketball wasn t going to happen, I thought, the heck with it, I m going to do this.
Earlier this month, Chittle began building a skating rink in the yard of his Manton home at 208 North Division St. His goal was to create a rink not only for his children, but also for anyone else in the community to use, at no cost.