Jeff Dolphin News Today

This story ran in Arizona Highways' August 2015 issue. For the White Mountain Apache Tribe, history lives in the spoken word. Significant events from the past, cultural practices and spiritual teachings are often transmitted and preserved simply by the telling. Among the most treasured of the tribe’s oral traditions is the “wolf song.” 

A multi-year effort of drafting, reviewing, re-drafting and re-reviewing a reworked wind energy ordinance for this township is now heading down the final stretch towards approval. During the May 16 meeting of the Montcalm Township Planning Commission, Commissioners voted unanimously to send an amended version of section 7.24 of the township’s zoning ordinance — otherwise known as Private and Commercial Wind Energy Conversion Facilities — to the Montcalm County Planning Commission for revie...

A member of the Montcalm Township Planning Commission was given the go-ahead to continue discussing and working on a wind energy ordinance after her fellow commissioners determined she does not possess a conflict of interest. During the Planning Commission’s April 4 meeting, it was brought to their attention by a township resident that Commissioner Karon Baird allegedly had a conflict of interest regarding a nearly finished wind ordinance that the Commission has been working on since the summe...