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CALEDONIA, Mich. Selena Johnson of the Northern Michigan University track and field team picked up an event win while the team finished fourth overall at the end of the final day of the 2021 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Conference (GLIAC) Outdoor Track & Field Championship on Friday, hosted by Davenport University.
The fourth-place team finish for the Wildcats saw them finish the meet with 69 points. In the last four GLIAC Outdoor Championships NMU has placed in the top five. That streak ties the program best that began in 2008-09 and went until 2011-12.
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Freshman Selena Johnson impressed in her first-ever GLIAC Outdoor Championship meet with a first-place finish in the Triple Jump. Her mark of 11.85m placed her at the top of the podium for the event and earned the NMU team 10 points.
Shenendehowa grad Jesse Porter comes up short of Olympic qualification in Greco-Roman wrestling | The Daily Gazette
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May 8, 2021
Shenendehowa High grad Jesse Porter fell three wins shy of qualifying for the Summer Olympics in Greco-Roman wrestling during competition at the World Olympic Games Qualifier in Sofia, Bulgaria on Saturday. (Photo courtesy Jesse Porter GoFundMe)
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Jesse Porter’s dreams of reaching this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo fell three wins shy of becoming reality.
Porter, a 2015 Shenendehowa High School graduate and winner of the U.S. Olympic Trials in Greco-Roman wrestling’s 77-kilogram weight class, needed to reach the finals Saturday at the World Olympic Games Qualifier in Sofia, Bulgaria in order to lock up his spot in Tokyo.
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MARQUETTE The pool has been narrowed down to one finalist in the search to find the city of Marquette’s next manager after candidate John Kramer withdrew his application from consideration, city officials confirmed Friday.
Kramer was named one of two finalists under consideration for the position at a Marquette City Commission special meeting Tuesday night. The other finalist named Tuesday is Karen Kovacs, city administrator for downstate Milan.
Kramer was named one of six finalists to advance to the public interview stage along with Kovacs, Dan Stoltman, Richard Downey, Sean Hobbins and Gary Simpson. The city received a total of 40 applications for the position after a national search that began earlier this year.
Michigan’s redistricting commission prepares to take in-person input on redrawing political maps
Posted May 08, 2021
Michigan Redistricting Commission set times and dates for statewide public hearings at a March 30, 2021 meeting.
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The commission is also officially taking map suggestions through a new online comment portal.
Michigan’s Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission a group of five independents, four Republicans and four Democrats randomly selected from a pool of thousands of applicants is constitutionally obligated to redraw the state’s Congressional, state House and state Senate political district maps based on the latest U.S. Census data and a myriad of other criteria, including communities of interest.