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Oak Grove to explore bringing broadband access to the town
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The Oak Grove Town Council has authorized Mayor Adam T. Holland to sign a memorandum of understanding with V1 Fiber to complete a needs assessment study and begin applying for funds to implement affordable broadband internet coverage for all citizens of the town of Oak Grove.
“This is huge for our citizens and our towns future in the 21st Century Economic Environment,” Holland said in a news release. “Reliable access to high-speed internet is equivalent to the interstate highway system and access to rural electric service in the 1950’s. If we want to position ourselves for growth both in population and economic development, we must have the services at 21st Century Employers and future residents need to be successful in their occupations and quality of life expectations.”
Grand Rapids Business Journal Keystone Pharmacy’s Thomas A. Magnifico has been inducted as a fellow with the American College of Apothecaries. Magnifico has more than 30 years experience as a pharmacist, working in a breadth of settings from health systems to retail and with a strong background in administration and management. His current focus is as a veterinary compounding specialist.The ACA was founded in 1940 to educate, mentor and train pharmacists. ACCOUNTING
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Scott Stancill, senior accountant.
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Middletown officials may consider striking treasurer post from city charter
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Middletown Charter Revision Commission members met April 13 to discuss a variety of issues, including thresholds for bond referendums, the mayor’s salary and elimination of the treasurer’s position.Screenshot / WebEx meetingShow MoreShow Less
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MIDDLETOWN The Middletown Charter Revision Commission voted unanimously to recommend elimination of the treasurer’s post in 2023, a job one member calls “redundant.”
City leaders can choose to pass or reject any recommendations the charter review panel makes when it deliberates in May.
Treasurer Steven Kovach, who couldn’t make the meeting, submitted a letter explaining that the post oversees the finance director and mayor in a mechanism aimed at avoiding conflicts of interest.
Aging hazard dams forced a reckoning in Michigan this year
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
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LANSING, MI They say you shouldn’t let a crisis go to waste.
Well, there’s been a few of those in 2020. In Michigan, it was also the year aging hazard dams forced a long-overdue reckoning among state regulators.
This fall, a group of experts in river ecology, civil engineering, dam safety and other aspects of environmental and energy policy have taken the crisis maxim to heart as they flyspeck the regulatory structure around an overlooked and under-funded area of the state’s water infrastructure.
The goal is to overhaul the state’s dam safety and regulatory protocols, and hopefully avoid another catastrophe like the one on May 18 in Edenville, when a decrepit hydroelectric dam collapsed and unleashed a 500-year flood that displaced 10,000 people during a pandemic and caused about $200 million worth of damage in three counties.