Lakeshore’s state academic championship for 8th grade reading began long before the MEAP tests were placed on rows of desks in the Stevensville school. For years, the district, along the Lake Michigan shore in Southwest Michigan, has resisted a statewide cost-cutting trend to eliminate librarians. When the winning eighth-graders were in seventh grade, Lakeshore created […]
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SW Michigan: 'Best of both worlds'
Beaches, festivals and farms are luring Marian Cioe from the streets of Chicago to Michigan’s southwestern shore. Forty-five years after first visiting Southwest Michigan on a business trip, the 66-year-old nurse plans to “live happily ever after” in the Great Lakes State. Cioe is just part of a real estate trend that has set Southwest […]
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