A quick look at the best high school football player from each Midwest state in the 2016 class.(Come back to freep.com this week for more Best of the Midwest coverage!)Michigan: Donnie CorleyWR, 6-2 1/2, 187 pounds, Detroit KingBest moments: Army All-American, 2015 National Player of the Year finalist, 2-time All-State Dream Team, Mr. Football Award, 2015 USA Today All-USA Michigan 1st Team; 59 receptions, 1,408 yards 16 TDs? 10 INT, 1 defensive TDCoach Ty Spencer, King assistant: “Donny is an amazing footballer and a great kid. What makes him such a special player is his work ethic and selfless attitude.…
Author: Cecil Larson
Hanover Township is unveiling a new emergency services station Saturday A dedication and ribbon-cutting event was held Saturday for the City of Hanover's new emergency services station at 300 S. Route 59 in Bartlett. The station serves as headquarters for the City of Hanover Emergency Services Department and its volunteers. It has 12 vehicle bays, training and communication rooms, a kitchen, overnight accommodation and equipment rooms, according to a press release. The department responds to a wide range of emergency and non-emergency situations, either assisting primary emergency responders or operating independently during natural and man-made disasters, the release said. Among…
But East Coast governors say that after a decade of cleaning up their air — by, for example, putting “garbage” in smoke stacks and requiring vehicle emissions tests, which are not mandatory in many other parts of the country — they have squeezed all pollution they can get out of their economies. While Northeast air is often still so polluted that it violates federal law, governors say that's because of a problem they can't control: the wind in the continental United States that typically blows from west to east. At the same time, Midwestern states are enjoying the benefits of…
Announcement of opportunities with the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center To support the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center, CRFS will hire 5 new positions in 2024. These positions will create opportunities to connect available resources with food and agribusiness entrepreneurs throughout the region. The Michigan State Center for Regional Food Systems (CRFS) is the lead organization for the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Centerwith network coordinators in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin (more information about the Center can be found below). As one of the 12 Regional Food Business Centers Funded by the United States…
Slipknot's nine masked men in white jumpsuits took the stage at Pinnacle Bank Arena with a roar Thursday, excited to be — in a way — home.“It's so good to be back in the Midwest,” singer Corey Taylor said, later adding, “Slipknot is 2½ hours from here (in Iowa). That's why Slipknot is what it is, because we were born and raised in the Midwest.”What Slipknot is musically is an aggressive heavy metal band that has evolved beyond its nu metal roots and become one of the genre's most inventive groups — slipping in anthemic, melodic passages here and touching…
The explosion of sports gambling content in mainstream media is about to take one of its biggest steps yet, and you can bet it will hit Cardinals, Blues and SLU basketball fans.Fox Sports Midwest owner Sinclair Broadcasting has reached an agreement with casino operator Bally's Corporation in which FSM and more than 20 other regional sports networks it owns nationally will be rebranded, likely as “Bally Sports” or something similar. It was not immediately clear if the stores will continue to be sub-branded locally as “Bally Sports Midwest” in that region, or when the change will take place.The New York…
Planned Parenthood will consolidate some of its clinics and eliminate dozens of locations in the Upper Midwest, the organization's leaders announced Tuesday Across Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and the Dakotas, 36 positions will be eliminated from Planned Parenthood's North Central States, including nine incumbents and 27 open positions. The decision comes 19 months after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion and returning the power to regulate abortion to individual states. Since then, two dozen states, including the Dakotas and Nebraska, have moved to ban abortions or further limit the procedure to earlier in…
Detroit — Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg of Indiana touted his Midwestern roots and general election prospects Sunday in Detroit, pledging to appeal to “Republicans of conscience” if he wins the Democratic primary.Speaking at a small-donor fundraiser in Detroit ahead of this week's presidential debate, the South Bend mayor stressed the importance of winning back voters in Michigan and other industrial Midwest states that helped send GOP President Donald Trump to the White House in 2016.”The message to them is, 'The president of the United States thinks you're a clown,'” Buttigieg said. “He thinks he can make you believe the biggest…
A gas leak last spring and flooding discovered in late December forced the Natrona County School District to change its schedule for asbestos removal at Midwest School, but officials say the work will be done this summer and won't be delayed the reopening of the school.The district had originally planned to remove some of the asbestos from the building, in a process known as abatement, last summer. But in late May, students and staff detected an odor in the Midwest that forced the evacuation. Subsequent tests revealed high levels of carbon dioxide and volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, and the…
When FedEx Custom Critical moved to Richfield Village last year, it left a 262,000-square-foot structure in the heart of the Green in need of a large tenant or tenants.That problem will get new attention after the sale of the Boettler Road property to Green Ambassador Midwest, a company formed to acquire the massive structure.The building, depending on who's counting, is the second largest — or tied for largest — in the city. The city puts the square footage at 259,000 square feet. The buyer lists it at 262,000.Great potential for jobs, income from income taxThis size of an office/industrial structure…