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Keep Turkeys Flying out of Glen’s
Each year, Community Spirit Food Bank produces 10- to 15-serving Thanksgiving gift packs for area families facing a lean holiday. This year, as may be expected with our continued crap economy, the demand is very high. Melanie Herron, a nurse at Paul Oliver and a Community Spirit volunteer, fielded a total of 70 requests last More
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Why Aren’t the Lights On?
Elbertians, navigating the array of road construction disruption since June, watching the stimulus-funded beautification of Old M-168 unfold, have been eagerly awaiting one key feature of the improvements: LED lamplight! But with work completed ahead of the October 30 deadline, many have been wondering, Why the heck aren’t the lights on yet? They will be More
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Foghorn: Trees on Old M-168
Why are most of the gorgeous newly planted trees right under the power lines, when the old beauties had to be removed because they were right under the power lines? Send anonymous or signed rants, gripes, queries, or even kudos to elbert.alert@gmail.com, subject line “Foghorn.” More
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Don’t Care Where You Get Your Appetite, as Long as You Eat Locally
The local food movement has made its way to Northern Michigan. You may be asking yourself, “What is the local food movement?” In a nutshell, it is a locally based effort to make food grown and processed locally available for purchase. So instead of your food traveling via container ship from a foreign country 3,000 More
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First Meeting of the Elberta Arts Council
The Elberta Arts Council met Saturday, November 6, at 1 pm, at the Conundrum Café, to brainstorm ideas for community arts projects and programs. Elbertians and Elberta fans are encouraged to submit ideas to the new Elberta Arts wiki, located at www.elbertaarts.wikispaces.com. To add content, simply join the wiki with your own username and password. More
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Elberta Village Council Election Results
Tuesday, November 2, saw big changes to the Elberta Village Council. The Elberta Alert was on the scene at the library on Frankfort Avenue when the polls closed at 8 pm. The trusty election workers had put in a very long day and were probably only too happy to read the results and be on More
