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Green infrastructure job trainings aim to support growing field

By Elinor Epperson, Michigan Public

The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; Michigan Public, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; and The Narwhal who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.

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London teen’s blue-box mining strikes community chord: ‘Pretty cool’

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A London teenager who got the third degree for picking through blue boxes to help save up for his education has received an outpouring of community support, his mother says.  For more than three years, 14-year-old Brise Refflinghaus, who has autism, has scoured the curbside collection bins in his east London neighbourhood on recycling day, […]

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Dog breeder opts not to testify at first degree murder trial

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ST. THOMAS – The once-high flying dog breeder Boris Panovski won’t be testifying at his first-degree murder retrial. “The answer from Mr. Panovski is no,” defence lawyer Margaret Barnes told Superior Court Justice Marc Garson on Friday when asked if the 80-year-old Scarborough man, who has pleaded not guilty to first degree murder and attempted […]