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Limited access to health care contributes to higher rural death rates | Great Lakes Echo

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Rural Michigan residents who suffer from a chronic illness that requires specialized treatment may have to drive hours to receive care.

That barrier to access to health care is one reason rural county death rates tend to be higher than their urban counterparts, according to Robert Howe, the medical director of the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department.

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Community input sought for cleaned-up lakes, shorelines | Great Lakes Echo

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It’s taken over 30 years and $80 million to restore Muskegon Lake and a few nearby smaller bodies of water.

Decades of pollution and rapid urbanization created ecological problems so severe that the lake was designated a “Great Lakes Area of Concern” by the U.S. and Canada in 1987.

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Museum talk will delve into local diaries for peek into past

Rural history professor Catharine Wilson will talk about 19th and early 20th century daily life in Grey-Bruce and elsewhere in Southern Ontario as revealed in diaries. The University of Guelph professor emeritus, who founded the online Rural Diary Archive, will speak at the Bruce County Museum on April 6 from 2 to 4 p.m. She […]

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Province likely to hear many Grey-Bruce concerns at ROMA

Grey-Bruce politicians will head to Toronto this weekend to meet fellow rural municipal leaders and try to get provincial ministers and their assistants to see things their way at the annual Rural Ontario Municipal Association conference. It’s an opportunity discuss common causes and plead cases to those with the power to help – even if […]