Sailing teachers, extracurricular adaptations, parking deck demolition decision, and more
Front Page, Week of July 31
Quite a bit of video this week. July has been crazy busy, professionally and personally. I’m having to put off July’s Legislative Update/Tales from Lansing until next week just because I ran out of time.
The mental health story series is coming along. I got some wonderful, unexpected interviews and now I just have to figure out how to reorganize the story for them. Expect a couple more parts in August, and hopefully finishing up in September.
Teachers take to the Inland Seas to learn new tech
Geo-Investigations Project Website: https://sites.google.com/remc1.org/geosummer2021/home
A complete geo-investigation presentation from 2020, focused on the Gratiot River County Park:
https://sites.google.com/clkschools.org/gratiotriverparkrocks
For more about the ship:
https://www.tallshipsamerica.org/vessels/inland-seas/
Inland Seas’ website:
https://schoolship.org/
About the 360 degree cameras:
https://theta360.com/en/about/theta/v.html
New problems call for new solutions
Hancock Public Schools adapts old extracurricular programs, launches new ones, to adapt to virus precautions
By Mark Wilcox, for Late Edition
For many, 2020-21 was the strangest school year and most challenging ever for students.
The most frustrating aspect for all concerned was the unknown and the fact that everything could change in a minute. Jesse Kentala is the principal at Hancock Middle School. He said all year long students and their parents had questions.
"Will there be a basketball season? How about spring concerts? What about graduation? There was just never a firm timeline at the state or national level and information changed constantly.”
He said the key to survival was that everyone had to learn to be adaptable and more importantly, creative.
Denying the wind, Co-op calling “dibs”
The Inside Scoop, and a photo of my cat
For my new subscribers, ‘The Inside Scoop’ is the editorial and opinion page of Late Edition. This week, I’m squeezing some real news about the Scotia Wind Project and the Keweenaw Co-op in there because I don’t have time to get sources other than myself or government documents together, so it’s not really journalism.
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Single-track mind
Local group teaches kids about the basics of mountain bike riding and trail maintenance
Houghton’s parking deck is coming down, the only question is when
I know this isn’t exactly surprising, but the official decision has been made now. Without deciding on when it will happen or what will replace it, the council has concurred with the planning commission’s recommendation and approved the teardown of the parking deck over Lakeshore Drive.
You can hear the discussion, and read the summary of the rest of the meeting on the Houghton City Council story page for this week.