Larry Maltby, (back from left), Larry Sullivan, Mary Kay O’Donnell, (front from left), Valerie Olinik-Damstra, and Kelly Martin are all stakeholders in the Lake Charlevoix plan. The plan aims to improve water quality in the Lake Charlevoix watershed through education and implementation.

Lake Charlevoix watershed encompasses miles
KRISTINA HUGHES NEWS-REVIEW STAFF WRITER
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50-75 years in prison for rapist
A Northern Michigan man who was convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault last month will spend at least the next 50 years in prison.
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John and Debbie Rohe leave for Pennsylvania after 28 years in Petoskey
John and Debbie Rohe, one of Petoskey's best-known and community-spirited couples, are leaving Northern Michigan after 28 years for western Pennsylvania, where John has been asked to serve as program director of a charitable foundation principally involved in land conservation, water protection and other environmental causes.
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War Price on U.S. Lives Equal to 9/11
WASHINGTON - Now the death toll is 9/11 times two. U.S. military deaths from Iraq and Afghanistan now surpass those of the most devastating terrorist attack in America's history, the trigger for what came next.
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Maglev Train Crash in Germany Kills 23
LATHEN, Germany - A high-tech train that floats on powerful magnetic fields smashed into a maintenance car on an elevated test track Friday, killing 23 people and injuring 10 _ the first fatalities on a maglev train.
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Padres' Young Nearly No-Hits Pirates
SAN DIEGO - Chris Young came within two outs of the first no-hitter in San Diego's 38-season history before allowing pinch-hitter Joe Randa's two-run homer in the Padres' 6-2 win Friday night.
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