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Public Schools Of Petoskey
Public Schools of Petoskey is a school district headquartered in Petoskey, Michigan. History Chris Parker served as superintendent until his 2022 resignation. The employees partook in a survey, and the survey concluded that 90% of the employees perceived serious problems to be present in the culture of the school district. The school board made a plan in response to the survey finds and Parker's departure. In 2022 Jeffrey Leslie became the superintendent. He was selected out of three interviewed candidates, which in turn were out of ten applicants. District boundary In Emmet County the district includes, in addition to Petoskey: Bay View, Conway, and a portion of Oden. Townships include Bear Creek Township, Resort Township, Springvale Township, and sections of Little Traverse Township and Littlefield Township. A portion of the district is in Charlevoix County, where it includes Walloon Lake. Townships covered include portions of Chandler Township, Hayes Township, and M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petoskey, Michigan
Petoskey ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat and largest city in Emmet County. Part of Northern Michigan, Petoskey is a popular Midwestern resort town, as it sits on the shore of Little Traverse Bay, a bay of Lake Michigan. At the 2020 census, Petoskey's population was 5,877. History Odawa inhabitants The Little Traverse Bay area was long inhabited by indigenous peoples, including the Odawa people. The name ''Petoskey'' is said to mean "where the light shines through the clouds" in the language of the Odawa. After the 1836 Treaty of Washington, Odawa Chief Ignatius Petosega (1787–1885) took the opportunity to purchase lands near the Bear River. Petosega's father was Antoine Carre, a French Canadian fur trader and his mother was Odawa. Early Presbyterian missions By the 1850s, several religious groups had established missions near the Little Traverse Bay. A Mormon offshoot had been based at Beaver Island, the Jesuit missionaries had been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Littlefield Township
Littlefield Township is a civil township of Emmet County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,978 at the 2010 census. Communities * Alanson is a village on the Crooked River at the junction of US 31 and M-68. * Oden is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) on the north shore of Crooked Lake. It is on US 31 at It is approximately two miles east of Conway. Oden Island is to the south in Crooked Lake, and is accessible by road from the southern side of the lake. * Ponshewaing is a small unincorporated community and CDP on the north shore of Crooked Lake. It is on US 31 at , approximately a mile and a half south of Alanson and one mile east of Oden. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (11.56%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 2,783 people, 1,116 households, and 792 families residing in the township. The population density was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Education In Emmet County, Michigan
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petoskey High School
Petoskey High School is a public, magnet high school located in Petoskey, Michigan. Petoskey High School offers a complementary mix of academic, athletic and leadership opportunities for enrolled students. The alternative public high school in Petoskey is Concord Academy, a K–12 public charter school focused on integration between the arts and academics. History The original building of Petoskey High School was completed in 1914 at the southeast corner of State and Howard Streets in downtown Petoskey. In 1930, the building today known as Central Elementary was added to the high school building as a junior high. In 1966, the current Petoskey High School building was constructed due to extreme overcrowding at the former building, which had since become the junior high school building. In 1991, the junior high (now middle school) moved out of the older building and into a new one near the current high school. In 1999, the old high school building was demolished, leaving Central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melrose Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan
Melrose Township is a civil township of Charlevoix County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,403 at the 2010 census. The township was set off from Evangeline Township by the County Board of Supervisors in 1877. Communities *Clarion is an unincorporated community located within the township at . The settlement began as early as 1874 by John Darrah from Kent County, and his family homesteaded in the area by the following year. He became the first postmaster when the Clarion post office opened on December 8, 1879. It was named after Clarion, Pennsylvania. The community also received a train station along the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad. The post office operated until October 31, 1945. *Lake Junction was a historic settlement that formed around a railway junction that connected the Clarion and Walloon Lake train stations along the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad. The junction appeared in Melrose Township on 1911 mapof Charlevoix County. *Troutdal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayes Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan
Hayes Township is a civil township of Charlevoix County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,919 at the 2010 census. Communities *Bay Shore is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in the northeastern portion of township along the shores of Lake Michigan at . The community also extends east into Resort Township in Emmet County. *Burgess (or Burgess Corner) is an unincorporated community located within the township at . It began as a sawmill settlement in 1877 and was named after mill owner E. H. Burgess. A post office operated in Burgess from February 28, 1877 until July 14, 1904. *Embo is a former settlement within the township about east of Charlevoix. It was given a railroad station along the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, and a post office opened on April 3, 1873. The post office operated only briefly until closing on October 27, 1875. *Success is a former settlement within the township that existed with a rural post off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandler Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan
Chandler Township is a civil township of Charlevoix County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 248 at the 2010 census. Communities * Dot is a historic settlement located within the township. A post office operated here from May 17, 1880 until June 15, 1901. *Spring Vale is a former lumbering community in the southeastern portion of the township near the county line with Cheboygan County. The community began in 1879 by the dominant Cadillac lumber firm Cobbs & Mitchell, owned by Johnathon Cobbs and George A. Mitchell. A post office named Spring Vale opened on May 6, 1879 with George Mohorter serving as the first postmaster, who operated the post office from his general store. After the decline in the lumber industry, the community was abandoned and torn down by 1925. The community appeared on 1911 mapof Charlevoix County. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (0.06%) is water. Demographics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walloon Lake, Michigan
Walloon Lake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Charlevoix County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population of the CDP was 271 at the 2020 census. The community is located within Melrose Township. As an unincorporated community, Walloon Lake has no legal autonomy of its own but does have its own post office with the 49796 ZIP Code. History John Jones, Jr. and his family first settled in the area as early as 1872 along the shores of Bear Lake (now known as Walloon Lake). Jones organized for the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad to build through the area in 1874. The community received a train depot named Melrose, which was named after early local surveyor Mel Rose. The township itself also adopted the name Melrose, but members of the community applied for a post office named Bear Lake. However, there was already a Bear Lake post office in Michigan. The community received a post office under the name Tolcott on October 19, 1897 with Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlevoix County, Michigan
Charlevoix County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 26,054. The county seat is Charlevoix. History 1840s: surveyed and organized as Keskkauko County Between 1840 and 1841, surveyors William Austin Burt, John Mullett and Charles W. Cathcart, surveyed much of Northern Michigan. Cathcart oversaw the internal lines survey for 34N 08W, the region which would later be known as Charlevoix. Mullett and Cathcart laid out many of the townships in the new county including Charlevoix Township. The county was originally organized in 1840 as Kesk-kauko in honor of a great chief of the Saginaw tribe, and name was changed from Resh-kanko to Charlevoix County in 1843.* The county was named in 1843 for Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, a Jesuit missionary of the French colonial era. 1853: Strangites gain power and re-organize Keskkauko into Emmet County In 1847, a group of "Strangite" Mormons settled on Beaver Island and establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Traverse Township
Little Traverse Township is a civil township of Emmet County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,380 at the 2010 census. Communities * Conway is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in the township, on the west end of Crooked Lake on U.S. Highway 31 at . The community is served by a box-only post office with the ZIP Code 49722. *Wequetonsing is an unincorporated community in the township, just east of Harbor Springs on M-119 at . Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (11.79%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 2,426 people, 978 households, and 707 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 1,555 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the township was 96.50% White, 0.12% African American, 1.85% Native American, 0.54% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.12% from other races, and 0.82% f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petoskey News of Michigan.
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Petoskey may refer to a number of articles relating to the U.S. state of Michigan: * Petoskey, Michigan, a city in Emmet County, in the Northern Lower Peninsula. ** Petosegay, an Odawa chief. ** Petoskey Downtown Historic District ** Petoskey Grocery Company Building ** Petoskey High School ** Petoskey Motor Speedway ** Petoskey News-Review ** Petoskey Public Works Utility Building ** Petoskey State Park ** Petoskey station * Petoskey stone, a fossilized coral that is the state stone Leaders of states in the U.S. which have significant mineral deposits often create a state mineral, rock, stone or gemstone to promote interest in their natural resources, history, tourism, etc. Not every state has an official state mineral, rock, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Springvale Township, Michigan
Springvale Township is a civil township of Emmet County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,146 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (4.99%) is water. Portions of Crooked Lake and Pickerel Lake, two lakes in the Inland Waterway connecting to Lake Huron, lie within Springvale Township. These lakes, as well as Berry Creek, which flows into Pickerel Lake, form the northern boundary of the township. Springvale Township forms the southeastern corner of Emmet County, bordering Cheboygan County to the east, and Charlevoix County to the south. The western border of Springvale Township lies just over from downtown Petoskey. Springvale Township contains no state-maintained highways, although US Highway 31 comes within less than a mile from the northwestern corner of the township. C-58 is a county-designated highway that runs west–east across the north of the townsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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