Getting the LEDs in
Scott Cambensy, the city’s director of public works, shows two types of fluorescent ballast lights. The smaller kind, T-8s, emit more light and use less energy than the bigger ones, called T-12s. (Journal photos by Miriam Moeller)
MARQUETTE — Officials from Marquette — the Board of Light and Power’s David Lynch and the city’s Scott Cambensy — are watching the streetlights in Ann Arbor.
In its efforts to save energy, the downstate city is currently testing light-emitting diodes — or LEDs — in its globe streetlights. These components are supposed to cut electricity use in half, according to the City of Ann Arbor Web site. The city plans to replace 1,000 more streetlights with LEDs.
Water withdrawals regulated
May 16, 2008LANSING (AP) — The state Senate voted Thursday to change how Michigan manages large-scale withdrawals from the state’s lakes and inland waterways, over objections that the legislation would not do enough to protect trout streams and other
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May 16, 2008ONTONAGON — Sheriff’s deputies and a dive team are searching today for a person missing after a boating accident on Lake Gogebic Thursday.
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May 16, 2008
MARQUETTE — Possible truck routes through the city of Marquette, including McClellan Avenue and Lakeshore Boulevard, were discussed at a joint meeting of the Marquette City Commission, Marquette Township Board, Michigan Department of Transporta
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