ADRIAN — The Lenawee Intermediate School District is hosting a legislative forum on education issues at 7 p.m. Thursday at the William J. Ross Education Service Center, 4107 N. Adrian Highway.
When Bellefaire JCB's Monarch School for Children with Autism opened in 2000 in a former cottage, converted bedrooms served as classrooms. Storage closets became art and music rooms, and corridors were narrow with multiple turns.
A few short decades ago, the "store of the future" was a catalog showroom where customers filled out paper forms on clipboards and waited while their products were rolled down the line to the checkout.
The Beck Center for the Arts, the Cleveland area’s biggest cultural institution west of the Cuyahoga River, will stay in its longtime home of Lakewood.
"Actually, you may want to just put those down a minute,'' Tim Brown is telling me, as I peer through binoculars at a cluster of buildings and antennae on a distant ridge. "The locals might get a bit nervous.'' A Ford F-150 cruises by, and the two men inside regard us casually as they pass.