TRAVERSE CITY — Three reporters recently joined the Record-Eagle's award-winning news staff.
Michael Walton and Anne Stanton joined the newspaper in early November. Angie Jackson came aboard in late January.
Walton is from Grosse Pointe and studied at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. He worked on the student newspaper throughout college as a criminal justice reporter, video reporter and video editor. In 2011 he was selected to serve as an intern for a watchdog journalism program at Northwestern, where he primarily researched conflicts of interest amongst state and local elected officials in Illinois.
Walton spent a year as a reporter at a newspaper in Española, N.M., where he covered county government, politics and criminal justice.
In Traverse City his primary coverage assignments include Grand Traverse County government and Traverse City Area Public Schools.
Walton can be reached at 933-1478 or mwalton@record-eagle.com.
Stanton previously wrote for Northern Express, the Sacramento Bee, Traverse Magazine, the Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press, and Hour Detroit. She worked for the Traverse City Record-Eagle in the early '90s.
She has won numerous national and state awards, including the John F. Kennedy award for a Record-Eagle team-reported series on area poverty.
Stanton holds a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Michigan, where she also earned a master's in journalism.
Stanton has also worked as a freelance editor, including assisting her husband Doug Stanton with two best-selling, nonfiction books. She is a co-founder of the National Writers Series, a year-round book festival.
Stanton's reporting assignments include health care, social services and Northwestern Michigan College. She can be reached at 933-1488 or astanton@record-eagle.com.
Jackson graduated from Michigan State University in May with a journalism degree. She joined the Record-Eagle after a seven-month internship with the Grand Rapids Press/MLive Media Group. She previously interned at the Colorado Springs Gazette and wrote for Capital News Service at MSU. Jackson grew up in Rochester Hills.
Jackson is a general assignment reporter. She may be reached at 933-1416 or ajackson@record-eagle.com.
The Record-Eagle has been named the Michigan Press Association's Newspaper of the Year in its circulation category six consecutive years, and seven of the last eight years.
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Victory for medical marijuana patients
Medical marijuana patients and advocates scored a victory after the state’s top court issued a decision on a long-running Grand Traverse County case.
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Parking lot argument chills Bardon's
Robin Bisel and Jean Cline licked ice cream cones at Bardon’s Wonder Freeze off Front Street and wondered how they’d maneuver through traffic when finished with their treats.
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Presidential Scholar has struggled with illness
Nicole “Niki” Tubacki doesn't remember much about her early childhood except for swinging outside in the sun.
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Man said to trade drugs for sex
A man arrested in Leelanau County for violating probation is accused of trading drugs for sexual favors with young women in Missaukee County.
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Car crashes into rocks near house
A Glen Arbor woman told deputies she fell asleep before she ran a stop sign and crashed her vehicle into a row of boulders near an Empire Township home.
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Local educators honored
The Outstanding Educator Award, sponsored by the Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District, the Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce and TBA Credit Union, is given annually to a handful of public, private and parochial educators in the Grand Traverse region.
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Man enters guilty plea in assault
A man accused of beating his live-in girlfriend in East Bay Township pleaded guilty to assault charges.
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Memorial Day-related services in Traverse City region
Memorial Day-related services and programs in the Traverse City region:
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Clearing the Record: 05/23/2013
Because of a clerk’s error, an incorrect address was listed in a news brief in the Sunday Record-Eagle.
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Traverse City steps up parking enforcement
Barb Meredith recently had an expensive downtown Traverse City breakfast, but not from anything on the restaurant’s menu.
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Snyder, GOP lawmakers agree to budget targets
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and leaders of the GOP majority in the Legislature reached a budget agreement Tuesday for next fiscal year that doesn’t include an expansion of government health insurance for low income-adults and puts Michigan’s unexpected surplus toward funding roads and K-12 education.
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TCAPS contract talks continue
Traverse City Area Public Schools educators picketed outside the district’s main office building in a display of opposition to TCAPS administrators’ proposed collective bargaining contract.
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Panera Bread is on its way
A Panera Bread franchise likely will rise in Garfield Township despite what some planning officials consider a stale project design.
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Woman retraces father's steps to Indian marker trees
Dennis Downes traveled 200,000 miles over three decades, a journey to locate Indian trail tree markers around the Great Lakes, including two in Traverse City – one at the Civic Center and another at a Washington Street residence.
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Police looking into assault find 960 pot plants
Investigation into a domestic assault complaint led Antrim County authorities to a "sophisticated" marijuana grow operation and nearly 1,000 plants.
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Man gets prison for heroin possession
An Antrim County man found in possession of about 20 packets of heroin will spend at least 18 months in prison.
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Bear sighted at Mancelona Middle School
Chad Culver, the school's principal, spied the large mammal on Monday about 9 a.m. when he looked out his window as he met with a teacher.
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Property owners sue over flooding
A group of Boardman River property owners filed a lawsuit over removal of the Brown Bridge Dam, saying their property values dropped when the river’s water levels rose.
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TCL&P may spend $15K on land it doesn't want
The city’s electric utility will spend up to $15,000 on a piece of property it hopes to never own — just in case public opposition foils its preferred location for an electrical substation.
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Teens admit to lewd elevator act
Traverse City police are investigating a report of sexual contact between two teens in a Traverse City Central High School elevator.
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Fired Munson clinic employee settles lawsuit
A former Munson Medical Center worker recently settled a lawsuit that alleged her civil rights were violated when she was fired from her job at an HIV-AIDS clinic.
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Free yard waste drop-off offered in Garfield
Garfield Township residents can dispose of yard waste for free starting later this month. No-charge waste passes will be available at Garfield Township Hall starting today through June 4.
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Forecast: More storms followed by cool temps
Meteorologists say to expect more severe thunderstorms coming through the Grand Traverse region.
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TC resident wins $5K Art Van Award of Hope
Cecilia Chesney, executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Michigan, received $5,000 for her organization and was given the chance to compete for an additional $25,000 through the Art Van Charity Challenge.
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Family of woman killed by drunk driver: 'It's just not fair'
Paul Shafer had questions for the drunk driver who killed his wife and mother of his three children. Did he know what it's like to take his children to a graveyard on Mother's Day? Did he know what it's like to have a young daughter ask, "'I don't have a mommy anymore?'"
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