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Counties get money to develop Iron Belle Trail

LANSING, MI (AP)--   Michigan has awarded nearly $250,000 in grants in 15 of the state's counties to help develop a new hiking and bicycling trail stretching hundreds of miles.  

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says that each of the 16 grant recipients was awarded up to $25,000 for planning, engineering and design projects along either the hiking route or the bicycle route of the trail, called Michigan's Iron Belle Trail.

A list of projects is posted online.

The trail will run from Belle Isle Park in Detroit to Ironwood in the western Upper Peninsula. Portions already are open in the Lower and Upper peninsulas. The trail will provide a 1,259-mile hiking route and a 774-mile bicycling route.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.