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Helping kids find the fairways of life Anyone who has played golf knows the game can be both rewarding and frustrating — a lot like life. As you start each new round, you know you’ll have many opportunities for both success and failure. Each hole presents its own unique challenges that you must overcome. There […]

Nominating petitions are available in three districts for Great Lakes Energy (GLE) members who wish to seek election to the cooperative’s board of directors. Three board positions, each for three years, will need to be filled. Qualifying GLE members who reside in districts 6, 8, or 9 can seek election to the board. Counties by

While most members’ power has been restored following the March 28 ice storm, our work is far from over. We are now transitioning from the response phase to the next stage of recovery and investigation. As part of this ongoing effort, our crews will soon begin cleaning up broken utility poles, damaged transformers, and other

Rural restoration and rebuilding presents unique challenges Like all electric cooperatives, Great Lakes Energy’s roots are in serving the people who live in rural areas.  Electric cooperatives were born in these less-populated areas in the 1930s when farmers and other residents banded together to bring electric service to remote areas that for-profit utilities refused to

GLE lineworkers fuel up outside the Boyne City headquarters before heading out for for another full day of restoration work. Behind the scenes: Fueling the fleet GLE line crews, along with hundreds of contract and mutual aid crews have been working long hours to restore power to the tens of thousands of GLE members who

 Here we are—Monday morning—and our crews, contractors, mutual aid partners, and tree crews have been working tirelessly through the weekend, clearing trees and repairing lines. Despite their hard work, this is an unprecedented event with widespread destruction across our system. As soon as progress is made, additional damage occurs due to the continued strain of