FRANKENLUST TWP, MI — Mid-Michigan patrons are in full holiday mode, with businesses positioned to benefit from the season.

Every five years, a small group of biologists and environmentalists assemble in a large corner office in Springfield with long glass windows. Inside that room, they weigh in on the fate of every ...

But not for South Dennis’s Kevin Curtin, 35, who became an assistant baker at Bentley University at just 14 years old, while ...