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A federal grant will help farmers in portions of southern Lenawee County buy equipment to keep sediment and phosphorus from their fields out of the River Raisin.

JACKSON, MI – Three Jackson County graduates are among six students nominated by U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg for appointment to U.S. military academies.

Walberg, R-Tipton, represents Michigan's 7th District.

The Jackson County students receiving nominations from him and offers of admission to a U.S. military academy are:

Legislation proposed Thursday by two Michigan members of Congress would require the Veterans Affairs hospitals to report every three months on surgical infections and cancellations.

Officials with the Veterans Administration Ann Arbor Health System met with two members of Michigan's congressional delegation Tuesday about problems with contaminated surgical instruments that have caused delays in some surgeries.

Seventh district Michigan Congressman Tim Walberg saw one of his co-sponsored bills pass the house last week amid a series to fight opiod and heroin drug abuse.

"There have been more victims in this battle than should be called criminals," Walberg said. "What we have been doing has not been working. There is a better way."

Every two weeks an average of one person dies of an opioid overdose in Jackson County.

That number surprised a number of people at a heroin forum being held today at the Jackson High School library.

On average, one person dies every two weeks from a heroin overdose in Jackson County.

Christopher Risner was a user.

"I definitely have the disease of addiction," said Risner.

Six months after worries about particulate matter on surgical equipment temporarily stopped surgeries at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Ann Arbor, a congresswoman said Friday that some of those same concerns are being raised again, with surgeries being moved or delayed.