The murals, from the 1970s, moved to Roosevelt Elementary School after Merrill closed. Haban is the seventh out of eight kids in his family, which moved to Park Ridge in 1951. For 29 years, ...

SAGINAW — The “Turkey Trot” is a pre-Thanksgiving tradition at Merrill Park Elementary School, but the event hasn’t grown old for the school’s 270 pupils, who run a 30-yard sprint ...