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Deadline on student loan savings nears

Attention college students, parents and new grads: It's time to stop trashing those student loan consolidation letters along with the credit card offers.

They're trying to save you thousands of dollars.

There is no catch here: Anyone holding a federally-backed student loan — Stafford loans for by students and PLUS loans for parents — will see their interest rates rise by 1.84 percent as of July 1.

The good news is that these loans can be consolidated and the current rate locked in if borrowers act by June 30.

"The bottom line is that students ... need to be contacting their lender immediately," said Shann Doerr, financial aid director at Quincy University. "It can make a huge difference."

Lenders are offering a dizzying array of consolidation packages, some with rates as low as 2.5 or 3 percent.

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School health aide writes memoir

CADILLAC - A two-time breast cancer survivor, Carol Perrin took a short break from work to discuss the publication of her new book. She wears a T-shirt with the word SURVIVOR stamped boldly across the back.

But Perrin survived more than cancer. She made it through a troubled youth littered with drugs, alcohol and failed relationships, into an adulthood blessed with a strong marriage, two children and a meaningful career.

Her book is an inspirational memoir of that journey.

As she folded laundry at the Mackinaw Trail Middle School, where she's cleaning school computers, she talked about the message of her book.

“My main message," she stated, “is that our youth are in a lot of trouble.

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