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Ontonagon County named best value in Michigan

By JAN TUCKER

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ONTONAGON — Ontonagon County is the place to get the “most bang for the buck” in Michigan, according to study by Smart Asset, a financial technology company.

In addition to property taxes, the study analyzed the quality of local schools and the local crime rate of every county to determine where people were seeing the most value.

On a scale of 1 to 10, Ontonagon schools ranked 10. Officials at Smart Asset calculated the average mathematics and reading language arts proficiencies for all districts in the country and within each state. The schools were ranked f...