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Tractor rolls onto, kills, Dickinson County man

BREITUNG TOWNSHIP, MI--   A Breitung Township man has been killed in a tractor accident. 

Saturday around noon Michigan State Police were dispatched to a residence on Pine Mountain Road on a report a tractor had rolled over. Troopers say Benie Borkowski, 76, was trying to pull out a downed tree that was wedged in another tree when the tractor flipped backwards onto him.

A neighbor helped pull the tractor off Borkowski, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.