Treasurer’s office flooding a serious issue at Clare County Courthouse
There’s a leak at the Clare County Courthouse but it’s not a person trying to spread information. Instead it’s in the roof and it’s causing endless hassles for Clare County Treasurer Jenny Beemer-Fritzinger as was discussed during Wednesday’s Board of Commissioners meeting. The leak is in the roof in the area of Beemer-Fritzinger’s office. It is severe enough to cause serious flooding within it whenever the area is affected by heavy rain and wind storms. “It’s like a hurricane,” Beemer-Fritzinger said, noting recent storms have swamped her office with literally gallons of water. “It is just crazy.” Oddly according to [...]
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Farwell approves zoning for new business
After hearing concerns from area residents, the Farwell Village Council approved a request to rezone the east side of South Webber Street as “Light Industrial” at their regular meeting August 6. The property, which includes the former VFW building, was zoned Light Density Residential. It was recently sold to Ralph and Christine Whitman who plan to move their Coleman business, Whitman’s to the Village. Carol Raymond, who lives next to the old VFW building, expressed concern that dogs would be kept there. “We already have neighbors with farm animals – goats. They haul their manure down to the river,” she [...]
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United Rescue millage fails
United Rescue Ambulance Service won’t be seeing any extra operating funds in the next few years. The Primary ballot proposal had asked for .9 mills for five years to be used for operations of the service and would have raised $415,030 in 2012. Voters in Franklin, Frost, Greenwood, Hamilton, Hayes and Redding Township said no to the proposal, while voters in Harrison and Summerfield Townships narrowly approved the millage request. Harrison voters approved the request 178 to 162 and Summerfield Township voters said yes in a 45-44 vote. Overall, the eight townships’ voters cast 1,052 votes against the proposal while [...]
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Primary Election results
McClellan will face Wilson in November Of 23,426 registered voters in Clare County, 4,812 or 20.54 percent turned out Tuesday to vote in the Primary election. On the Republican side of the ballot, Mark McClellan was the voter’s choice Tuesday to face Democratic Incumbent John Wilson in his November bid for another four year term as Clare County Sheriff. McClellan collected 58.89 percent of the votes against former Undersheriff Rick Miller in a Primary bid for the Republican slot in the November general election with a vote of 1,487 to 1,032. McClellan retired From the Clare County Sheriff’s Department in [...]
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Klaus, Hovey will face off in November for Probate Judge
Marcy Klaus and Tara Hovey will face off in November’s non-partisan election for the17th District Probate Judge’s seat in Clare and Gladwin Counties. The two attorneys bested former Clare County Prosecutor and Assistant Gladwin County Prosecutor Norm Gage in both Clare and Gladwin County Primary elections Tuesday. The seat on the bench opened up when Judge Thomas McLaughlin retired recently. Klaus collected 1,676 Clare County votes and 1,879 more in Gladwin County for the six-year term. Hovey came in second with 1,310 votes in Clare County and 829 in Gladwin County. Gage took third place with 982 Clare County votes [...]
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