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OCTOBER 31, 2024 • Vol. 36, No. 23 • candgnews.com
SPOTLIGHT ON SENIOR LIVING
SETTING UP ESTATE SALES 18A
Board approves $3.4 million water project BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
MACOMB TOWNSHIP — With pumpkins adoring the meeting hall at the last gathering before Halloween, the Macomb Township Board of Trustees approved an extensive set of water improvements at its Oct. 23 meeting. Set to cost $3.4 million with work beginning in 2025, the project will upgrade or add water infrastructure across the township. “With Garfield (Road) being completed we need to install some hydrants along Garfield,” Macomb Township Land Development Director James Van Tiflin said. “There were no hydrants before (because) the water main was going through farm fields. We have a couple subdivisions that still have 6-inch water mains in them that were installed in the 1960s, so those are in need of replacement. Then we’ve got a couple of loops we need to make to connect essentially dead-end water mains, so we have more system reliability.” The board’s approval begins the design and permit-seeking stages of the process, which will then be followed by having the project sent out for bids. Van Tiflin told trustees the projects have been bundled together in order to make the project more attractive to contractors, as some of the smaller projects have had a difficult time attracting bidders.
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What’s all the Hoopla about?
L’Anse Creuse seeks improvements, maintenance with bond BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
Planning application fees Trustees approved an overhaul of the fees schedule for the Planning and Zoning Depart-
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — After failing to secure approval for a bond earlier this year, L’Anse Creuse Public Schools is returning to the voters with an adjusted bond proposal this November. Set at $188.7 million and scaled back from the May election’s $330 million proposal, the bond will be used to pay for facilities and technological upgrades across the district. The bond will not affect millage rates. “This bond is covering the critical needs of the district as far as infrastructure, basic HVAC, roofs, things of that nature,” Assistant Superintendent Kathy Konon said. Along with infrastructure upgrades, the bond will pay for security upgrades across the district’s buildings, improved technology in classrooms across the district, improved fields and playgrounds, the purchase of trailers and equipment for bands, new school buses and the replacement of worn-down features within the district’s buildings. Improvements targeted by the bond come from a needs assessment performed in September 2023 ahead of the May 2024 bond proposal. While the district receives funding from the state, Superintendent Keith Howell says these funds are for operations rather than capital improvements and maintenance.
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ABOVE: Costumed attendees at the Macomb Township Halloween Hoopla take to the recreation center dance floor on the evening of Oct. 18. BELOW: Attendees of the Halloween Hoopla at the Macomb Township Recreation Center look on from the front row of the Jason Magic show on the evening of Oct. 18.