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OCTOBER 15, 2025 Vol. 45, No. 23
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Voters to decide on police and fire millage BY ALYSSA OCHSS aochss@candgnews.com
See MILLAGE on page 23A
Photo by Patricia O’Blenes
Downtown St. Clair Shores is decked out in its scary best for the Skelebration later in October.
HAVE SCARY GOOD TIME AT SKELEBRATION BY ALYSSA OCHSS
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Get out your best costumes and get ready to have a scary amount of fun at the Downtown St. Clair Shores Skelebration. Amy O’Brien-Kravitz, a sales manager
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at Roy O’Brien Ford, said in an email the event is from noon to 3 p.m. on Oct. 25. She said this event is all about the kids and a social district follows the event right after. Shops in the downtown area will have seasonal specials and activities. The event will end with a costume parade for the kids
that will end in a pumpkin patch. Dance performances, Trunk-or-Treat and more will be there for kids to enjoy. “Enjoy live music and food trucks, throughout the District’s common area,” O’Brien-Kravitz said in the email. See SKELEBRATION on page 26A
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On Nov. 4, St. Clair Shores voters will be asked to approve or reject a police and fire millage put on the ballot by a majority vote of the City Council earlier in the year. According to the ballot language on file with the Macomb County clerk’s office, the public is being asked to renew the original 4.4192 mils and an added 0.50 mils for a total levy of 4.9192 mils. The document stated this will raise $10,950,730 in the first year for use by the St. Clair Shores Police Department and the St. Clair Shores Fire Department. At their meeting on July 21, council members and the mayor were asked to approve one of three options for the millage. The other two options were to keep the millage rate the same at 4.4192 mils or to raise it back to 5 mils, generating around $11,130,600 in the first year. The ballot language was approved