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DECEMBER 11, 2025 • Vol. 37, No. 25
HACKEL LOOKS BACK ON NEW CHARTER’S IMPACT BY DEAN VAGLIA
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CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Though the usual “state of ” address focuses on events and achievements within the past year, the 2025 State of Macomb County speech celebrated 15 years of having a county executive.
Delivered Dec. 3 at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts by Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel, the 15th annual speech focused on how the adoption of the county charter in 2010 allowed Macomb County to transform itself over the following decade and a half. See COUNTY on page 13A
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Macomb County Sheriff’s Office K-9 deputy Koda, a 19-month-old Belgian Malinois, stands with excitement at the Nov. 25 Macomb Township Board of Trustees meeting.
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Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel discusses the transformation of Freedom Hill at the 2025 State of Macomb County event on Dec. 3. Part of that discussion included a look back to the venue’s first concert, which Hackel said he attended.
MACOMB TOWNSHIP — A new deputy has joined the substation in Macomb Township, and he is looking to sniff out crime. Deputy Koda, a 19-month-old Belgian Malinois, was recently introduced as part of the Macomb County Sheriff ’s
Office patrol team and was welcomed at the Nov. 25 Macomb Township Board of Trustees meeting. Koda is paired with deputy Aaron Schmittler — who has been with the office since 2011 — and was added alongside Vader, a German shepherd that works out of Washington Township. Bringing Koda into the township has been a long time coming.