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JANUARY 14, 2026 • Vol. 38, No. 1
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B & B COLLISION The city of Fraser received a clean audit for the fiscal year running from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025. Photo by Patricia O’Blenes
BY DEAN VAGLIA
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CLINTON TOWNSHIP — The Clinton Township Board of Trustees approved a merger of the township’s Recreation Department and senior center operations at its Dec. 22 meeting. Approved unanimously amid a packed board chamber at the Robert J. Cannon Civic Center, the merger aims to reduce
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FRASER RECEIVES CLEAN AUDIT BY ALYSSA OCHSS
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FRASER — At its final meeting of 2025, the Fraser City Council received a clean audit report from the contracted firm of Yeo & Yeo CPAs & Advisors. According to the presentation at the meeting on Dec. 11 by Alan
Panter, a principal with Yeo & Yeo, the city’s audit was given an “unmodified opinion,” which is the highest level of assurance that everything was filed correctly. The fiscal year goes from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025. “That’s why your expenditures are a little higher this year and your fund balance went down,” Panter
said. “But that was a planned spending of the fund balance there.” He started off the presentation by stating the audit went very well. “The city was very well prepared when we arrived and we were able to complete our audit procedures efficiently,” Panter said. He acknowledged last year’s auSee AUDIT on page 12A
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Township Supervisor Paul Gieleghem speaks through a presentation about the administrative merger of the senior center and Recreation Department at the Dec. 22 Clinton Township Board of Trustees meeting.