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LEFT: Public Hearing attendee Nancy Stadler and Mount Clemens City Commissioner Erik Rick look over the North Main Street road diet’s proposed pedestrian safety measures before a public hearing on Jan. 7. BELOW: Concept renderings show South Main Street’s intersection with Roberston Street, comparing the twolane road diet to the current four-lane construction of the road.
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MOUNT CLEMENS — With Macomb Place reopened and the Downtown Revitalization Project nearing completion, city officials are turning their attention to Main Street in Mount Clemens.
BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
The city held a public hearing at City Hall for the Main Street Revitalization Project on the evening of Jan. 7, bringing representatives from city engineering firm Anderson, Eckstein & Westrick, Inc. to hear from residents about the conceptual designs for a road diet on Main Street north and south of Cass Avenue. Hearings were handled separately for the two ends, as the
Public hearings held for Main Street overhauls BY DEAN VAGLIA
Trustees approve recreation, senior center merger 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 the costs of running the departments as separate entities. The plan for the merger as developed by professional services firm Plante Moran would be to create the “Senior and Family Recreation Department” run by a single managing director while two assistant directors would respectively manage activities associated with the former Recreation Department and the Clinton Township Senior Adult Life Center. The move is expected to save the township $203,000 per year and bring the operation of its senior and recreation activities in line with how they are handled by surrounding communities. “The intent is to create a streamlined (department),” Township Supervisor Paul Gieleghem said. “One director, assistant director of each unit. We did something simi-
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JANUARY 14, 2026 Vol. 39, No. 1