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FEBRUARY 19, 2025 • Vol. 37, No. 4
Goo blast summary committee approved CLINTON TOWNSHIP ALSO HALVES VOTING PRECINCTS BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — As prosecution against the owner of the Goo Smoke Shop is set to continue later this month, Clinton Township trustees approved their own investigation of sorts along party lines. The Clinton Township Board of Trustees voted 4-3 on Feb. 10 to establish a committee to develop a summary of the events surrounding the Goo Smoke Shop fire and explosions. Initially proposed at the Jan. 27 board meeting, the proposal’s creator, Trustee Dan Kress, told the board the group would develop a summary for the benefit of the three newest part-time trustees. “It’s a summary with three board members that we put together,” Kress said. “There’s no public input. There’s no public hearing. Because it’s a three-person committee, it’s not an open
Clinton Township trustees approved the creation of a committee to develop a summary of the Goo Smoke Shop/Select Distributors fire at the Board of Trustees meeting on Feb. 10.
See TRUSTEES on page 10A
Photo by Dean Vaglia
1905 FIRE NEARLY DECIMATED FRASER BY ALYSSA OCHSS
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FRASER — In 1905, a fire broke out in downtown Fraser, something that nearly decimated the small town. Marti VanEenenaam-Iwanicki, a member of the Fraser Historical
Commission, said according to the Mount Clemens Register, the newspaper at the time, the fire broke out in the back barn of Frank Spence’s meat market. It nearly wiped out the business section of the town. “Four buildings were consumed and at a time the entire village was threatened,” the newspaper
said. “The fire department of Detroit was appealed to but just as help was about to start it was seen that the local firefighters had the blaze under control and the call for engines was canceled.” The fire caused no casualties to the town of 230 people at the time. See FIRE on page 11A
Photo provided by Photo provided by the Fraser Historical Commission
A 1905 fire decimated Fraser’s business district, which at the time included a meat market, a barn and a hardware store.
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