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Crusaders sweep MAC Blue, earn first league title since 2019 BY JONATHAN SZCZEPANIAK jszczepaniak@candgnews.com
MACOMB TOWNSHIP — Macomb L’Anse Creuse High School-North boys swimming has been on a tour of the Macomb Area Conference the past three years. Since winning the MAC White in 2019, where LCN competed for the better part of the last decade, the Crusaders struggled in the White for two consecutive seasons, made a brief sprint in the Red in 2023 and finally dove into the MAC Blue this season. See SWIMMING on page 5A
Photo by Patricia O’Blenes
From left, Vicky Rowinski, director of Macomb County’s Department of Planning & Economic Development; Brian Parthum, an economist with the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments; Thomas Alongi, a partner with the UHY accounting firm; and Ahmad Ezzeddine, vice president for Academic Student Affairs and Global Engagement at Wayne State University, discuss the current state of the economy.
Panelists discuss Macomb County’s economic future BY MARIA ALLARD
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Macomb L’Anse Creuse North freshman Evan Detrick competes in the 500 freestyle at the LCN Invitational Feb. 27 at L’Anse Creuse North High School.
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WARREN — Although inflation has decreased in recent months, “I don’t know if we’re out of the
woods,” said Thomas Alongi, a partner with the UHY accounting firm, in Sterling Heights. “Everything you touch, everywhere you go, prices are up 10% or 20% on everything,” Alongi said. “It’s