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RETRO RIDES REV UP LOCAL CAR SHOWS 16A MAY 28, 2025 • Vol. 37, No. 11
College rejects Clinton Township power line proposal BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
Jeffrey Steele, attorney for Macomb Community College, critiques a map provided by Clinton Township at the May 21 MCC Board of Trustees meeting.
WARREN — The hopes of Clinton Township officials and residents were dashed May 21 after Macomb County College trustees unanimously rejected a request to support an alternate route for a power line project. Taking place at a meeting of the MCC Board of Trustees, the township’s request for the college to approve using its land at its Central Campus along Dalcoma Drive for power lines serving the expansion of Henry Ford Macomb Hospital was heard. Electricity transmission company ITC is currently requesting the township approve a power line route that follows 19 Mile Road, which has come under fire from residents of the Westchester Village Condominiums, where the lines would reportedly hang around 50 feet from residences. After initial remarks from township representatives — Clinton Township Supervisor Paul Gieleghem, attorney Jack Dolan and Trustees Julie Matuzak and Shannon King — and residents pleading their case and asking for the college’s cooperation as an act of friendship between the public bodies, MCC attorney Jeffrey Steele and the board spent roughly the next hour dismissing and dismantling the township’s request. “Clinton Township came to us with a two-and-a-half-page letter,”
Photo by Dean Vaglia
See POWER LINE on page 6A
Council approves lighting amendment for Sheetz BY ALYSSA OCHSS aochss@candgnews.com
FRASER — At their council meeting on May 8, the Fraser City Council voted to approve a request by Sheetz to amend the rezoning conditions for lights originally set in the first agreement. The motion was amended to allow a maximum of 20 foot-candles of illuminance under the Sheetz gas pump canopy under the condition that the agreement be signed
and returned to the city within 30 days, to be held in escrow and subject to city review within the ordinary course of business. They also changed an ordinance to make 20 foot-candle canopy lighting the maximum for all gas stations going forward. The ordinance motion was approved in a 6-1 vote with Councilwoman Patrice Schornak opposed and the Sheetz motion was passed in a 5-2 vote with Mayor Michael Lesich and Schornak opposed. See SHEETZ on page 13A Photo by Patricia O’Blenes
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