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Trustees vote against ITC, hospital power lines BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — After a long, hot night in council chambers at the Robert J. Cannon Civic Center, Clinton Township trustees voted to deny a power
line project along 19 Mile Road on June 2. First brought to the board in 2024 with the purpose of connecting the Henry Ford Macomb Hospital expansion to the power grid, the project became embroiled in controversy after residents of the Westchester Village Condominiums took issue with
the expected route as it would suspend the lines roughly 50 feet away from their homes. What followed were months of outreach, experiments, Freedom of Information Act requests and lobbying from the township to back an alternative route that would send the lines along Dalcoma Drive on land
owned by Macomb Community College — an alternative that was handedly rejected by the college’s trustees on May 21. “I started this process looking at the issue knowing we need power to the hospital,” Township Supervisor Paul Gieleghem See TRUSTEES on page 6A
Students raise money for at-risk STARBASE program BY DEAN VAGLIA
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CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP — In a dimly lit gymnasium inside Francis A. Higgins Elementary School on May 30, fifth grade students fueled by orange juice and sugar cookies celebrated the end of their school year in only the most exciting way possible: simulating the real estate market. Equipped with slideshows and miniature homes of their own design, the students of Brooke Niskar’s class in the L’Anse Creuse Public Schools district are upselling their peers’ parents on the opportunity to take home their final elementary school project. Yet this is not some elaborate lesson in business studies or anything of the sort, but the final step in a months-long STEM edu-
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LEFT: Higgins Elementary fifth grade students Bryce Sampier, left, Christian Mortinger and Kate Luplow pose with their solar home project. The students’ class auctioned off their solar home projects to raise money for the Selfridge-based STARBASE STEM education program. ABOVE: A student at STARBASE has a turn at a flight simulator.
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