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JUNE 12, 2025 • Vol. 37, No. 12
Students raise money for at-risk STARBASE program BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
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 education project turned fundraiser for one of Macomb County’s most notable educational institutions — STARBASE One, located on the premises of Selfridge Air National Guard Base. “I really like it,” Kate Luplow, a fifth grade student in Niskar’s class, said of the auction fundraiser. “I was nervous for it, but it turned out really well.” For those lucky enough to have attended it, STARBASE One is the field trip to end all field trips. The first-in-the-country nonprofit education center has combined science, technology, engineering and mathSee STARBASE on page 17A
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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.
Slides, sidewalks and stalls approved by trustees BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
MACOMB TOWNSHIP — With Memorial Day done and passed, there were several particularly summery agenda items that came before the Macomb Township Board of Trustees on the evening of May 28. From top to bottom the matter that came up the most
was the maintenance of the township’s sidewalks. A public hearing was held, and approval was eventually granted for the maintenance of sidewalks in the southwest of the township — north of Hall Road, east of Hayes Road, south of 22 Mile Road and west of Romeo Plank — with trustees awarding Luigi Ferdinandi & Son Cement Co. a $853,400 contract to perform the work. See TRUSTEES on page 13A
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Sidewalks in the southwest of Macomb Township will be subject to repairs soon after the Board of Trustees approved a $853,400 sidewalk maintenance contract at its May 28 meeting.
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