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JULY 18, 2024 • Vol. 36, No. 15
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A sign outside of the Chippewa Valley Schools administration building advertises school of choice programs. Voters in the Chippewa Valley district will determine on Aug. 6 whether the district’s non-homestead millage can continue to be levied.
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CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Voters in the Chippewa Valley school district will soon be tasked with determining whether a key revenue source will be allowed to continue. Chippewa Valley Schools has placed a proposal on the Aug. 6 primary election ballot asking voters to allow the district to renew its nonhomestead millage. The text of the proposal reads as follows: This proposal would renew and
restore the authority of the School District to continue to levy the statutory limit of 18 mills on all property, except principal residences (owner occupied homes) and other property exempt by law, for general operating purposes, which currently expires with the School District’s 2024 tax levy and allow the School District to continue to levy the statutory limit of 18 mills in the event of future Headlee rollbacks of up to 1 mill. This authorization will allow the School District to continue to receive revenues at the full
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MOUNT CLEMENS — It is Friday, May 17, and Lois Lombardo is in the fight of her life. The owner of Olympia Salon & Spa on Cass Avenue is trying to work her new water pump in a shed on the other side of the city, but nothing is going right. She flips switches, turns valves and repositions a hose in hope of getting the pump to send its water to the surface. Suddenly, a breakthrough: The pump roars to life and bathes Lombardo and the rest of the shed with dirt-brown water stinking of rotten eggs, a scent that hangs in the air for the next hour. From the senses alone, it is hard to believe
anyone could find value in extracting such a liquid, but Lombardo knows what she has. It is the reason she came to Mount Clemens, and it is the key to how she plans to revive the century-old industry that put Mount Clemens on the map.
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Mount Clemens is known as Bath City, or at least it is to its residents. Anyone trying to hunt down the signs of a citywide bathing industry have to look hard to find anything beyond baked-in echoes to verify this odd claim to fame, and even then, all they have to work with is a preserved pump in Clemens Park and a historical marker on the east side of Select Specialty HosSee BATH CITY on page 16A
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Image provided by the Crocker House Museum and Gardens
The Park Hotel as depicted on a postcard from the early 20th century. Its location is currently home to the Park Place Towers and a garage housing the old hotel’s well.