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JULY 23, 2025 Vol. 38, No. 15
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BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
MOUNT CLEMENS — After about 50 years, the industry that put Mount Clemens on the map will return. Known as the “Bath City” due to its historic mineral bath industry, the Mount Clemens Planning Commission approved the city’s first dedicated mineral bathhouse since the 1970s on July 8. “It’s really exciting,” said Lois Lombardo, owner of the last mineral water well in Mount Clemens.. “It feels like this yearlong dream of building and doing this bathhouse from when I acquired the well. It’s like the big next step and once we got approved, I was like, ‘Wow, this really going to happen.’” Approved to be built on the site of Lombardo’s well at the corner of Park and Jones streets, the approved site plan for the Olympia Bathhouse calls for a 3,712 square-foot structure with eight bathing rooms (one being wheelchair accessible), as well as a massage room with two tables. The
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A rendering of the Olympia Bathhouse, which could be the first dedicated bathhouse in Mount Clemens since the 1970s.
Onlookers can see boats decorated in strings of lights and colorful decorations at the Parade of Lights in Harrison Township on Aug. 2.
Parade of Lights ready to set sail BY ALYSSA OCHSS aochss@candgnews.com
HARRISON TOWNSHIP — The Parade of Lights is back this year to support another awesome charity and spread light and joy on Aug. 2. Julie Angst, Lambrecht Marina manager and Parade of Lights chairman, said she took over the
event in 2014 and started raising money for charity. “Every year we pick a different 501(c)(3) to receive the proceeds from the parade,” Angst said. The charity this year is I Heart Dog Rescue and Animal Haven which is a no-kill shelter for homeless dogs and homeless cats. Dianne Reeves,
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