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SEPTEMBER 17, 2025 • Vol. 45, No. 21
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Women’s Civic League to sponsor candidate town hall BY ALYSSA OCHSS aochss@candgnews.com
The Women’s Civic League of St. Clair Shores is sponsoring a Town Hall for residents to meet their candidates for City Council in the upcoming election.
The event will be at 7 p.m. on Sept. 22 at the St. Clair Shores City Hall located at 27600 Jefferson Avenue. There are six candidates running for council: incumbents John Caron, Dave Rubello and Candice Rusie, and challengers Adura Cal-
houn, Dominic Roy Neumann and Bryan Owens. Carol Kapusnak, a Women’s Civic League member, said they try to host a town hall every time there is an election and that it has been going on for quite a while. She said there is a reasonable turnout each
time, but they’d like more participation. “A lot of people look at it later because it’s recorded later,” Kapusnak said. “This year, there may be more people because of the candidates we have.” Kapusnak believes that it is a
comfortable atmosphere for residents to ask questions. “We try to make it very casual so to say so no one is intimidated to ask questions,” Kapusnak said. Judge Mark A. Fratarcangeli has emceed the event for around See TOWN HALL on page 18A
Lucido continues push for child support specialty court
Work within the office of Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido has already recovered $3.3 million in unpaid child support in the last two years by simply seeking compliance from payers. The child support specialty court would take the mission of securing compliance further by bringing on Michigan Works! Macomb/ St. Clair to help place unemployed child support payers into jobs or job training programs with court supervision.
Hearings would be last chance for unpaid child support providers BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
Following a meeting with judicial officials on Sept. 4, Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido is moving forward with the creation of a child support specialty court within the 16th Circuit Court in Mount Clemens. Under Lucido’s plan, the proposed court would operate similarly to other specialty courts within the 16th Circuit by directly handling cases where child support payers are in arrears. The goal of the court is to get compliance from the payers, thereby helping reduce the amount of unpaid child support across Michigan. “Today, the state of Michigan has $5.6 billion in outstanding uncollected child support, of which Wayne County is about $3.5 billion — more than half,” Lucido
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See CHILD SUPPORT on page 8A
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