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Sterling Heights moving forward with indoor pickleball facility BY BRIAN WELLS bwells@candgnews.com
STERLINGThe city of Sterling Heights is moving forward with plans for a new pickleball facility. At its Sept. 2 meeting, Parks and Recreation Director Kyle Langlois presented a proposal to purchase property at 35630 Van Dyke Ave., near 15 Mile Road, to construct a new $10 million pickleball facility. The planned facility will have nine pickleball courts, six tournament-ready table tennis courts, gathering areas with a cafe, meeting and party rooms, locker rooms and other amenities. The facility comes as part of the Pathway to Play and Preservation millage, which was approved by voters in November 2024. The investment comes in at $9.7 million, $2.5 million of which comes for the purchase of the property and $7.2 million for the design and construction of the facility, Langlois said. “The community has been eager to learn where this facility would be located, and this site gives us the opportunity to deliver a premier space that combines accessibility, sustainability and quality,” Langlois said in a statement. See PICKLEBALL on page 5A
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SEPTEMBER 17, 2025 Vol. 36, No. 19
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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. Photo by Patricia O’Blenes
LUCIDO CONTINUES PUSH FOR CHILD SUPPORT SPECIALTY COURT
HEARINGS WOULD BE LAST CHANCE FOR UNPAID CHILD SUPPORT PROVIDERS BY DEAN VAGLIA dvaglia@candgnews.com
MACOMB COUNTY — 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 oper-
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ate 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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