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Warren residents dealing with flooded yards claim drain isn't working
(CBS DETROIT) - Some Warren homeowners are dealing with a flooded mess in their yards due to heavy rainfall and, in a certain spot, a drain that isn't doing much draining.Warren resident Caitlyn Calcaterra was forced to pump pooling water down her driveway and into the road drains after heavy rainwaters filled her and several other Macomb County backyards over the holiday weekend."At first, it was maybe a couple of puddles here or there that would dry overnight. Now, I have to rent equipment from the local hardware store just to get any sort of water out within a day...
Aug 6 Ballot – Avondale School District Bond Proposition
Aug 6 Ballot – Avondale School District Bond Proposition. Auburn Hills, Bloomfield Township, Rochester Hills, Troy, MI – Shall the Avondale School District, County of Oakland, State of Michigan, borrow the sum of not to exceed One Hundred Fifty Million Dollars ($150,000,000) and issue its general obligation unlimited tax bonds, in one or more series, to pay the cost of the following projects to create a modern learning environment for students and for health, safety, security, energy conservation and other purposes: – Erecting, completing, equipping and furnishing a new early childhood center; – Erecting an addition to R. Grant Graham Elementary School and remodeling, equipping and reequipping, furnishing and refurnishing school buildings and additions, including for modernizing instructional, fine arts and theater spaces, playgrounds and other facilities and erecting, equipping and furnishing a transportation maintenance facility; – Acquiring, preparing, developing and improving sites for school buildings, including athletic fields, playgrounds and other facilities and the purchase of school buses; – Acquiring and installing technology equipment and technology infrastructure, including for health, safety and security, in school buildings and other facilities?
Letters to the editor: May 29
This letter to the editor is in response to the article titled, “Kersten earns ‘Spirit of MTA’ award,” that was published in the May 8, 2024, edition of The Voice. Resident rebuttal. It is reelection time in Chesterfield Township; look forward to more articles in The Voice, videos, and photo ops on Chesterfield Township’s website dedicated to Brad Kersten’s reelection.
Aug 6 Ballot – Addison Township Proposals for Fire, Ambulance, and Library
Aug 6 Ballot – Addison Township Proposals for Fire, Ambulance, and Library. Addison Township, MI- Township Addison Township 24-1 Fire Department Capital Improvements. Shall the previous voted and approved millage increase in the tax limitation (imposed under Article IX, section 6 of the Michigan Constitution) totaling .75 mill, (.75 per $1,000.00 taxable value) which have been reduced to .7130 mill as required by law with millage rollbacks and which the millage expires 2024 be renewed and increased back to .75 mills (.75 per $1,000.00 taxable value) for levy in the years 2025-2030 inclusive for a period of six (6) years, for Fire Department Capital improvements within the Township? This funding is for the sole purpose of providing Capital improvements to the Fire Department of Addison Township, and is the only funding for Capital improvements for the Fire Department of Addsion Township. If approved and levied based on the 2024 taxable value, it is estimated this millage will raise in the first year, three hundred fifty-five thousand, six hundred and four dollars ($355,604) for the Fire Department Capital Improvements.
New Baltimore recognizes National Gun Violence Awareness Day
New Baltimore officials are inviting citizens to join them in wearing orange on June 7 to help raise awareness about gun violence. City council members on May 13 adopted a proclamation declaring the first Friday in June to be National Gun Violence Awareness Day in the community. The proclamation aims to honor and remember all victims and survivors of gun violence and to declare that the country must do more to end the public health crisis.
Reynoldsburg City Council approves 2025 budget, Harrison Township economic development pact
Reynoldsburg City Council approved its final 2025 budget Tuesday evening, as well as a joint economic development district agreement with Harrison Township and a contract with an engineering firm connected to the construction of its new public service building. The roughly $31-million budget was preliminarily approved in December 2023. But because the...
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