Saturday, May 11, 2024
Since 1854 — News from Montcalm County and Ionia County, Michigan
The Cato Township Board voted to appoint an interim treasurer at a special meeting Thursday evening, and also voted to request an attorney opinion regarding allegedly improper bonus payments to township board members.
Joyce Grieser resigned without notice at Monday’s regular township board meeting. She had been treasurer for the past 12 years.
While officers with the Greenville Department of Public Safety have long been well-prepared to serve and protect the community at street level, they are now aiming to take to the sky.
On Tuesday, members of the Greenville City Council voted unanimously, with Councilperson Claude Johnson absent, to approve the purchase of an unmanned aerial vehicle, more commonly known as a drone.
Faced with the decision of selecting Montcalm Community College’s next president, members of the MCC Board of Trustees interviewed three finalists during three special meetings this week.
Those three out-of-state finalists, narrowed down from a field of 49 candidates, made their case this week to the board, as well as to faculty, students and members of the community, as to why they believe they are the right fit to become the college’s seventh president.
The Planning Commission held a public hearing Wednesday and then approved an ordinance that will revamp zoning in the city’s residential areas, eliminating the R-1, R-2 and R-3 designations and replacing them with low-, medium- and high-density residential zones. Next, the ordinance will head to the Ionia City Council for final approval at their June meeting.
This township has a new supervisor who is hoping to unify the community which has seen its share of turmoil in recent years. Leighton “Leigh” Murray was appointed the new supervisor of Belvidere Township in a 3-1 vote by the township board on Wednesday evening.
With a unanimous vote from the Montcalm Area Intermediate School District Board of Education, a second attempt at passing a bond proposal will appear before voters on Aug. 6.
A special event application was eventually unanimously approved, but the Belding City Council took exception to the actions taken by the adult organizers of Belding’s youth baseball and soccer leagues.
Special event applications are usually approved within a few moments, but the application from the Belding Youth Ball League (BYBL) generated some vexation among councilpersons at Tuesday evening’s meeting.
An effort to install a sewer system at several local lakes is meeting with some pushback from lake residents.
Gabe Krum, on behalf of the Clifford Lake Sewer Committee, attended the May 1 meeting of the Douglass Township Board to request that the board put together a request for proposal to be offered to prospective firms to complete a feasibility study for installing a sewer system at that lake. The sewer committee also wants the township board to designate the service area for the proposed sewer system.
With near-daily trips up and down the handful of blocks that make up downtown Greenville, Paul Sischo is well aware of the variety of businesses that call the district home.
The executive director of the Chamber of Commerce is hoping to spread more awareness of those businesses through a new event — “Rediscover Downtown Greenville.”
Near the start of Monday night’s Cato Township Board meeting, the supervisor acknowledged that neither the clerk nor the treasurer filed for reelection this year.
Treasurer Joyce Grieser did not respond to this until near the end of the meeting when she announced she was resigning “effective immediately” without any advance notice.
