CLARE – Two candidates have filed to fill an unexpired term on the Clare Board of Education, vacated with the recent resignation of Karen Keesecker.
Public interviews are 7 p.m. Wednesday at the high school library.
Steve Stark previously served four years on the school board. Although his application didn’t say, Stark is a partner in Clare [...]

     CLARE – Out of the 25 slashes Clare officials are making to next year’s school budget, the one disturbing 14-year-old Laura Walton the most is Number 23: Reduce one elective position at the Middle School.
     The position to be eliminated belongs to Jason Koch. And the program going away is Clare Middle School’s Community [...]

By John Raffel
The Clare Sentinel
     CLARE — Clare’s baseball team, ranked sixth in the state, improved its record to 32-6 on Saturday, June 5, with two more wins and a Division 2 district title.
     The Pioneers beat Houghton Lake in the first game 10-3 and Farwell 11-4 in the finals. In the first game, Tyler Wentworth [...]

 
Rep. Tim Moore, R-Farwell, decided not to vote on school retirement incentive package, due to a potential conflict of interest associated with him becoming an elementary principal
     CLARE – Clare Superintendent Greg McMillan didn’t want to predict how many teachers and school employees would be coaxed into retirement by a retirement incentive package the Michigan Legislature approved [...]

 
     CLARE – An incident earlier this month at an out-of-town baseball tournament has resulted in a police investigation and the cancelation of the remainder of the Clare High School junior varsity baseball team’s season, according to school and police officials.
     Clare High School Principal Lee Turner said the incident remains under investigation by police [...]

CLARE – The Clare School Board held their election of officers and re-elected the four former officers to their positions for another year.
At their meeting on Monday, July 20, the board voted Tom Weaver as President. Ben Browning as Vice-President, Carol Santini as Secretary and Sue Murawski as Treasurer.
The board set their meeting time as [...]

CLARE – Clare’s School Board voted 5-1 to accept the low bid from Roslund, Prestage & Company, PC, at their meeting Thursday, June 25, reversing its previous vote earlier this month.
At their previous meeting, the board members voted to reject the bid from Roslund and accept the bid from their current auditing firm, Weinlander [...]

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Clare Public Schools News Release - June 10, 2009
School Funding Update
The State of Michigan has a $1.7 billion dollar shortfall for the upcoming 2009/10
fiscal year, including a $732 million dollar deficit in the school aid fund.  These numbers
are in addition to shortfalls in the current year of approximately $1.3 billion statewide
with $425 million in [...]

NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 11, 2009
From: Ghazey Aleck 989-386-2699
PRIVATE CITIZEN POSTS CHECK REGISTER ONLINE
Clare resident and local Attorney, Ghazey Aleck, has taken it upon himself to post the
check register for Clare Public Schools online at www.clareschoolsexposed.com.
Aleck send a letter on April 14,2009 to the Clare Board of Education asking them to post
its check register [...]

CLARE – Clare school Superintendent Greg McMillan isn’t disappointed nor does he feel slighted the majority of the school board ignored his fiscal advice.
“In my job you can’t take things personally,” said the Clare superintendent of four years.
A week after the Clare Board of Education voted 3-2 to rehire an auditing firm against McMillan’s and [...]