LANSING – Clare County and the rest of the 97th District will be without a representative in the Michigan Legislature until the next state representative elected at the November general election takes office in January.
     Tim Moore, the Farwell Republican who served in office since January 2004, resigned Friday, the district office confirmed.
     In his [...]

         FARWELL  – In economically challenging times, Farwell Schools were able to end the 2009-2010 school year with a fund balance of more than $1 million.
     Superintendent Dave Peterson said the final budget amendment for the 2009-2010 school year was approved. “We had a balanced budget for 2009-2010,” he said.
     Additionally, the fund balance is [...]

An account has been set up at Chemical Bank for donations to help the family with hospital and funeral expenses. There also is the Matthew R. Meyers Fund, c/o Community Alliance Credit Union, 37401 Plymouth Road, Livonia, MI 48150. Matthew’s funeral took place at Farwell High School June 3. Burial was in Lincoln Township Cemetery, [...]

     CLARE – The Saline-based Renosol Corporation has moved its PVC plastisol compound operation from the Clare Industrial Park to its Bay City plant.
     Gary Maki, who was plant manager at the operation here, is now operations manager for the process in Bay City.
     Maki is president pro tem of the Farwell Village Council.
     The [...]

By John Raffel
The Clare Sentinel
     BEAVERTON – Farwell’s softball team celebrated a Division 3 district title on Saturday with a 1-0 upset victory over Beaverton  in the title game.
     “This is extremely exciting for this team,” said Farwell coach Steve Klinge. “This has been the goal the whole season as it always is and I [...]

     HARRISON – Two Farwell men recently were sentenced on an attempted assault charge as part of a plea agreement to close the matter without a second trial.
     The men faced charges that accused them of abusing a now 7-year-old Harrison boy. Jury deliberations lasted for more than two days before the hung jury resulted [...]

     FARWELL – A 39-year-old Lake man recently entered a plea in connection with his alleged involvement in making threats that caused a local school to be locked down in March, according to court officials.
     Darrel Lee Runyon was arraigned on Tuesday, March 16 in 80th District Court on two charges of telecommunications service – [...]

“He talked to a lot of different schools trying to make the right choice for himself on what he wanted to study and where he wanted to play. I know baseball was a large part of it as well.”
Farwell Eagles head football coach Scott Barnhart

By John Raffel
The Clare Sentinel
     FARWELL - The chance to play [...]

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     FARWELL – Farwell Area Schools Superintendent Dave Peterson addressed some comments that had apparently been publicly made by community member Teresa Ziegler.
     “It’s a shame that people buy into rumors and things that are not true,” he said during the board of education’s meeting Monday, April 5. “Nothing was more pure than the hiring [...]