The 2007 elections will be held on November 6, and voters have the opportunity to change the makeup of both the Clare City Commission and the Clare County Board of Commissioners.
Additionally, the city of Clare and Grant Township both have millages to decide on, the latter of which will reshape the way the township pays [...]

CLARE – A community depends upon a strong financial foundation. To help ensure the best support, local banks have to find the best to represent the voice of the community and to be their guide. Clare Chemical Bank, 807 N McEwan St ., president Jim Allen said an understanding of the community is one of [...]

Clare teen killed in Wisconsin
CLARE – Funeral services were held on Friday, Oct. 26, 2007, for Chester Coblentz of Clare.Coblentz, 19, and his friend, Dennis Beechy, 18, Trenton, Mo., were reportedly struck Oct. 23 by a 2001 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, operated by an as yet unidentified 26-year-old driver. The pair were on their way to [...]

CLARE – A community depends upon a strong financial foundation. To help ensure the best support, local banks have to find the best to represent the voice of the community and to be their guide. Clare Chemical Bank, 807 N McEwan St ., president Jim Allen said an understanding of the community is one of [...]

DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas – A Clare County resident recently received a significant U.S. Air Force award.U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Marshall Bonham, formerly of Grant Township, was honored and recognized this summer as the recipient of the distinguished John L. Levitrow Honor Graduate Award.This is the highest award presented at the Airman Leadership [...]

HAMILTON TWP – A deliberately-set fire destroyed two mobile homes on Sunday, Oct. 14, and now two juveniles may have a day in probate court for their part in it.
Clare County Central Dispatch received a call at 11:50 a.m. on Oct. 14 reporting a fully engulfed structure fire at the corner of Hamilton Drive and [...]

HARRISON - The recent attempt by a local group to recall three Harrison Community Schools Board of Education members has resulted in responses from the board members named in the recall petition.
Board Treasurer Karen Zaborowski, one of the three board members named in the recall and a member of the school board for two years, [...]

HARRISON – Termination of parapros’ jobs was put on hold by a preliminary injunction that has been granted in a legal case pitting two employee unions against the Harrison Community Schools, The Clare Sentinel learned on Friday.
Judge Thomas R. Evans of the 55th Circuit Court, in an opinion and order dated Thursday, Oct. 17, granted [...]

CLARE – A September incident at the Lone Pine Motel in which two Clare City police officers shot and killed a suspect has made some progress, but the investigation is still under way.
City Manager Ken Hibl said in his city manager’s report for the Oct. 15 Clare City Commission meeting that the Michigan State Police [...]

    HARRISON - The Harrison Fire Department may be on its way towards receiving a new vehicle.
The Harrison City Council voted to allow Fire Chief Patrick Agin to apply for a US Smokeless Tobacco Company grant for a Polaris Ranger ATV.
The ATV is intended to be used at wildfires and in search and rescue operations.
The [...]