CLARE – Local historian Forrest Meek salutes Clare County’s 20th century military veterans the best way he knows how – writing a book.

Photos of military veterans wanted for high school bulletin boards
 
HARRISON – Veterans Day is Nov. 11, but the director of Veterans Services in Clare County is planning an observance already.
Renee Haley is soliciting photographs of all Clare County High School graduates who served in the military, whether peacetime or wartime.

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– Clare County’s desire to have federal stimulus dollars to retrofit the courthouse with green technology is fading.

It’s been six weeks since county Administrator Bill Newkirk submitted three proposals to the state, targeting work at the jail and courthouse.
Grant awards are announced but none for this county.
By the time money is dispersed to Lansing, [...]

By Dave Isaac
Tea, anyone?
“When in the course of human events ” Sadly, not one person in a hundred could tell you why
those words sound vaguely familiar (or should). They are the first words of the Declaration of
Independence, a statement by a people pushed to the edge. Today, we are pushed not quite that far, but
still [...]

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – A former Clare resident recently was promoted to Marine Corps colonel and represents the United States in his position in Afghanistan.

HARRISON – A 40-year-old Harrison woman remains lodged in the Clare County Jail on felony charges that she used H & R Block customer identifications to obtain loans.

HARRISON – A 37-year-old Harrison man was arraigned Tuesday on charges that he violated the Law Enforcement Information Network dissemination rules.

HARRISON – Two Harrison men remain lodged in the Clare County Jail after their arrest for conspiring to commit two bank robberies.

HARRISON – Mandates state lawmakers impose on county offices may drop to a trickle in Clare County as departments struggle to reduce spending, County Administrator Bill Newkirk said at a county commission meeting Wednesday, March 18.

CLARE – Clare Public Schools Board of Education members decided to table a proposal for a potential new building for Pioneer High School.
At their meeting Monday, March 16, several board members expressed concern about the lack of estimate for the architectural cost.
“I should have asked when I was one the phone with him,” Superintendent Greg [...]