HARRISON – Lowering mileage Clare County pays employees for work-related travel and extending office hours Thursday evenings in order to shut down government offices on Fridays were ideas county commissioners tossed around at their third budget work session Wednesday.
Nearly 30 Clare County government offices found out Friday they may have $833,335.45 less to work with [...]

HARRISON – Members of The Forgotten Eagles, a veterans support group, stopped in Clare County Wednesday, Aug. 5, to place a remembrance wreath at the War Memorial on the lawn of the county government building in Harrison.
Kim “Stub” Welter of Mount Pleasant and Dennis Lamb of Caro asked the public to reflect on the sacrifices military [...]

HARRISON – An accident that resulted in the death of a 49-year-old Harrison woman when her car collided with a front end loader remains under investigation.
Clare County Sheriff John Wilson responded by email to The Clare Sentinel that he cannot comment on further accident details as of yet on the accident due to the ongoing [...]

HARRISON – Two cases of whooping cough have been reported in Clare County in June.
Dr. Robert Graham, medical director for the Central Michigan District Health Department, said that they had five cases in January, one in April and two in June.
“We’re seeing a huge increase in the number of cases,” Graham said. “From my nine [...]

     CLARE – Doug Randle’s happy demeanor turned solemn last week recalling the day he was stripped not only of a title but of a passion he held for 26 years.
     In February the Clare native lost his job as fire chief he spent most of the last eight years doing and he was kicked [...]

HARRISON – Mid Michigan Community College’s increased enrollment has led to the creation of a weekend course program.
President Carol Churchill said that they are doing this for the first time and are hoping to help a variety of people in the process.
“What we are trying to do is cohort kind of program so the same [...]

HARRISON – The ballooning expenditures in September Clare County departments racked up the last two years best not be repeated this September, Administrator Bill Newkirk is warning department heads.
In a memo dated Aug. 3, he advised supervisors and elected officials no purchase is allowed without prior approval using the purchase order process.
“Critical purchases only will [...]

CLARE – While the exact impact of the economy on real estate in Clare County may not be determined, area Realtors are in agreement that there has been a definite change in the market.
“There’s been a significant change,” said Wayne Terpening, broker and owner of ReMax Brookside.
“The market is definitely down, but it is still [...]

HARRISON – A 49-year-old Harrison woman passed away Wednesday at a Grand Rapids hospital from injuries sustained in an accident when her car collided with a front end loader.
Names are not yet being released by the Clare County Sheriff’s Department.

HARRISON – Harrison’s ROTC program will now be available through the Career and Technology Education program for all students in the Clare-Gladwin RESD.
Superintendent Thomas House of Harrison Community Schools said it is going to be open to five districts now instead of just one.
“It was our board’s decision to explore that,” he said. “It was [...]