CLARE – Lower rainfall amounts in September convinced Clare City Commissioners to extend summer sewer credits through September.
Sewer credits are generally offered to residential customers who irrigate lawns and gardens, wash vehicles, and fill swimming pools without injecting water into the city’s sanitary sewer system for treatment.
City Manager Ken Hibl said revenue loss equates to [...]

CLARE – Ideas and expectations for the historic Clare railroad depot will air Tuesday, Sept. 29, at a special public forum 7 p.m. at the Clare Public Safety Building across from City Hall.
The city planning commission agreed recently to try and resurrect the possibility of restoring the depot after ideas were discussed and abandoned by [...]

HARRISON – Clare County Commissioner Lynn Grim had the facts but not the votes Thursday.
At a special budget meeting, Grim argued to retain a solid waste and recycling program and to ensure parks and recreation activities were headed by a paid part-time coordinator next fiscal year.
But the recycling program that Grim said benefited townships by [...]

CLARE – The Tobacco River Cooperative is sponsoring a raffle available for anyone who participates in the youth hunt Saturday, Sept. 26 and Sunday, Sept. 27.
Cooperative President Steve Newkirk said that any youth who participates who get a doe during the Youth Hunt can register for the raffle at one of three locations with the [...]

HARRISON – Two Farwell men were arrested and arraigned on numerous felony charges in connection with 15 home invasion complaints.
The men also are charged in connection with four complaints of unlawful driving away of motor vehicles, according to Clare County Sheriff’s Department officials.
Clare County Sheriff John Wilson said the incidents occurred in Garfield, Surrey and [...]

MOUNT PLEASANT – An accident that resulted in the death of an infant child shortly after birth and injuries to two Farwell residents and four other people remains under investigation, according to police.
The Isabella County Sheriff’s Department responded to the two-vehicle accident on North Meridian Road and East Baseline Road at 5:01 p.m. Wednesday.
A 1994 [...]

HARRISON – This month Clare County will invest up to $20,000 and collaborate with the Clare-Gladwin RESD to link the county building with the sheriff’s department with broadband technology.
A need for reliable Internet communications became urgent at a special meeting Thursday.
Keith Yats, central dispatch director, and Jim Neff, county information technology specialist, convinced five commissioners [...]

THE CLARE SENTINEL - OUR VIEW - OPINION
     As some of our readers may recall, the Clare Police Department got a citizen complaint of possible shots fired inside the city limits around 11 p.m. on Sept. 18, 2007.
     Patrolling alone that night, Chief Dwayne “Midge” Miedzianowski noticed a man walking out in a field with [...]

By Russ Pulliam
     Crowded out by many other anniversaries this year, “Ben Hur” is looking for applause on the other side of the Atlantic. This classic story of a Jewish prince’s encounter with Jesus Christ is on stage in London this week, including 46 horses for the chariot race.
But in Indiana, where Lew Wallace wrote [...]

    CLARE SENTINEL - OUR VIEW - OPINION
     Until this newspaper recently requested some public documents from the Clare County 911 Emergency Services Department, little did we realize how well compensated its director, Keith Yats, apparently is.
     While public officials’ salaries are public records (as they should be since they are funded by taxpayer dollars), we [...]