Breaking
By Emily Votruba The following article is an editorial. I have tried to present the facts as I know them in as unbiased a manner possible, but I do have a bias, as you will discover below. Please weigh in with your comments! An auditor from the State of Michigan
Community Alert
Draft Minutes County Commissioners Meeting Minutes Sept 24 2013 Agenda
Community Alert
The final draft of the Village of Elberta Parks and Recreation Plan for 2009–14 is now up on the Village website. As soon as the official notice is published in the Record-Patriot this Wednesday, the official five-week public comment period begins. This is a very important document for the
Culture Bluffs
This perfect automotive donut was executed at the intersection of Washington and Bigley sometime in the middle of a mid-August night. It remains visible today. A similarly circular vehicular sketch was created at the intersection of Bigley and Lincoln. Perhaps the artist would like to see a statue of Allen
Agriculture
Tomorrow night at 6 pm at the Community Building, the Elberta Zoning Board of Appeals continues its hearing on Loy Putney's appeal of the Council's decision to require an occupancy rate of no more than one person per 165 square feet in his new Bay Valley
Infrastructure and Planning
Terry and Tex McGregor moved to Elberta in 2011. Tex (and yes, that's his real, given name) arrived first and built their blue house with its distinctive stone chimney and large quarter-circle windows on the lot once owned by Jim Clapp. For several years, the McGregors ran TNT
Community Alert
Well, this Alert writer doesn't know. But here's a letter to the editor of the Record-Patriot that appeared this week. We obtained it from Suz McLaughlin, who received it from the letter writer. McLaughlin said Mr. Zetterberg and his family own property near Pt. Betsie and
Agriculture
Download vrp-20130822-180203.m4a undefined Tonight the Zoning Board of Appeals, with new members Holly O'Dwyer and and Mark Held, after hearing public comment and a statement from Loy Putney's attorney, Brad Putney, decided to continue the hearing on September 4 to give ZBA members more time
Agriculture
Sometime between the afternoon of August 20 and 12:30 pm on August 21, Sharyn Bower posted this notice. Loy Putney is appealing the stipulation of council that he house no more than 1 person per 165 sq ft at the Bay Valley worker housing apartments. Since Putney had already
Breaking
Download vrp-20130815-190543.m4a undefined It was another nearly three hour meeting, with lots of decisions made and some deferred. President Reggie Manville was back, after a three-meeting absence. Employee benefits were discussed and a vote was taken on Linda Manville's proposal that employees begin contributing 20% toward their
Infrastructure and Planning
By Emily Votruba At a special meeting of the Planning Commission held last night at the old Elberta Library, in peaceful coexistence with the regularly scheduled Gilmore Township Planning Commission meeting, commission members voted to recommend that an occupancy requirement of a minimum of 200 square feet per person be
Agriculture