Mattawan’s proposed wastewater treatment facility draws backlash from community members
Updated Mar 09, 2021;
Posted Mar 09, 2021
A map from Mattawan s 2018 feasibility study highlights the existing Kalamazoo forcemain, as well as the proposed dumping location at Hayden Creek.
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MATTAWAN, MI The Mattawan Village Council has faced backlash from community members over a proposal to create a wastewater treatment facility.
Residents have expressed environmental concerns over the impact on Hayden Creek and the watershed, the overall cost of the project as well as the facility negatively affecting property values.
During the council’s Monday, March 8 meeting a motion to stop looking at creating the facility failed 4 to 2.
Billy Jack: Hate your neighbor. You have my permission
It had been 50 years since Billy and I last met. To say that time had been unkind would be an understatement.
Billy Jack
(1971)
Jean Roberts’ (pseudonymous co-writer and Mrs. Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor) hollow-voiced opening narration brings us up to speed on the legend of Billy Jack. He was a half-breed Vietnam vet who hated what war stood for in spite of adhering to a day-to-day doctrine of “Peace Through Pummeling.” And no one knew where he lived. What Jean fails to tell us is that Billy Jack, not Bruce Lee, deserves credit for introducing American audiences to the martial arts. And woe to those bad guys who refuse to vamoose the moment Billy begins removing his shoes.
Fayetteville and Cumberland County this week doled out a total of $3,675 in tax money for motel rooms for homeless people escaping potentially life-threatening cold weather.
Due to staffing problems caused by COVID-19, the Salvation Army shelter was not taking homeless people in for overnight stays this week on the “white flag” days of Monday and Tuesday, when temperatures plunged into the 20s.
The shelter is usually a “white flag” facility, and officials are hoping that it can once again become one by Monday of next week.
In the meantime, the Fayetteville Cumberland Homeless Initiative Fund, which receives city and county funds, paid for 36 rooms on Monday and Tuesday nights, with 43 homeless people staying in them, said Delores Taylor, the director of Cumberland County Community Development.