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Only a couple paved road surfaces the rest are gravel no traffic lights or street lights; instead, starlight and moonlight. There is no Main street, no Main Street businesses no businesses at all.
But there are back roads all that’s needed, providing you’re not in a tizzy to scurry off somewhere.
There was a time, long gone on a typical evening with no traffic you could cruise with a libation that, if consumed in moderation, cleared the mind and relieved the spleen.
Sipping and talking, moving and dreaming, singing and laughing, listening to the radio if you could find a station youthful tensions born of love-loss distractions all slipped away hope was restored.
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News Photo Steve Schulwitz
Alpena Township Clerk Michele Palevich proudly shows off pictures of her family while at work Monday. She is already planning for a special election, which is part of her job.
ALPENA Townships come in various sizes and have different numbers of employees to run them.
That can make the day-to-day jobs involved in running one township very different from the jobs needed to run another.
Three township trustees from around Northeast Michigan talked to The News about those and other issues:
BIG-PICTURE, WHAT IS YOUR JOB?
Laura Hilla, treasurer, Rogers Township: “My job as township treasurer is to collect current-year summer and winter property taxes for Rogers Township in Presque Isle County. At the beginning of March, any unpaid taxes for the previous year are turned over to the county to collect and are considered delinquent.”
By Tom Moore
Mar 11, 2021
(Wellington Township) - A man died Wednesday evening in what the Lorain County Sheriff s Office calls an unfortunate accident. He was apparently crushed by a car on which he was working.
Just before 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Lorain County 911 got a call about a man trapped under a car at a home on Fairgrounds Road in Wellington Township. Wellington Fire and Southern Lorain County Ambulance came, and found the man trapped underneath a blue Honda two-door. The man was pronounced dead.
Lorain County Deputies were called in, along with the Lorain County Coroner s Office. They determined that the 34-year-old man had been working on the car while lying on a mechanic s creeper underneath the car. The car was elevated from the concrete floor with two jack stands, and two metal car ramps. At some point, the car shifted backward off the ramps and jack stands. This caused the car to fall on the man, killing him.