News across Gratiot County
Mature Citizen
Alma/St. Louis Senior Center The Filling Station, 415 Park Ave., Alma Sue Waber, Site Manager 989.875.9118 Mondays: 10am -12pm – Sit and Stich Wednesdays: 10:30-11am – EZ Motion Exercise Breckenridge/Wheeler Senior Center Wheeler Township Hall, 8510 E. Monroe Rd., Wheeler Lori…
Quilt Show Thank You
The Ithaca Promotional Committee held its 6th annual Linda Weburg Memorial Quilt Show Saturday, September 19 during the Ithaca Harvest Festival. Forty quilts made or owned by local quilters were on display in the Village Shoppes corridor including a special display of Linda…
Grant Opens Doors for Huskie Pups
Michael MacDonald Herald Editor Children at Huskie Pup Learning Center are getting more chances to put their hands and minds to work, with projects to build and places to explore beyond the classroom. A $10,000 grant from the Gratiot Community Foundation’s Powell Chessin Science…
Deadline Extended in Tax Foreclosure Class Action
Michael MacDonald Herald Editor Former Gratiot County property owners who lost land to tax foreclosure may be owed money, and a federal judge has given them more time to claim it. A proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuit would repay people whose real estate sold at auction…
Missing Sewer Records Cloud Ownership Claims
Rosemary Horvath Herald Correspondent Government officials from Fulton Township and one of its incorporated municipalities, the Village of Perrinton, appear to be searching for what has become a needle in a haystack. The two governmental units have shared a sewer system for more…
Forest Hill Nature Area Breaks Ground on New Building
Michael MacDonald Herald Editor Ground has been broken at Forest Hill Nature Area, the 90-acre outdoor classroom north of Alma, on a $5 million building that will let more school groups visit at once and keep lessons going through inclement weather. The Gratiot-Isabella Regional…
Students to Share Pine River Research
Alma College students will share findings from their summer research on Pine River conditions during Healthy Pine River’s membership meeting next Thursday. The presentation will cover the waterway’s health and sustainability, followed by questions from those attending. The…
Alma Plant Overhaul to Close Washington Avenue
Rosemary Horvath Herald Correspondent Alma motorists will learn to avoid Washington Avenue on the northeast side of town once construction on the city’s wastewater treatment plant begins in late October. The street thoroughfare separates the north and south sections of the plant…
Transmission Line Listening Session Set for Monday
ITC Michigan will hold an open house Monday in Alma to collect public input on possible routes for a new 55-mile transmission line through western and northern Gratiot County. It runs from noon to 7 p.m. Oct. 5, at the Doig Conference Center, 1200 Wright Ave in Alma. Residents…
Rural Michigan in Crisis: Too Many Governments That Too Few Want to Lead
Ron French Bridge Michigan Fresh from retirement from United Airlines in 1996, James Gillett returned to the community where he was born, the quiet northern Michigan village of Pellston. He’d barely moved in when he was asked to join the village board. Within a year, he was…
A Good Night’s Sleep
The Plank Road Arbor of the Gleaners collected 15 sheet and pillowcase sets at Stylz Hair Styling in Breckenridge for the Gratiot County chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace. The bedding will be given to local children when their new beds are delivered. Pictured from left are Stylz…
Honoring Gratiot’s Past
Annie Reid Knox Gratiot Farm Girl to Philanthropist By Elizabeth VanDyke Anna Reid was born in Gratiot County in 1875, the third daughter of Gratiot County pioneer and farmer Darius Reid and his wife Jennie Lawrence. She was always called Annie and was remembered as a…