Mary Muter, Chair, Great Lakes Section, Sierra Club Ontario will be speaking on Upper Great Lakes Water Levels – Reasons to support Michigan/Huron water levels gradual restoration. Declining water levels in the Great Lakes have many serious implications for communities throughout the Great Lakes Basin. The International Joint Commission for the Great Lakes for...Read More »
Port Huron City Council had up for discussion at last night’s meeting, the rezoning of a number of properties along St. Clair Street as well as deciding whether to vacate an alley that runs behind them. Prior to the construction of the Thomas Edison Inn, a number of homes lined the east side of...Read More »
A 23-year-old Marine from Detroit has been killed in Afghanistan. The Defense Department announced Monday that Pfc. Steven P. Stevens II died Friday while conducting combat operations in Helmand province. Stevens went to Afghanistan on March 21. According to reports, family members say that’s about a week before his son was born. Stevens attended...Read More »
The Port Huron Board of Education approved, 6-1, the preliminary 2012-13 budget at last night’s meeting. When finalized, the budget would include a 10% pay cut for teachers. The lone no vote was from board member Kathie Sheets. The preliminary budget shows just over $85 million in revenue with $95.5 million in expenditures and...Read More »
By order of Gov. Rick Snyder, U.S. flags on all campuses of Western Michigan University and throughout Michigan will be lowered Tuesday, June 26, in honor of U.S. Army Sgt. Joseph M. Lilly, of Flint, Mich., who died June 14 while on active duty in Afghanistan. Lilly, age 25, died of wounds suffered two days earlier when insurgents attacked his unit using...Read More »
