The Union Township Board of Trustees unanimously voted Brian A. Smith as their top candidate for the position of township manager at their regular meeting Wednesday evening.

“I think Mr. Smith is a very impressive candidate,” said Trustee John Dinse at the meeting.

Mount Pleasant Police are looking for two men who are suspected to have stolen more than $350 from five local businesses on South Mission Street in a series of quick-change scams this weekend.

On Friday and Saturday, two men visited Big Apple Bagel, 2024 S.

The Union Township Board of Trustees unanimously voted Brian A. Smith as their top candidate for the position of township manager at their regular meeting Wednesday evening.

“I think Mr. Smith is a very impressive candidate,” said Trustee John Dine at the meeting.

Dennis Lennox II, a Topinabee senior and Cheboygan County drain commissioner, has been named in a complaint filed by Ingham County Commissioner Mark Grebner.

The complaint, filed May 13, states Lennox published a defamatory statement by editing Grebner’s online Wikipedia page in Oct.

A new program in the Post 9/11 GI Bill will give increased financial aid to 200 to 300 Central Michigan University students in off-campus and online programs.

The Yellow Ribbon Program will guarantee to pay a tuition rate for veterans that is equal to the highest public institution in the state, said Brian Bell, associate director of financial operations for Off-Campus and Online Programs.

I confess to being pretty disappointed last fall when Central Michigan University failed to find a Griffin Endowed Chair replacement for the spring after Gary Peters left to assume his duties as a Congressmen.

I was signed up for the spring class and quite looking forward to it, so I am pleased to see that CMU has found a Griffin Chair for the fall.

The Iraq War Memorial in Mount Pleasant was reconstructed Tuesday after two vandals tore down the bronze statue in early April.

Rosebush resident Linda Fabian, whose family helped construct the memorial at Island Park, 331 N. Main St., said it features a new bronze cast of an M16 rifle and helmet, identical to the previous cast.

A 23-year-old Mount Pleasant woman has been charged with four counts of assault as the result of a stabbing Saturday evening on East Bellows Street.

Sara Beth Snyder, originally arraigned with assault to do great bodily harm less than murder and assault with a dangerous weapon, was given two further charges from the Isabella County Prosecutor’s Office after further review, said Mount Pleasant Police Department Information Officer Dave Sabuda.