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Clinton Township board argues over election mailer
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2/23/22 2:26 PM
BY DEAN VAGLIA
dvaglia@candgnews.com
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Another chapter in the partisan struggle on the Clinton Township Board of Trustees played out on the evening of Dec. 18 as the board rejected sending out an early voting mailer along party lines. Trustees voted 3-3 on whether to approve hiring printer American Graphics Inc., of Clinton Township, to print an informational document about early voting in the township. See MAILER on page 10A
FRASER OFFICER RESCUES WOMAN FROM BURNING VEHICLE FRASER — A Fraser public safety officer is being commended after rescuing a woman from her burning vehicle on Dec. 16. The Fraser Department of Public Safety reported that officer Cameron Rieper pulled the woman from the driver’s seat of a GMC Sierra at about 10 p.m. as the vehicle was engulfed in flames after entering a ditch on the east side of Hayes Road south of 15 Mile Road. Rieper said the initial call from dispatch was for a
vehicle in a ditch. On his way to the scene, he learned the vehicle was on fire. “I received the call while I was still at the station and was just getting out on patrol. I pulled up and there was a GMC Sierra in a ditch on Hayes Road, just south of 15 Mile Road,” said Rieper. “The back of the vehicle was on fire and the fire was starting to spread to the rest of the vehicle. The driver was behind the wheel and rolling her window up with the door closed. She seemed confused or had an altered state. I don’t think she understood what was going on.” Rieper rushed to the vehicle and pulled the wom-
See RESCUE on page 8A
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Clinton Township Supervisor Robert Cannon, left, argues with Clinton Township Treasurer Paul Gieleghem about Gieleghem’s opposition to an early voting mailer. Cannon threatened to have Gieleghem removed from the meeting by Police Chief Dina Caringi, though this did not come to pass.
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