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FEBRUARY 8, 2024 • Vol. 4, No. 3
Wixom Road closed for installation of sewer
ABOVE: Hannah Jeong uses a shovel to toss snow at the camera during the “It’s a Snowday” music video.
BY CHARITY MEIER cmeier@candgnews.com
Screenshots taken from “It’s a Snowday” music video
ABOVE: Twelfth grade students who participate in both Major VI and the Novi Singers choir groups at Novi High School sing outside the school as part of the video. RIGHT: Superintendent Ben Mainka heads down the hill outside Novi Woods Elementary School in a scene from the video.
BY CHARITY MEIER cmeier@candgnews.com
he Novi Community School District announced its recent snow day with a music video featuring students and staff, including Superintendent Ben Mainka, which has now gone viral. “It is a bit of a fun surprise when you see a video about a snow day. The staff love this as much as our students, and it is all just a light-hearted way to make the announcement,” Mainka said of his reason for doing a snow day video announcement. The song, titled “It’s a Snowday,” a parody of Taylor Swift’s
“Cruel Summer,” was written by Novi High School sophomore Ella Griffin. She is a huge Swift fan and said the lyrics just came to her after the school sent an email asking for song suggestions and submissions. “I just, like, randomly thought of it and I kept building onto it every day,” Griffin said. “It just popped into my head.” See VIDEO on page 10A
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A portion of Wixom Road is closed to through traffic while a sewer is being installed under the road. Wixom Road, from Birchwoods Drive to Braeburn Lane, was shut down Feb. 5 and will remain closed for approximately four weeks. The closure is a result of the ongoing Wixom Road Sanitary Sewer Replacement and Pump Station Improvements Project, which is being done to accommodate existing flows through two pump stations on Wixom Road and to upsize the sewer between them, according to a press release. The sewer replacement part of the project is halfway completed, and it is expected to take approximately six more weeks to finish the remaining sewer installation, the release states. “There is nothing wrong with (the sewer). We are upsizing and we are maintaining it so that in future we don’t come into a problem,” said Indrani Bhattacharya, the project coordinator for Novi’s Water and Sewer Division. During the closure, traffic will be See SEWER on page 15A
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