Townships, Michigan
Every Townships story from the public record — meetings, schools, safety, and events.
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Owosso hosts Goodrich volleyball in a six-game county Wednesday
Five volleyball matches and one soccer game fill the county slate tonight, with Owosso (2-1) home against Goodrich at 6:15 p.m. and the Trojans' soccer team at Linden at 6:30.
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Ovid-Elsie at Chesaning headlines a nine-game county Tuesday
Four soccer matches and five volleyball matches fill the county slate Tuesday night, with the only in-county meeting kicking off at 6 p.m. in Chesaning.
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M-21 down to one lane near Owosso Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
MDOT's Mi Drive map shows the left lane of M-21 between Escott and Wren roads closed during the day Tuesday and Wednesday, then again Thursday — the same stretch that has been under shoulder tile work since late August.
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Owosso soccer hosts Kearsley tonight in a three-game county slate
The Trojans (2-1) kick off at 6:30 p.m., with Clare at Ovid-Elsie soccer and Genesee at Perry volleyball both starting at 7.
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Five county boards meet Monday; Owosso at Corunna football Friday
Owosso, Corunna, Durand, New Lothrop and Ovid-Elsie all put boards in session Monday night, and 25 school games fill the week of Sept. 21-25.
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Sciota Township cuts deputy clerk's $500 election pay on 4-1 vote
The Aug. 10 minutes, approved Sept. 14, also record a third reported interference with the township's election-box camera and residents' objections to a gravel pit water withdrawal permit.
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Owosso edges Clio 8-7; Ovid-Elsie blanks Mt. Morris 56-0
Eight of the county's 10 football finals are in from Friday night, with Corunna's and Durand's games not available at deadline.
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Vernon Township sets $142.47 ambulance assessment, up from $125
The township board approved the per-household charge Sept. 14 after a public hearing in which residents questioned the rates and the wording of the notice, and written protests were entered into the record.
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Vernon Township levies fire millage hike, sets $200 land-split fee
The township board's Aug. 10 synopsis shows it voted to levy the fire operating increase voters approved, renew the fire equipment millage, and charge $200 plus $50 per split to divide a parcel.
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New Haven Township pays $108,295 to Road Commission; residents press on roads
Newly posted minutes from the township board's Aug. 10 meeting show three Shiawassee County Road Commission invoices approved 5-0, and three residents speaking about road conditions.
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Bennington Township moves $4,000 from parks to keep SATA buses running
The township board's Sept. 8 meeting also set a 2026 tax levy of 0.8728 mills for operating and 1.25 mills for fire, and approved $1,300 in brine for newly graveled roads on a 4-1 vote.
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Clio at Owosso tops a full 10-game county football Friday
Every Shiawassee County football team plays tonight at 7 p.m., with seven at home and no county-vs-county matchups on the board.
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County board in Corunna refills 2 road deputies, 2 prosecutors
Draft minutes of the Sept. 16 Shiawassee County board meeting also record $247,712 in court grant money, a jail phone contract renewal and the end of the county's PayIt agreement.
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Bennington Township met Sept. 8, not Sept. 7; clerk says no notice list
Clerk Donna Ash told The Current the September board meeting moved off Labor Day, that the board adopted a budget amendment and one appointment, and that the township keeps no standing list for sending out agendas.
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Woodhull Township's Rolling Hills rezoning tabled to October
Shiawassee County commissioners voted 5-0 Wednesday to hold the Rolling Hills zoning change for another month, rezoned a Bennington Township parcel and approved $11,825,043.09 in bills and payroll.
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New Lothrop volleyball at Ovid-Elsie leads 8 county games tonight
Eight Shiawassee County soccer and volleyball games are scheduled Thursday, Sept. 17, with a three-way volleyball night in Elsie and Durand home at 6:45 p.m.
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ArtWalk, Historic Home Tour fill downtown Owosso this weekend
Downtown Owosso has an art walk Friday afternoon and a home tour Saturday morning, the farmers market opens at 9 a.m., and all 10 county football teams play Friday night.
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Update: M-52 near Perry closes for one hour Sept. 25 — not through the week
MDOT's detailed closure record shows the total closure of M-52 between Bath Road and West Britton Road runs 6:00 to 7:01 PM on Friday, Sept. 25 — a one-hour closure, not a continuous one. The road is open until then.
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VA garage in Corunna awaits city approval, county board told
Final minutes of the Shiawassee County board's Aug. 12 meeting, posted this month, say the veterans garage project needs a sign-off from the City of Corunna before a groundbreaking is scheduled — and that September's closed session was described as a workers' compensation matter.
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Owosso at Corunna volleyball leads 5 county games tonight
The county's only in-county matchup Wednesday sends 1-1 Owosso to Corunna for a 6:15 p.m. start, with Durand, Perry and Laingsburg also in action.
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Woodhull Township's Rolling Hills rezoning goes to county vote tonight
The Shiawassee County board's 5 p.m. agenda also carries a closed session on the Henderson v. Shiawassee County lawsuit, $64,115 in new boilers and a three-year audit contract.
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Durand at Chesaning soccer leads 7 county games tonight
Durand's teams draw two in-county opponents Tuesday night — soccer at Chesaning at 6 and volleyball at Ovid-Elsie at 7 — on a seven-game county schedule.
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Perry, New Lothrop Sept. 11 football finals still unreported
Four of the seven county football games played Friday, Sept. 11 have no confirmed final at this desk — and the backlog now stretches back to Byron's Aug. 28 opener.
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Owosso volleyball hosts Clio in county's only home game Monday
Six Shiawassee County teams are in action Monday night, and five of them are on the road — Owosso's 6:15 p.m. volleyball match with Clio is the lone home date.
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Durand, Perry school boards meet Monday; Chesaning council Tuesday
Three public meetings, 25 school games and a week of library and senior-center programs fill the county calendar from Sept. 14 to Sept. 20.
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Durand 49, Chesaning 14; Owosso wins 24-20 at Lake Fenton
All seven Shiawassee County football finals from Friday, Sept. 11 are now confirmed, including Durand's win in the night's only county-vs-county game and Owosso's four-point road win.
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Morrice football at Portland St. Patrick leads 2 county games tonight
The Orioles are 1-1 heading into a 7 p.m. road kickoff, and Laingsburg soccer opens the county's Saturday at 3:15 p.m. at Swartz Creek.
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Corunna football beats Clio 30-14; six county finals still out
The Cavaliers' 30-14 win was the only verified final on the county scoreboard at deadline Friday night, with six more Shiawassee County football games still unreported.
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Hazelton, Middlebury road millages land on Nov. 3 county ballot
The county clerk's official proposal language sets a 1.5-mill road renewal in Hazelton Township and a 2-mill road levy in Middlebury Township that would raise an estimated $124,282 in its first year.
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Chesaning at Durand leads 7 Friday football games in Shiawassee County
Seven county football teams play Friday night, the Durand library runs craft day and a family movie, and Saturday brings the Owosso farmers market and championship night at Owosso Speedway in Ovid.
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Laingsburg at Perry soccer leads 3 county games Thursday
Perry, unbeaten at 2-0, hosts Laingsburg at 5:30 p.m., with Durand soccer at Lakeville and Morrice volleyball home against Beecher filling out the night.
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M-21 lane closure near Owosso listed only through today; Wren Road still shut
MDOT's Mi Drive map posts the M-21 left-lane closure between Wren and Escott roads as running through Sept. 10, while the Shiawassee County Road Commission has kept Wren Road itself closed for the same shoulder tile work with no announced reopening.
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Perry volleyball, 2-0, hosts Saranac in 5 county games Wednesday
Perry is the only county team with a winning record on tonight's five-game slate, which also sends Corunna to Clio and brings Lake Fenton to Owosso.
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Woodhull Township mails ambulance assessment notices; hearings Oct. 7
Sept. 2 proposed minutes show postcards going out this week, two hearings set for 6 and 6:15 p.m. Oct. 7, and the Rolling Hills project now in front of the county board of commissioners.
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Ovid-Elsie at New Lothrop leads 7 county games; Durand at Byron too
Two of tonight's seven Shiawassee County games are county-vs-county volleyball matches, both starting at 6:45 p.m., with New Lothrop unbeaten at 2-0.
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M-52 shut both ways near Perry after crash between Beard, Bath roads
MDOT's Mi Drive map listed the state highway closed in both directions between Beard Road and Bath Road, with no injury count, no cause and no reopening time attached to the alert.
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Perry, Bancroft, Laingsburg back on Consumers outage map again
Eight new entries covering about 860 customers put the same four communities back on the utility's map five days after the Sept. 3 storm line — and two Bancroft outages carry the identical customer count with different causes.
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Consumers logs 2,600 more outages, Lennon to Perry to Elsie
Nine more storm-damage entries on Consumers Energy's outage map covered the same towns hit Thursday, several with no restoration estimate at all — and the utility still has not given a county-wide total or an explanation.
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Owosso council takes up $116,107 in cleanup bills Tuesday
Owosso and Corunna councils meet Tuesday and Ovid-Elsie's school board Wednesday, followed by seven county football games Friday, including Chesaning at Durand.
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Wren Road shut a second week for M-21 tile work, still no end date
The Shiawassee County Road Commission keeps reposting the same one-day closures between Escott and Wren roads — with no detour, no contractor and no finish date — and has now added Copas and Byron roads to the list.
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683 lose power near Byron, Lennon; cause listed only as 'equipment issue'
Days after Thursday's storm knocked out power to about 3,300 customers across Shiawassee County, Consumers Energy's map logged a fresh round of outages with no storm attached to them.
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Shiawassee road commission reposts M-21 closures daily, no end date
Shoulder tile work between Escott and Wren roads has taken a lane of M-21 and closed Wren Road entirely, one day at a time, with no posted finish date, cost or contractor.
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New Lothrop 29, Durand 14; Perry wins 38-6 at Detroit Osborn
Three county football finals were confirmed from Thursday night's 14-game slate; results from the other 11 games, including Owosso, Chesaning, Ovid-Elsie, Byron, Laingsburg and Morrice, were not available at deadline.
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60 mph storm cuts power to about 3,300 in Shiawassee County
A severe thunderstorm warning crossed the whole county Thursday afternoon with 60 mph gusts and penny-size hail, and Consumers Energy logged outages in at least 10 communities — 735 customers near Lennon, five separate breaks around Laingsburg.
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Durand at New Lothrop, both 1-0, tops 14 county games tonight
Two unbeaten county football teams meet in New Lothrop at 7 p.m., part of a 14-game Thursday that also sends Owosso, Corunna, Chesaning, Ovid-Elsie, Laingsburg, Byron, Perry and Morrice out on the field.
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Durand library book sale, Owosso market fill Cruisin' Saturday
The Friends of the Library sell books on the Durand Memorial Library lawn at 10 a.m. Saturday while the building itself is closed for the Labor Day weekend, the farmers market opens at 9 a.m. in downtown Owosso, and Morrice plays euchre at 5 p.m.
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NWS: Shiawassee County under severe thunderstorm watch until 7 p.m.
The National Weather Service in Detroit/Pontiac issued Severe Thunderstorm Watch 648 at 2 p.m. Thursday for 15 Michigan counties, including all of Shiawassee.
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MDOT: I-69 eastbound left lane closed to Nov. 17, Goodall to M-13
The state's Mi Drive map lists the restriction running for roughly 10 weeks on the freeway Shiawassee County drivers use to reach Flint — and says nothing about why, who is doing the work, or what it costs.
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Ovid-Elsie volleyball hosts a quad in Elsie; 8 county games tonight
Freeland, Valley Lutheran and Powers Catholic all come to Ovid-Elsie at 5 p.m., and Owosso is the county's only home soccer team, hosting Holly at 6:30.
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Perry, Laingsburg host soccer at 5:30; four county games Tuesday
Two home soccer matches, a road trip to East Lansing and a Perry volleyball match at Lansing Christian make up Tuesday's county schedule.
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Corunna hosts Holly at 6:30, county's only home game tonight
Three county teams play Monday — Corunna soccer at home, Owosso soccer at Swartz Creek and Laingsburg volleyball at Portland — and all three come in 0-1.
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New Lothrop 54-0, and two county teams lose Aug. 27 openers by two
Thursday's seven-game slate produced a shutout in New Lothrop, blowouts for Chesaning and Perry, and two-point losses for Ovid-Elsie and Laingsburg.
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Shiawassee week ahead: six football games Thursday, two councils meet
Chesaning and Laingsburg councils meet Tuesday, six county football teams play on Thursday because of the holiday weekend, and both public libraries close Saturday.
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Byron hosts Mesick in football opener tonight; Owosso at Pinckney
Three county teams play Friday night, with Byron the only home game — and every score updates live at shiawassee.news/scoreboard.
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Vintage Motorcycle Days fills downtown Owosso Friday and Saturday
The festival takes over Washington Street on Saturday, the farmers market opens at 9 a.m., Owosso Speedway starts its championship nights in Ovid, and 13 school games fill the weekend.
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Caledonia Township seeks $1.5M federal grant for 17 new homes
The board also accepted an $87,600 Brick Plant Causeway grant, awarded a $19,550 siding bid and split a departed building official's remaining salary between two staff, all on 7-0 roll calls Aug. 17.
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Corunna at Durand leads six football openers across the county
Ten Shiawassee County teams play Thursday night, starting with the county's only high school football matchup of the evening: Corunna at Durand, 7 p.m.
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Woodhull Township park board weighs raising $10 ballfield rental fee
June 9 minutes from the park and recreation commission, posted this month, show a three-member quorum approved the budget 3-0, delayed the recreation plan hearing to late July and discussed charging more to rent the ballfields near Perry.
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Woodhull park board still waiting on ROWE rec plan, plans ballfield spraying
July 20 minutes from the park and recreation commission near Perry show three of five members met, approved the budget 3-0 pending a $1,620 question and moved to spray the baseball fields for about $200 to $250.
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Week Ahead in Shiawassee County: Vernon council, Vintage Motorcycle Days, football opens
A verified rundown of public meetings, community events and school games in Shiawassee County from Aug. 23 to Aug. 30, 2026.
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Consumers Energy lineman dies after electrocution in Henderson, Rush Township
The 48-year-old journeyman line worker was doing overhead electrical work on Henderson Road on Aug. 13; MIOSHA is investigating.
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New Haven Township board OKs second brine application on 46.12 miles of gravel road
The five-member board voted unanimously at a June 18 special meeting that lasted eight minutes, according to the clerk's minutes.
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Bennington Township board OKs vet clinic rezoning, $3,612 SATA deal
The Aug. 3 meeting also approved $147,004.33 in bills and raised the mileage reimbursement rate to 76 cents per mile, according to the minutes.
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Bennington Township sends 0.3333-mill SATA levy to Nov. 3 ballot
The township board voted unanimously July 6 to put a two-year transit funding proposal before voters and approved $80,608.77 in bills.
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Perry Township board OKs $30,450 Beard Road crack sealing bid
Trustees also approved about $12,075 for Britton Road, adopted amended Roselawn Cemetery rules and heard the Community District Library's annual report at the Aug. 5 meeting.
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Perry Township board OKs $3,556 SEDP pledge, names Nick Miller to planning panel
Three of five board members were present July 1 as the Perry Township Board approved an economic development pledge, a $700 electrical repair and two Planning Commission changes, according to the meeting minutes.
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New Haven Township board OKs $4,500 cemetery tree removal, $13,241.76 in bills
The five-member board approved both items on unanimous roll call votes at its July 13 regular meeting, and reported $1,188,281.58 across all township funds.
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Woodhull Township board raises custodian pay, buys $655 assessor sketching license
July 1 minutes show the five-member board approved $42,486.73 in bills, set custodian pay at $755 a month and sent a district library agreement to the township attorney, each on 5-0 votes.
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Woodhull Township board backs Rolling Hills PUD, $172,186.96 in bills
Proposed minutes from the Aug. 12 meeting near Perry show 5-0 votes on the planned unit development, the monthly bills and the LSW fire and ambulance budget, plus October public hearings on the ambulance assessment.
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Woodhull Township planning commission took up Mackenzie rezoning Aug. 11
A special meeting agenda shows the commission scheduled conditional rezoning request CPREZ26-001 from E.T. Mackenzie Company under both old and new business.
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Woodhull Township board agenda listed Rolling Hills PUD, ambulance assessment hearings
The Aug. 12 agenda for the Woodhull Township Board included a planned unit development application, snowplow contract bids and the scheduling of ambulance assessment public hearings.
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Shiawassee County week ahead: four public meetings, PFC Cantu 5K, 18 games
Owosso and Corunna boards meet Monday, Chesaning on Tuesday and Ovid-Elsie on Wednesday, with a library relocation talk, a downtown 5K and 18 school games filling the rest of the week of Aug. 17-22.
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Caledonia Township board approves $243,244.70 in bills, Martin Road culvert
The Caledonia Charter Township Board of Trustees voted 7-0 on June 15 to pay May payroll and June invoices, including a $173,110 ambulance check, and to buy a new culvert for the Martin Road dead end.
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Caledonia Township board awards $20,000 roofing bid, approves $290,917.63 in bills
The Shiawassee County township's board voted 6-0 on July 20 to hire Cleveland Contracting for the roof and to pay code enforcement officer Jim Delaney $3,300, according to the draft meeting synopsis.
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Shiawassee County board approves $6.7M in bills, adds vital records clerk
Commissioners voted 6-0 on every roll call at the Aug. 12 meeting in Corunna, clearing a $113,600 records system, a $54,040 LACASA contract and an $8,607.25 animal shelter resurfacing bid.
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Shiawassee County board sends senior services millage renewal to Nov. 3 ballot
Commissioners voted 6-0 on July 15 in Corunna to put a 0.4942-mill, five-year renewal before voters, and approved $7.16 million in bills and a $122,055 technology contract.
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Shiawassee County board takes up $113,600 records system at Aug. 12 meeting
The county commissioners' agenda for the 5 p.m. meeting lists three spending items, a new Vital Records Clerk position and a $54,040 LACASA contract.
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Shiawassee County board to weigh $122,055 SRESD tech deal July 15
The county board's July 15 agenda also includes the 2025 audit, a housing rehab contract, court staffing replacements and a zoning appeals appointment.