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Andrea Deanna Brennan, a teacher for the Van Buren Public Schools district, has been charged with providing sexually explicit material to a 15-year-old boy. She received a personal recognizance bond of $10,000 in court Tuesday and was released. She is expected to return to court on Monday. Brennan, a 37-year-old Ypsilanti woman who is a teacher at North Middle School, was arraigned on charges in 34th District Court in Romulus. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy has charged her with distributing sexually explicit material to a minor, a two-year felony. She was also charged with use of a computer to commit a crime, a felony punishable by up to four years in prison, and furnishing alcohol to a minor, a misdemeanor with a penalty of up to 60 days in jail. The charges come from an alleged meeting on July 10 between Brennan and the 15-year-old, who has never been a student of Brennans. At about 1:30 a.m. July 10, Van Buren Township police officers were patrolling the softball fields surrounding a
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oughly 10 years ago, housing in Michigan was just on the precipice of bursting its burgeoning bubble. Urban sprawl had paid off for counties neighboring Wayne County and housing developments had never looked better. There was a mindset back then that this growth was going to go on forever, said Rob Turner, a western Washtenaw County commissioner.

So, when a developer wanted to build, many municipalities didnt blink, and when it came down to water and sewer systems, growth was so confidently forecasted that municipalities like Sylvan Township

in Washtenaw County and Handy and Howell townships in Livingston County sought large bonds backed by county credit. In Sylvan Township, a water treatment plant with a planned capacity of 620,000 gallons per day was built with the assumption that a local developer would need the additional Residential Equivalent Units, or REUs, along with the installation of two new water wells and a 500,000gallon water tower in 2000.
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Online chat kicks off series on size, scope of government

By Jerry Wolffe
Joiurnal Register News Service

Local ads are just a hop away at the MIcentral. com marketplace. While you are there, you can check out all the special supplements of Journal Register Co. newspapers in Michigan. Click on marketplace on the home page of our website or go directly to www.marketplace.micentral.com.

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The participants let their views be known on problems facing our society faces in the dawn of the 21st century, where citizens are finding the past ways of doing business no longer work in a time of declining property tax revenue,
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State Rep. Jeff Irwin

olitical and business leaders discussed issues ranging from setting up health exchanges to implement the Affordable Care Act to consolidating government to provide services, to the role of an emergency manager during live chat, How Much Government? hosted on the Heritage Media website at www.heritage. com.

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What gets cut? Looking at severe nancial stress in a city and how it was solved, 4-A.

Whats the right size for local government? 4-A. Counties struggle to pay for court system, look at creative solutions, 13-A.
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