Saline Home Welcomes County Choirs For Christmas Carols
A stream of young singers visited Saline Evangelical Home to carol residents and wish them a Merry Christmas. Third graders from Houghton School led a corridor procession singing and residents joined in. Brownies and many groups from Washtenaw County filled the week with musical serenades across the home and surrounding communities. Escaped Murderer Still Loose.
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Saline Evangelical Home
Houghton School
Rudolph
Washtenaw County
Loch Alpine Community Choir
Saline High School Chorus
Pleasant Lake Brownies
Saline Area
Saline
Ann Arbor
Girl Scout
Bemis Prison Escape Sparks Call for Tighter Security
Five women escaped from the Huron Valley Women's Correctional Facility on Christmas Day with Ernestine Campbell among the fugitives. Residents report repeated security lapses, praise an area alert system, and urge stronger fencing and communications to prevent future breaches.
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Huron Valley Women’s
Bemis Road
Ernestine Campbell
Flint
Jeanne Speier
Speier
Gary Chriscinske
W. Bemis
Saline City Survey Hits Snag Over Water Street Boundaries
A Saline City survey of Water St. boundary lines faced a setback when a west millpond area property owner ordered surveyors to leave on Tuesday. City officials on Wednesday said the work would continue but not as quickly as first asked to settle ownership questions of the Water St. right of way.
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Saline City
Water St
Millpond
Saline Seeks Priority for Sewage Project Grant
Saline asks the Michigan DNR to elevate its draft 2.5 million sewage system project on the state’s grant priority list. City officials say the plan, submitted July 29, seeks 80 percent federal, 5 percent state, and 20 percent local funding, with completion aimed at 1981.
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Department of Natural Resources
Abe Munfah
Munfah
DNR
Muniah
DNA
Lansing
Saline City Council
City of
Saline
Saline Polices Reports Car Theft Spree at Ford Plant Lot
Police logged four daytime thefts from cars in the Ford plant lot during the holiday week. A vehicle owned by an Adrian man lost a CB radio and 8 track player worth 249 dollars, with three other cars missing CB radios worth 100 to 200 each. No forced entry seen.
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Saline
Ford Plant
Adrian
Cbs
Woodland Dr
Crescive Tool
Ann Arbor St
Doners Three Enjoy Perfect Christmas Homecoming
David and Jane Doner of Saline celebrate a Christmas miracle as their two month old son Brandon returns from Colombia. After choosing him in Bogota with the help of the Colombian American Friends, the couple endured long travel and extensive paperwork to secure final signatures in Michigan. They reunite at their Watson Drive home on Christmas Eve, marking a joyous family Christmas.
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Texpectant
Brandon
1014
Watson
David
Jane Doner
Saline
Washtenaw County Child and Family Agency
Ann Arbor
Colombia
South America
Bogota
Michigan
USA
Jane
Caribbean
Miami
Doners
Watson Dr
Rolling Meadows
Power Failure Hits Saline During Christmas Morning Outage
Detroit Edison reports a 12 minute power shutdown on Christmas day affecting about 220 Saline customers. A Wire section at the W Bennett Street substation failed, forcing the temporary outage while permanent repairs were made. The primary phase was down four hours but only triggered the 12 minute cutoff.
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Detroit Edison
W. Bennett St
Edison
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