Jim Bloch

It took two introductions, one last summer and a revised one Dec. 16, but the city of St. Clair now has an ordinance governing the use of Off-Road Vehicles, especially golf carts, on city streets.

If mowing and caretaking your lawn is not your favorite job, imagine doing it for 19 parcels, including seven parks, a number of public buildings, a boat harbor and a hilly cemetery with ancient, sometimes-crumbling headstones and narrow curving roads.

If your home in St. Clair has a lead water service line or a galvanized line previously connected to a lead service line, the city will replace it free of charge.

By Jim Bloch More than five months after the planning commission voted against the special use permit for a marijuana retail store at 1814 10th Street, the Port Huron City Council voted to approve the dispensary. The council voted 5-1 at its regular meeting Jan. 13 to approve the request...

By Jim Bloch The auditors at Plante Moran delivered an ‘unmodified opinion’ on the city of Port Huron’s financial statements for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2024. “… that’s the highest level of assurance we can give to a set of financial statements,” said David Helisek, the lead...

The Port Huron City Council has granted a company a six-year tax break on a rehabilitation project at the old Prestolite building, 3500 24th Street. The 350,000 square foot building sits on a 30-acre parcel of land.

Enbridge Energy, the giant energy transport company based in Alberta, is proposing to build a tunnel below the lakebed in the Straits of Mackinac to house the portion of Line 5 that now runs along the bottom of the Straits in two pipes, each 20 inches in diameter and 72-years old. The company has estimated the cost of the 4.5-mile tunnel at $500 million.

By Jim Bloch St. Clair’s winter festival known as the Icy Bazaar rolls into town Friday-Sunday, Jan. 24-26, featuring fireworks, ice carving competitions, live music, face painting for kids and other events. The St. Clair Chamber of Commerce sponsors the weekend festival. On Friday, live ice carvings begin at 3...

The Pizza City does not have the same kind of gravitas as The Motor City. Can you imagine Piztown Records instead of Motown Records?