Tuesday, November 23, 2021
8A The Mining Journal
State/Nation/World
State briefing
Island anger:
Last Kmart in state now closed
Guadeloupe
MARSHALL, Mich. (AP) — The last Kmart in Michi-
gan has closed in the state where the former brick-and-
closes schools
mortar retail giant got its start. Sunday was the last day at
a Kmart in Marshall, 100 miles west of Detroit, City
after COVID riots
Manager Tom Tarkiewicz said Monday.
LE GOSIER, Guadeloupe
(AP) — Schools closed
across the French Caribbean
island of Guadeloupe on
Monday and France’s presi-
dent warned of a “very ex-
plosive” situation in the ter-
ritory, after protests against
COVID-19 rules and vacci-
nations descended into days
of rioting and looting.
“They still had products they were selling,” Tarkiewicz
said.
An email seeking comment from Kmart’s corporate
parent wasn’t immediately returned. The first Kmart
store opened in Garden City, a Detroit suburb, in 1962.
The chain grew to more than 2,000 stores across the U.S.,
but its fortunes changed as other big box retailers gained
momentum. Kmart reorganized under bankruptcy protec-
tion in 2002-03 and began closing hundreds of stores be-
fore merging with Sears, Roebuck & Co. in 2004.
Kmart’s website lists 21 stores remaining in the U.S. or
U.S. territories. It also sells goods online. Tarkiewicz
didn’t know why the Marshall store was the last in
Michigan to stay open but said he had heard it was con-
sidered to be a profitable location.
In this image made from video, Republican Kevin Rinke, a former owner of Detroit-area car
dealerships, launches his campaign for Michigan governor on Monday, Nov. 22, 2021 in De-
troit. Rinke is running for Michigan governor with TV and digital ads touting himself as a con-
servative outsider and criticizing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. (Ben Yoho/The Strategy Group/The
Rinke Campaign via AP)
France’s central govern-
ment sent in police special
forces to try to restore order
to the former colony, as
emergency workers said they
were unable to reach neigh-
borhoods barricaded by an-
gry crowds. The prefect of
Guadeloupe said in a state-
ment that 11 people have
been arrested by police
overnight Sunday into Mon-
day. He said some patients
who need to receive kidney
dialysis treatment couldn’t
get access to a hospital and
“are now in danger.”
“We have several patients”
in the blockaded area of La
Boucan, tweeted Patrick
Portecop, head of the region-
al emergency service. “We
are powerless.”
Guadeloupe’s education
department ordered schools
closed for all ages Monday
“taking into account the situ-
ation,” and asked parents to
keep their children at home.
Demonstrations in Guade-
loupe, an overseas French
“It was busy,” he said. “We saw a lot of out-of-state
cars. We’re only 36 miles from Indiana.”
Tarkiewicz is optimistic the real estate will get a new
life.
“The owner of the building is from California. He’s
working on a sale agreement for someone to buy it,”
Tarkiewicz said.
Businessman Rinke launches
campaign for state’s governor
By DAVID EGGERT
vate investor.
Garrett Soldano and ex-on-
Associated Press
Voters “want a leader to line news host Tudor Dixon.
put at end to Gov. Whit- Michigan Democratic Par-
LANSING — Republican
Kevin Rinke, a former own-
er of Detroit-area car dealer-
ships, launched his cam-
paign for Michigan gover-
nor on Monday with self-
funded TV and digital ads
that tout him as a conserva-
tive outsider and criticize
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Rinke, who had been ex-
ploring a bid for months,
said he is prepared to spend
at least $10 million, shaking
up a crowded GOP primary
of untested political new-
comers. He once owned
Rinke Automotive Group;
his grandfather had started
one of the state’s first Gen-
eral Motors franchises more
than a century ago. Rinke
later helmed a brain injury
rehab facility, a health care
company and became a pri-
mer’s assault on our values ty spokesperson Rodericka
and our way of life,” he said Applewhaite said Rinke’s
in a statement. “I’m fighting entry into the race further
for their kids, their jobs and complicates a “messy, divi-
their future, and I won’t sive, unsettled primary.”
Biden to keep Powell as Fed
chair, Brainard gets vice chair
WASHINGTON (AP) — of banks.
President Joe Biden an-
“If we want to continue to
back down.”
“Though he plans to set
nounced Monday he’s nomi- build on the economic suc-
nating Jerome Powell for a cess of this year, we need sta-
second four-year term as Fed- bility and independence at the
eral Reserve chair, endorsing Federal Reserve — and I
Powell’s stewardship of the have full confidence after
economy through a brutal their trial by fire over the last
pandemic recession in which 20 months that Chair Powell
the Fed’s ultra-low rate poli- and Dr. Brainard will provide
cies helped bolster confidence the strong leadership our
The ads, which cost six himself apart by trying to
figures to air, show Rinke buy this election, he stands
driving a 1969 Pontiac with the rest of the field in
GTO muscle car. He com- his extreme views and his
pares the Democratic gover- sole focus on relitigating an
nor to a Yugo, a much-ma- election that happened over
ligned compact car from the a year ago over issues that
former, communist-run Yu- matter to Michigan fami-
goslavia.
lies, she said. “Michigan-
and revitalize the job market.
country needs,” Biden said in
Rinke decries “a tyranni- ders deserve a governor
cal government, closed that’s actually going to fight
small businesses, illegal im- for working families and
migration, voter fraud, criti- the issues they care about,
Biden also said he would a statement. In a second term,
nominate Lael Brainard, the to begin in February, Powell
lone Democrat on the Fed’s would face a difficult and
Board of Governors and the high-risk balancing act: Infla-
preferred alternative to Pow- tion has reached a three-
ell among many progressives, decade high, causing hard-
department
of
about
400,000 people, erupted
over France’s mandatory
vaccinations for health care
workers and the COVID-19
health pass, required to enter
restaurants and many other
venues across France. As
they degenerated into rioting,
an 80-year-old woman was
hit by a bullet while on her
balcony and at least two oth-
ers have been injured, ac-
cording to local authorities.
While mainland France has
seen similar protests, demon-
strators in Guadeloupe are
also angry over deep-seated
economic, social and racial
inequality, and expanded
their demands in recent days
to include a general salary in-
crease, higher unemploy-
ment benefits and the hiring
of more teachers. Guade-
loupe’s COVID-19 vaccina-
tion rate is 33%, compared
to 75% nationwide.
cal race theory.”
like the recently signed in-
He is the 11th Republican frastructure law that will in-
in a field that includes for- vest in fixing local roads
mer Detroit police chief and create good-paying
James Craig, chiropractor jobs.”
as vice chair.
ships for millions of families,
A separate position of vice clouding the recovery and un-
chair for supervision, a bank dercutting the Fed’s mandate
regulatory post, remains va- to keep prices stable. But with
cant, along with two other the economy still 4 million-
slots on the Fed’s board. plus jobs shy of its pre-pan-
Those positions will be filled demic level, the Fed has yet to
in early December, Biden meet its other mandate of
said. His decision strikes a maximizing employment.
note of continuity and biparti- Next year, the Fed is widely
sanship at a time when surg- expected to begin raising its
ing inflation is burdening benchmark interest rate, with
households and raising risks financial markets pricing in
to the economy’s recovery. In two increases. If the Fed
backing Powell, a Republican moves too slowly to raise
who was first elevated to his rates, inflation may accelerate
post by President Donald further and force the central
Trump, Biden brushed aside bank to take more draconian
complaints from progressives steps later to rein it in, poten-
that the Fed has weakened tially causing a recession. Yet
bank regulation and has been if the Fed hikes rates too
slow to take account of cli- quickly, it could choke off
mate change in its supervision hiring and the recovery.
The State of Michigan
City of Negaunee
Office of the Treasurer
Notice of Public Auction
To Whom it May Concern:
Please be advised that pursuant to the laws of the State of Michigan and the City Charter for
the City of Negaunee, the City of Negaunee hereby gives notice of its intent to sell at a public
auction on Friday, December 3, 2021, at 10:00 A.M. in the City of Negaunee City Hall, 319
West Case Street, Negaunee, MI 49866, three (3) continuous parcels (Lot 40A, Lot 40B and
Lot 40C) located at 600 County Road M-28 (the “Property”), and more particularly described
as:
(Lot 40A) with the following legal description:
That portion of Lot 40 of the Assessor’s Plat of Jackson Misc., in the City of
Negaunee, County of Marquette, State of Michigan, as per the plat recorded
in the office of the Marquette County Register of Deeds, described as follows:
Commencing at the northeast corner of Lot 40 of said plat; then westerly
along the north line of said Lot 40 of the following two courses; S88º16’02”W
a distance of 467.14 feet; then N85º46’25”W a distance of 106.69 feet to the
POINT OF BEGINNING; then S00º00’00”W a distance of 158.80 feet to the
northerly right-of-way line of Business Highway U.S.-41/M-28; then S89º57’13”
along the northerly right-of-way line of said highway a distance of 25.87 feet
to a point of curvature; then westerly 100.23 feet along the arc of a 7275.12
foot radius curve to the left, with a delta angle of 00º47’22”, long chord bearing
S89º33’48”W and long chord length of 100.23 feet, to a point of tangency, said
curve being a northerly right-of-way line of said highway; then S89º21’23”W
along the northerly right-of-way line of said highway a distance of 29.06 feet to
the southwest corner of said Lot 40; then northerly along the west line of said
Lot 40 the following two courses; N05º15’44”E a distance of 68.24 feet, then
N00º10’25”W a distance of 102.99 feet to the northwest corner of said Lot 40;
then S85º46’25”E along the north line of said Lot 40 a distance of 149.61 feet
to the POINT OF BEGINNING, containing 0.57 acres more or less and subject
to all exceptions, restrictions, reservations and conditions in prior conveyances
of record.
Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Public Service
Commission
Administrative Rules for Technical Standards for Electric Service Rule
Set 2021-77 LR
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Thursday, December 9, 2021
10:30 AM
only: +1 248-509-0316, US Phone Conference ID 269 161 043#
(Lot 40B) with the following legal description:
The Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs will hold a public hearing to receive public
comments on proposed changes to the Technical Standards for Electric Service rule set.
These rules apply to electric utility service provided by utilities that are subject to the
jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission. The rules are intended to promote safe and
adequate electric service to the public, to provide standards for uniform and reasonable
electric practices by utilities, and to encourage efficiency and safety. The word “electric” is
being inserted in front of “utility” and the word “cooperative” is being added after “utility”
in every rule that is being amended to clarify that these rules apply to electric utilities and
cooperatives, only, and not alternative electric suppliers. Several new definitions are being
added to R 460.3102 to assist with clarification. R 460.3308 is being updated to reflect the
most up-to- date version of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards for
electricity meters, and the prices for copies of the ANSI standards need to be updated to
reflect current prices. R 460.3309 is being stricken so that it may be moved to the Michigan
Public Service Commission’s “Consumer Standards and Billing Practices for Electrical and
Gas Residential Service” rules. R 460.3411 is being updated to allow the utilities and new
customers a meeting, which provides a better opportunity to discuss new service options.
R 460.3505 is being updated to create a more detailed program for customer notification
regarding tree-trimming activities. R 460.3506 is being added to ensure that utilities are
employing sufficient and effective cybersecurity programs. R 460.3613 is being amended
to update and clarify meter testing requirements. R 460.3613a is being added to provide a
separate rule for electro- mechanical meter testing requirements. The documentation and
reporting requirements in R 460.3203, 460.3615, and 460.3617 are being updated. And,
language in several rules is being stricken because it involves obsolete technology. The
proposed changes to these rules is supported by the Michigan Public Service Commission
and by regulated industry.
By authority conferred on the public service commission by section 7 of 1909 PA 106, MCL
460.557, section 2 of 1909 PA 300, MCL 462.2, section 5 of 1919 PA 419, MCL 460.55,
sections 4 and 6 of 1939 PA 3, MCL 460.4 and 460.6, and sections 3, 9, and 231 of the
Executive organization act of 1965, 1965 PA 380, MCL 16.103, 16.109, 16.331, and Executive
Reorganization Order Nos. 1996-2, 2003-1, 2008- 4, and 2011-4, MCL 445.2001, 445.2011,
445.2025, and 445.2030.
The proposed rules will take effect immediately after filing with the Secretary of State. The
proposed rules are published on the State of Michigan's website at www.michigan.gov/ARD
and in the 11/15/2021 issue of the Michigan Register. Copies of these proposed rules may
also be obtained by mail or electronic mail at the following email address: mpscedockets@
michigan.gov.
That portion of Lot 40 of the Assessor’s Plat of Jackson Misc., in the City of
Negaunee, County of Marquette, State of Michigan, as per the plat recorded
in the office of the Marquette County Register of Deeds, described as follows:
Commencing at the northeast corner of Lot 40 of said plat; then S88º16’02”W
along the north line of said Lot 40 a distance of 418.38 feet to
the POINT OF BEGINNING; then S00º00’00”W a distance of 152.30 feet
to the northerly right-of-way line of Business Highway U.S.-41/M-28; then
S89º57’13”W along the northerly right-of-way line of said highway a distance
of 155.14 feet; then N00º00’00”E a distance of 158.80 feet to the north line of
said Lot 40; then easterly along the north line of said Lot 40 the following two
courses; S85º46’25”E a distance of 106.69 feet; then N88º16’02”E a distance of
48.76 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING, containing 0.55 acres more or less
and subject to all exceptions, restrictions, reservations and conditions in prior
conveyances of record.
(Lot 40C) with the following legal description:
That portion of Lot 40 of the Assessor’s Plat of Jackson Misc., in the City of
Negaunee, County of Marquette, State of Michigan, as per the plat recorded
in the office of the Marquette County Register of Deeds, described as follows:
Commencing at the northeast corner of Lot 40 of said plat; then S88º16’02”W
along the north line of said Lot 40 a distance of 263.17 feet to the POINT OF
BEGINNING; then S00º00’00”W a distance of 156.87 feet to the northerly
right-of-way line of Business Highway U.S.-41/M-28, then S89º57’13”W along
the northerly right-of-way line of said highway a distance of 155.14 feet; then
N00º00’00”E a distance of 152.30 feet to the north line of said Lot 40; then
N88º16’02”E along the north line of said Lot 40 a distance of 155.21 feet to
the POINT OF BEGINNING, containing 0.55 acres more or less and subject to
all exceptions, restrictions, reservations and conditions in prior conveyances of
record.
The minimum opening bid for the Property shall be $2,500.00. The Property will be sold to
the highest bidder “AS IS” and is subject to the terms of a Development Agreement, which
in substance, requires the purchaser to construct for sale residential homes on each lot. The
successful bidder shall be responsible for all costs, fees and expenses associated with the
purchase and subsequent development. The property shall remain subject to any existing
easements and further subject to any future easements needed for roads or utilities.
The successful bidder at said auction will be required, at the conclusion of the auction, to make
a down payment equal to 10% of the final sale price. Final payment, plus a deed recording fee
of $125.00, will be due no later than seven (7) days after the date of said auction (December
10, 2021). The successful bidder shall also be required to sign, under penalties of perjury, a
statement that neither they nor any other person, who would gain equity in the property, have
any tax delinquencies or are otherwise in default to the City of Negaunee. Upon receipt of the
full payment, the City Treasurer shall execute, deliver, and cause to be recorded on behalf of
the City of Negaunee the quit claim deed necessary to transfer the title of the Property.
All Bidders must register at the City of Negaunee City Hall, 319 West Case Street, Negaunee,
MI 49866 and be present prior to the commencement of said Auction. Registration will begin
at 9:00 a.m. and close promptly at 9:45 a.m.
Comments on these proposed rules may be made at the hearing, by mail, or by electronic mail
at the following addresses until 1/6/2022 at 05:00PM.
Michigan Public Service Commission, Executive Secretary, Case No. U-20630
Executive Secretary, Case No. U-20630, Michigan Public Service Commission P.O. Box 30221,
Lansing MI 48909 mpscedockets@michigan.gov
The public hearing will be conducted in compliance with the 1990 Americans with Disabilities
Act. If the hearing is held at a physical location, the building will be accessible with handicap
parking available.
Anyone needing assistance to take part in the hearing due to disability may call 517-284-8090
to make arrangements.
A copy of the Negaunee City Council resolution approving this public auction and the
Development Agreement for the property are available for inspection at the City Treasurer’s
office at the Negaunee City Hall.
