Mt. Pleasant receives $30,000 recreation grant

The City of Mt. Pleasant has received a $30,000 grant from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to fix part of the city’s trail system. “We need to repair a piece of the Millpond Trail,” City Manager Kathie Grinzinger said, “particularly that piece that starts at Broadway Street and goes into Millpond Park toward the dams. “That part of the trail is sitting on a really high riverbank, and there are a lot of tree roots.” The grant, along with $44,000 from the city’s Capital Improvement Fund, will pay to have that 1,100-foot section of the trail replaced, along with 500 feet of fence. Construction on the Millpond trail will begin in summer 2012. Around the state 24 total grants were given out for what the DNR labeled “outstand projects that will enhance communities for generations to come.”

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