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signup underway
Help for the Holidays, a
program coordinated by
Barry County Cares, helps
people in need at Christmas
time. Sign-up for Help for
the Holidays will be Oct. 11
through Nov. 24.
Barry County Cares con-
nects individuals and families
with churches, organizations,
businesses and others who
provide help, such as food for
a family or toys for children.
Locations to sign up, based
on home address, include:
Hastings and Middlevilleresidents: visit Barry County
Cares, 231 S. Broadway,
Hastings, Suite 108, or call
269-948-9555 Monday-
Friday 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Delton residents: visit Delton
District Library, Wednesday or
Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday
or Thursday 9 a.m.-6 p.m., or
Saturday 9 a.m.-1 p.m. or call
269-623-8040.
Freeport residents: visit
Freeport District Library,
Monday or Thursday 1-
p.m., Wednesday or Friday 9
a.m.-5 p.m., or Saturday 9-
a.m.; or call 616-765-5181.
Anyone wishing to “adopt”
a household should call Barry
County Cares, 269-948-
9555.A 17-year-old Hastings
male was charged Thursday
with murder and concealing
the death of Lane Roslund,
17, of Hastings.
Patrick Hunter Gilmore
was arraigned in Barry
County District Court on one
count of open murder, a felo-
ny punishable by up to life in
prison, and concealing the
death of an individual, a felo-
ny punishable by up to five
years in prison.
Police had been seeking
Roslund since family mem-
bers reported Sept. 21 that
they hadn’t heard from him
for about two weeks. Police
discovered the body of a
male, believed to be Roslund,
Wednesday.Friday, Michigan State
Police said the identity of the
decedent was confirmed as
Roslund.
Gilmore was charged as an
adult by automatic waiver.
Bond was set at $750,
cash or surety. His probable
cause conference was set for
9 a.m. Oct. 27 before Judge
Michael Schipper.Taylor Owens
Staff Writer
The Michigan State
Police fugitive team shot
and killed a 40-year-old
Barry County man in the
9200 block of Lindsey
Road in Orangeville
Township around 10 a.m.
Wednesday.
Police say Steven David
Schumann had absconded
from parole Sept. 24, and
the MSP First District
Fugitive Team out ofLansing was tracking him.
The team located
Schumann inside a vehi-
cle on Lindsey Road,
along with a female pas-
senger.
When police approached
the vehicle, the man “pro-
duced an edged weapon”
and took his female passen-
ger hostage.
“Two members of the
fugitive team fired multiple
shots, striking and killing
the suspect,” troopers said.The female hostage was
injured.
One of the fugitive team
members who fired is an
MSP detective sergeant,
while the other is an agent
of the Michigan Department
of Corrections.
The case is being investi-
gated by the MSP Fifth
District Incident Response
Team.Schumann’s previous
convictions included pos-
session of controlled sub-
stances in 2019, escape
from a felony jail sentence
in 2017, first degree retail
fraud in 2016, resisting,
obstructing or assaulting a
police officer in 2011, and
one count of stolen property
and two counts of forgery
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like working with him. I
think he’s doing a great job.
But this whole concept is
just plain wrong. I realize it
gives us warm fuzzies ...
To tie this kind of pay thing
to his achievements is
wrong.
“He took this job willing-
ly. The compensation is
already very lucrative, the
most lucrative in the county
... At least some of us are
on a mission to reduce the
overall cost that our taxpay-
ers incur in compensating
our elected officers.”
But Treasurer Deb
Buckowing said the amount
of the increase is much less
than the amount the town-
ship has saved.
“We starting tallying up
all the money we would
have been spending,”
Buckowing said. “We’ve
known for the past coupleof years that our IT [costs]
got way out of whack, and
we weren’t real happy with
their services, but it became
status quo. We didn’t have
anybody like a general
manager here because we
don’t have one. We have a
supervisor. Some larger
townships have a supervi-
sor and a [township] man-
ager ... those duties are
being assumed over here.
“The amount of money
he’s saving – things we are
not paying for – we didn’t
pay for anyone to come in
on a Friday and a Saturday
to set up all of our technol-
ogy, which we never have
had before. We never had
audio/video or had any of
these areas of technology,
even during the beginning
of when COVID was start-
ing.”
Buckowing said thetownship would have likely
spent “five to six” times the
amount of the salary
increase to use outside ser-
vices to face the township’s
technology issues.
“We’re looking at being
good stewards with what
we’re saving,” she said.
The increase is only
applicable until the next
township supervisor elec-
tion in November 2022. A
decision to extend the
increase could take place
after that election, accord-
ing to a township memo.
The statutory portion of
Schaefer’s salary is
$32,660, while the non-stat-
utory portion is $12,340.
The statutory portion of
the supervisor’s duties
include presiding over
board meetings, developing
the budget, administration
of assessments, serving asthe township’s legal agent
and appointments of com-
mission members. Some of
the non-statutory duties
include oversight of emer-
gency services, planning
and zoning, and code
enforcement; serving on the
M-37 Corridor Committee;
working on joint planning
with the village of
Middleville; working on the
Duncan Lake sewer system
and taking care of general
maintenance such as snow
plowing, information tech-
nology and grounds work,
according to a township
memo.
In other business, the
board:
Approved an amendment
to a 1988 resolution, direct-
ing James and Gretchen
Walsh to pay a $12,800 spe-
cial assessment for hooking
into the Duncan Lake sewersystem. The Walshes own a
house in the 6500 block of
Noffke Road. The 1988 res-
olution removed certain
parcels from the assessment
roll as a means to crate a
“fair and equitable” manner
to assess property owners
with two contiguous par-
cels, with the idea that only
one would hook into the
sewer.
Approved the purchase
of an additional fire-safe
file cabinet to hold docu-
ments and property files for
the township assessor at a
cost not to exceed $2,900.
Approved a snowplowing
contract with NTA Property
Management of Middleville
for $140 per 1 1/2-inch
snow event. The contract
covers the township hall
and Thornapple Township
Emergency Services build-
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Steven SchumannState police shoot, kill parole absconder
Missing teen found
dead, suspect charged