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graduate Michael Smith

able property
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millage rate to reduce as
The Dexter Board of
wins American Cinema

Michigan school districts per the Headlee amendEducation voted unaniEditors Eddie Award.
are allowed
to levy 18 mills
ment of 1978.
mously at a recent meeting

with three of
them being
The general operating
to go to voters to renew the

Headlee override
mills,
millage was originally
millages.

which are automatically

passed
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We would lose $4 milpartially levied

when propHeadlee millage was passed lion a year, said Chief

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increase faster
in 1999. Both expire this
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Millages on May ballot

By Sean Dalton
Heritage Media

Its time for the Dexter

Community School District
to renew its operating millage and Headlee override
millage, which translates
into $4 million in funding
for the district.

The renewals will go

before school district voters
in May.
Currently, homestead
property owners are paying
18 mills operating with 3
mills for Headlee held in
reserve. For each mill that
is levied, property owners
pay $100 per $100,000 in tax-

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Dexter graduate
earns Hollywood
editing award
By Kathleen Murphy
Heritage Media

Dexter native Michael

Smith is living the
California dream, pursuing his passion for film
editing and earning honors along the way.
Smith, a 2004 graduate
of Dexter High School,
received the Student
Editing Award at the
63rd Annual American
Cinema Editors Eddie
Awards held on Feb. 16 in
Beverly Hills, Calif. The
awards are a precursor to
Sundays Oscars.
To win his Eddie,
Smith beat out roughly
100 other student film
editors from across the
nation. The students all
received the same footage from the American
Cinema Editors and sent

back their version to be

judged by a panel of professional film editors. The
entries were pared down
to three finalists.
During the awards
show at the Beverly Hills
Hilton Hotel, Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight
presented Smith with his
Eddie.
His proud parents,
Gary and Donna Smith of
Dexter, said Michael was
shocked to hear his name
called. Hes a quiet kind
of guy, Donna said.
Michael is a first-year
fellow at the American
Film Institute in Los
Angeles. Before being
accepted as a fellow at the
American Film Institute,
he submitted an original
three-minute film.

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detector to study speeds on variKeough wrote in his weekly update. motorists
traveling
were

between

ous side streets. The data for Ryan

As
a
follow
up
to
the
Town
31-31
mph
and
56
were
traveling

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Drive in Huron Farms was presentthe
data
was
sent between
36-40 mph.
Hall
meeting

ed at this weeks council meeting.

to Sgt. Flores with a request that
Results
for
the following
week
of
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Studies have previously been

the Sheriff spend time in Huron
Feb.
6 to Feb. 12 were similar: 2,276

conducted in the Westridge subdiFarms similar to what was done

motorists
traveled between 26-30

Community
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vision and the radar unit is curin Westridge last summer,

mph
with 1,464 motorists doing the

rently being used to study traffic

on Keough added. The hope is that
speed limit or less, with 484 going

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Fifth Street.
the increased presence will bring
31-35
mph and 54 motorists going

Several village council members

36-40
mph.
further awareness to the residents

Speedy drivers warned to slow down

By Sean Dalton
Heritage Media

The message from village officials to residents and those traveling through the village is clear:
slow down before you hurt yourself
or someone else.
Motorists rate of speed in the
village proper has been a topic
of discussion at village council
meetings on and off for years now,
resulting at one point in taking special consideration to boost traffic
enforcement at contract time with
the Washtenaw County Sheriff s
Office.
The village is currently in the
process of using a stationary radar

were near apoplectic at the meeting, where the group went over the
Ryan Drive findings, which found
that most motorists are doing 5
mph above the speed limit.
The data shows that over both
weeks 12 percent of the cars were
driving in excess of 30 miles per
hour, Village President Shawn

regarding the need to follow traffic

laws.
The traffic study found that
between Feb. 1 and Feb. 7 approximately 2,282 motorists were traveling up to 5 mph over the posted
speed limit compared to 1,513 traveling beneath or at the speed limit.
During that same time period, 517

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The average speeds on weekend days and the early week days
were found to have higher average
speeds than other days in the week,
indicating that those are the days
when most of the speeders driving.
Village Councilmember Jim

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