A Quick Tour Of Mullett Township

Mullett Township News & Views-Promoting Open Government in Mullett Township

There is also the Mullett Township Party Line or you make drink the Kool-Aid from the Topinabee Development Association "Artesian" Well

Mullett Township is a general law township in Cheboygan County, Michigan. The population was 1312 in the 2010 US census. The township and Mullett Lake are named for John Mullett, who with William Burt, surveyed much of the area between 1840 and 1843.

The commercial center of the Township is the quiet unincorporated Village of Topinabee located on the west shore of Mullett Lake on M27 highway. The village is a trailhead for the DNR Trail with off-street parking and restrooms.

The village has a Post Office, Convenience Store with gas pumps, Public Library with 24 hour outdoor WiFi, an artisan-owned woodwork shop, a breakfast cafe and a bar and grille. Township owned buildings include the Library, Township Hall and Fire Hall, and an unused former school building on Lea St.

Recreation needs are served with a beachfront park and covered picnic area, free public boat launch at the north end of the village, a small public access to Mullett Lake across from the Nokia Cafe and tennis court, ball-field, and playground equipment at a public park located up the hill on Lea St.

The east side of Mullett Township is largely rural, with no commercial development. Township services include a Fire Hall and volunteer East Mullett Lake Fire Department.


Monday, December 8, 2014

TDA Park Competes For The Big Art Prize Award


The Topinabee Development Assocation has brought wide-spread publicity to Topinabee with the new TDA Park.



The poor, unwashed and uneducated masses lament the loss of the large mature oak and maple shade trees. Tom O'Hare says the poor "locals" are simply "adverse" to "change".

The TAC swings, enjoyed by all age groups have been replaced by more challenging recreational features. 


Back-flips off the climbing wall are popular.
 
 For the younger children, playing outside the safety fence is fun.



 
To reach the beach, if you are elderly or infirm, the TDA Park encourages you, in fact forces you to walk about 700 feet. Points are deducted for using wheelchairs. 



The "Too Grand" staircase challenged these kayakers. No need for a kayak rack if the kayakers can't drag their kayak up and down these hazardous steps.
They left. Like others have.
The TDA now states the new park is so busy that additional parking is required. None of these trucks belonging to ice fishermen will be found in the lot.

 The poor, unwashed and uneducated locals will instead be entertained and amused again by Supervisor MaryAnne Gale's latest snow-fence installation.
I think the extensive use of seemingly random snow-fence is in fact an "Installation Art Exhibit" by a wanna-be artist. 
Someone is lonely for the arts and culture scene available in Grand Rapids and other larger and more refined cultural centers. 
This Grand Rapid Art Prize installation by mixed media artist Richard Morse is called "“Stick-to-it-ive-ness: Unwavering pertinacity; perseverance."
We could also label Supervisor MaryAnne Gale's latest snow-fence installation “Stick-to-it-ive-ness". It exhibits her unwavering tenacity and perverse desire to destroy a village to blindly build Tom and Mary O'Hare's dream.

All of Tom O'Hare's "Grand Plans" for an aesthetically pleasing Topinabee Village lead to the same place as his now closed "Too Grand" staircase and the annual snow-fence farce.

  No where