Argentine Township at a standstill as board deadlocks over clerk vacancy

Contractors may not get paid until a clerk is hired

ARGENTINE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Argentine Township officials remain deadlocked over appointing a new township clerk following the resignation of former Clerk Gwynne James, leaving one of the township’s key elected offices vacant.

Township Treasurer Norm Schmidt said James resigned after working in what he described as a difficult office environment while als…