Off the Map

Dexter's trial by bureaucracy

by Natalie Burg

posted 12/27/2011

"It shouldn't necessarily be easy to become a city," says Dexter's assistant village manager Courtney Nicholls as she rifles through a large box of papers in the village offices in downtown Dexter. "But I think it's possible for it to be a struggle without it being this drawn out."

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