The 2021 update of the Thomas Township Master Plan has been completed and is now available to view.  Please click on the link below.

2021 Update of the Master Plan

Appendix

Yard waste pickup begins this Friday, April 2, 2021. Please make sure containers are marked. Yard waste stickers are available at the Township office.

The 12th Annual Trash & Treasures Community Rummage Sales will be held July 15th – 18th 2021! 

Click the image below or here to get a registration form! 

you can return it to:

Thomas Township, Attn: Jennifer Holtman, 249 N Miller Road, Saginaw, MI 48609

drop it in our drop box out front or email it to operator@thomastwp.org 

Our website now has a page dedicated to “Hometown Heroes”, residents past and present who have had a  banner purchased to honor them.  These will be displayed along Gratiot Road on the streetlight poles.  Along with their photographs is a small explanation by those who honored these individuals as to why they are their “Hometown Hero”.    

Please take a look here to see these honorees.  Honored Hometown Heroes.

If you are interested in purchasing a banner for your “Hometown Hero”  please click here.

Just a reminder that when you are making any payments at the Thomas Township Office they must be in the form of check, cash or money order.  We do not accept credit or debit cards.  Thank you for your understanding.

Pursuant to guidance from the Michigan Health and Human Services due to COVID-19, all Thomas Township passport services are suspended until further notice.

Please follow this link to search for other available facilities https://iafdb.travel.state.gov/DefaultForm.aspx 

Excerpts from the Detroit Free Press

DON’T FLUSH WIPES DOWN THE TOILET, Officials Warn

While it makes sense to buy disinfectant wipes, hand sanitizer and facemasks during the COVID-19 pandemic, toilet paper has been flying off the shelves too, leaving many confused and toilet-paper less.

People have already started using common alternatives like wet wipes and cutting paper tower rolls into pieces.  While the substitutes are creative, it’s important to remember that these innocent alternatives will cause serious consequences because only toilet paper should be flushed down your toilet. 

Personal wipes are especially misleading because they are often labeled “flushable” but they can clog sewer pipes and create “fatbergs”- enormous piles of goop, grease and garbage in the sewers.  In 2018, a 100-foot long, 11-foot-wide, 6-foot-thick fatberg weighing 19 tons was found in southeast Michigan’s Macomb County.  This fatberg restricted flows and damaged sewer lines.  It cost the County about $100,000 to remove.

Please don’t flush baby wipes, cleaning wipes, tissues, paper towels, dental floss, cotton balls or swabs, cat litter, grease, prescription drugs or cigarette butts.  All of these have a tendency to collect in your sewers and will clog it.  Remember, just because it says it’s “flushable” doesn’t mean it is.  My two-year old’s stuffed Tiger was flushed down the toilet along with a few plastic army men.  Guess what?

To view the 2019 Saginaw Region Water Quality Report, click here.

Brush Drop Off Dates for 2021 are as follows:

April 2021 – 3, 10, 17, 24
May 2021 – 1, 8, 22
June 2021 – 5, 19
July 2021 – 10, 24
August 2021 – 7, 21
September 2021 – 11, 25
October 2021 – 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

Brush may be taken by the homeowner to the Township brush drop off site located at the northwest corner of Gleaner and Frost Roads.  No stumps, leaves, grass or commercial brush will be accepted.  The site will be open from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.