A delay has been granted in the hearing to determine whether East Bay Township Treasurer Debora Watson will stand trial. According to this Record-Eagle story, the 86th District Court has granted a 30-day adjournment of Watson's preliminary hearing. She is charged willfully neglecting her duty in the matter of the embezzlement of funds which has been charged to East Bay Clerk Jan Gee; former Township Supervisor Joseph Bartko has also been charged with misconduct in office for his involvement in the affair.

The Record-Eagle story linked to above has a good list of links giving the history of the case. It's an instructive one for Leelanau County, where few townships have instituted the kinds of safeguards experts say are needed to prevent embezzlement and other abuses.