Ithaca downtown gets boost from resident's fortune he willed to the town

It's not every day a city gets a gift the size of the one Ithaca got from a late resident recently. It will go to pay for downtown development and senior services in the area.

Excerpt: Ithaca’s dream of getting a new downtown hardware store took a giant step closer to reality with the gift from an Ithaca man who left the city his fortune.

Bill Caldwell, who died in June, left 85 percent of his estate to the city and 15 percent to the Gratiot County Commission on Aging.

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Source: The Morning Sun
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