Clare cops protect and serve doughnuts

Fri, Jul 3, 2009

CLARE (AP) — The Clare Police Department's nine full-time employees recently purchased a local bakery, the Morning Sun of Mount Pleasant reported.

The newly renamed Cops & Doughnuts store debuted Wednesday. It offers cookies, muffins and merchandise including a T-shirt reading "You Have The Right to Remain Glazed."

Officer Al White said the officers were concerned when the Clare City Bakery's owners decided to throw in the towel.

The 113-year-old bakery would have become the sixth empty storefront in Clare's three-block downtown.

The officers were on hand for the bakery's grand reopening, but have hired a manager and will employ local students as staff.