At a meeting on March 24, Comstock Township trustees voted four to two in favor of recommending that the state not renew supervisor Ben Martin’s liquor license for his business Soil Friends, a farm stand that makes and sells hard cider.
That’s based on a decades-old township ordinance that prohibits elected officials from being “interested” in the production or sale of “alcoholic liquor.”
The Board of Trustees does not have the authority to rescind a liquor license — that power belongs to the Michigan Liquor Control Commission. Instead, the board voted to recommend that the commission decline the renewal of Martin’s license…