By Jackie Smith for the Times Herald

It wasn’t too long ago when resident Sandra Tannehill joked she lived happily in a bubble at her rural Wales Township home.

She didn’t follow much with local government. She didn’t attend meetings in other communities. And she definitely didn’t travel to Lansing to speak before lawmakers in committee.

Over the last year, however, she’s done all three — more recently joining Wales’ planning commission and becoming enmeshed in discussions about the impacts of wind and solar developments.

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