When Ella Skrocki joined the Empire Village Council in 2024, she hoped to help build the future she wanted to see in her hometown. A year and half later, she found herself stepping away from both the council table and the village itself .
“It was unfortunately prompted by this defeating reality that I wasn’t able to live out my vision of being in my hometown,” she said.
Though she is originally from near Ann Arbor, Skrocki’s roots in the Sleeping Bear area and Empire is in her DNA. Her grandparents owned one of the homes that was grandfathered into the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and her family gradually transitioned north when she was young. By the time she was 8-years-old, Empire had become a permanent home.
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