Even in small towns, getting to know your neighbors can be difficult. This is why we have created a new series, Meet your Neighbor, to help you get to know some of the faces around the Cassopolis community.
Roseann Marchetti has been a Cass County commissioner for the last seven years, a job in which she wears many hats. As a resident of Edwardsburg and Ontwa Township for 19 years, she has many insights to share about the community.

What do you do as commissioner?
A commissioner has many duties, besides serving on a number of boards and commissions. As a member of the board of commissioners, I help develop and adopt the annual county budget, audit the county claims, adopt the equalization of tax assessments, appoint members of boards and commissions, review and adopt grants, review and set policy, and set the county tax rate to name a few of the duties of a commissioner.

What is your favorite part of the job?
Too many to list, but I do enjoy it when someone calls with a problem, and I am able to help.

Why do like living and working in Cass County?
Cass County is a great community with beautiful scenery, parks, lakes, farms, churches and most of all kind and caring people.

What do you do in the community outside of being a commissioner?
Scott Scheel, Jerry Marchetti and I have a program called Commodity Day which is a once a month delivery of food and cheese to senior citizens. I serve on the Edwardsburg Uptown Improvement Association Board, the Edwardsburg Sports Complex Board and the Edwardsburg Chamber of Commerce and am a lector at Our Lady of the Lake Church.

What is one thing that you would like people to know about you?
I lived in a number of different places. [My husband] Jerry and I moved quite a bit with his job, once moving three times in four years. This is my favorite place to live, and I have a great interest and affection for this community.