Community mourning loss of political, environmental activist Ruth Munzel

Community mourning loss of political, environmental activist Ruth Munzel

Ruth Munzel, a Livingston County Democrat who worked alongside Republicans for over three decades to make sure elections were fair, died Oct. 18 at the age of 90. Anyone who followed politics in the community knew Ruth Munzel. I was lucky to know her from my time at the local paper. Her interests in the community ran from the environment to history to politics. Ruth was one of the 2022 inductees on the Brighton Area Women’s History Roll of Honor…