ALMA, Mich.—Mayor Greg Mapes sent a letter Tuesday to the city commission requesting to undo his recusal from voting on and discussing a controversial plan to turn a former nursing home owned by Masonic Pathways into a resettlement center for unaccompanied alien minors. Mapes, a long-time Mason, is an outspoken advocate for the project. Mapes’s…

ALMA, Mich.—Mayor Greg Mapes sent a letter on Sept. 7 to the Alma, Michigan, city commission requesting to undo his recusal from voting on and discussing a controversial plan to turn a former nursing home owned by Masonic Pathways into a resettlement center for unaccompanied alien minors. Mapes, a longtime Mason, is an outspoken advocate…