Few good options. That’s what former Goodrich resident Ken Wood figured when his local mortgage business was no longer lucrative and he needed to relocate to Cleveland for a new career. ‘I didn’t even try to sell my house,? said Wood, a 1985 Goodrich High School graduate. ‘I’d be in a world of hurt trying […]
Brandon Twp.-Township officials are taking aim at the current retirement plan which they say may not financially afford retirement-eligible employees the ability to retire with a sufficient income. The Brandon Fire Department has 13 employees with four eligible to retire in the next six years. The township administration has 22 full-time employees with five eligible […]
Groveland Twp.-At about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, township resident Mary Drouillard was awoken by her neighbor that a motorist traveling south on M-15 was involved in an accident with her two horses. Injured in the late night accident was ‘Tara,? a 12 year-old mare and a 20 year-old gelding ‘Olli.? Drouillard was boarding both horses on […]
Dustin Scriven’s photography is out of this world. Way out. Scriven, 20, a 2011 Brandon High School graduate and Oakland Community College sophomore, is a local astronomer and for the past few years has ventured out at night to remote locations to study the heavens utlizing a variety of telescopes along with precision photography equipment. […]
A former school building may be saved from demolition. Board members of the North Oakland Charter Academy (NOCA) are seeking to purchase the vacant Sherman Lifelong Learning Center, 300 Sherman Court from the Brandon School District to open a kindergarten through fifth grade school. Jeff Maxson, an NOCA board member, expressed interest in the facility. […]
Goodrich-Some light in the murky future of the century-old village dam was shed last week during a special meeting. Dave Anthony of WadeTrim engineers, along with the councilmembers and several village residents, gathered at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the village office to discuss approaches, restoration, and methods to preserved the impoundment of the village dam. […]
Ortonville- From helping establish a school library to scouts to teaching Sunday school, for more than half a century Martina Kier volunteered her time and skills to make this community a better place. Martina, 86 died May 3. Born in New Brunswick, N.J. in 1919, she earned a master’s degree in science from the University […]
Ortonville-On Wednesday morning about 18 Brandon Middle School students were up to their knees in a mixture of mud, water and a host of questions. The group of students from Dave Green’s seventh grade science class spent the cool, sunny spring morning collecting samples from Kearsley Creek near the M-15 bridge. Donning waders and sharing […]
Jason Bradley, 39, is a Groveland Township resident and has hunted bear across the Upper Peninsula since 2006, bagging three over that period near the village of Bessemer in Gogebic County in the western section. Bradley encountered a grey wolf during a September 2011 hunt. ‘On my way out to my bait pile, a grey […]
Atlas Twp.- A canine trained to provide comfort to others recently needed just a little assistance himself. A local family is thankful today after a neighbor, along with the township fire department, saved their dog Riley from the icy waters of Lake Shinanguag. Mark Trowbridge, owner of Riley, a 12-year-old Brittany spaniel, explained the dog […]