The Atlas Township board of trustees offered a preliminary bid to share services including sewer fee collection, tax collection, building inspection and code inspection for the Village of Goodrich at the board of trustees meeting on Monday night. The presentation was prompted by Goodrich Village Council President Patricia Wartella who attended the township meeting on […]
In the autumn of 1861, they gathered on the banks of the Flint River near the eastern limits of the city. Camp Thomson was formed, comprised of the 10th Infantry? 997 men from Genesee and Oakland counties who were training for Civil War battles to the south. Among the volunteers were men from Goodrich and […]
Brandon Twp.-The Brandon School Board voted March 8, to take no action on a resolution asking for the resignation of Janet Thomas, the last Oakland Schools Board of Education member remaining from the former superintendent’s tenure. The Board voted four to two (Kenneth Quisenberry, absent) regarding the resolution from the Oakland County School Board Associaton […]
Brandon Twp.-Two Brandon School District teachers were recently selected to participate in the 17th annual Oakland County Outstanding Teacher of the Year Awards program. This year 25 Oakland County School Districts participated, nominating 64 teachers from elementary, middle and high schools district wide. One from each of the three categories will be selected by April […]
At approximately 2 p.m., March 11 Martina Campbell along with 15 members of Edgren High School track team passed through the Japanese eastern port city of Sendai on the Bullet Train’heading south to Tokyo. At about 3 p.m.’just one hour later’a 124-foot wall of water, following a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, raced over the seawalls six […]
A pair of old black boots, a Union belt buckle and musket balls? a few of the Civil War relics on display at the Old Mill in Ortonville. The historical artifacts belonged to some of the 15 area Brandon Township residents who served in the Civil War. April 12 marked the 150th anniversary of the […]
Groveland Twp.-A medical marijuana dispensary company that is eyeing opening a facility in the township was raided last week at their Walled Lake location. The Caregivers of America dispensary was raided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency on Monday. No details were released by the DEA. In January, Sean Robinson, a spokesperson for Caregivers of […]
Two out of three local townships have seen an increase in the number of residents in the past 10 years. Population growth has occurred in Atlas and Brandon townships, while Groveland Township has seen a dip. The number of minorities including Asians, blacks and Hispanics, increased in all communities, according to the new 2010 U.S. […]
Even with the right mix of warm days coupled with cold nights, Jim and Faith Aseltine still say Mother Nature decides when their hundreds of sugar maple trees relinquish sweet sap. ‘If it’s too cold or too warm during the day, the sap just stops running,? said Jim, 80, who has been tapping sugar maple […]
In the early morning hours of March 27, 2003 Pvt. Douglas Newberry, boarded a troop plane in Italy heading for Basur in northern Iraq. ‘We jumped from our plane at 1,500 feet at night’I waited four seconds and my parachute opened,? said Newberry. ‘I landed in about three feet of mud with 130 pounds of […]