Goodrich- By a 3-1 vote at the June 8 village council meeting Shannon McCafferty was appointed as a new member, replacing Tim Brannon who resigned last month for personal reasons. Pete Morey, Mark Baldwin and Rick Horton voted yes. Jacob Vick voted no. She will serve until December 2016. McCafferty has lived in the village […]
Atlas Twp.-Tom Nothhelfer, Jr. remembers the day he found the small metal box in the attic of his parents? township home. Following the deaths of Nothhelfer’s parents, Tom, Sr. in 1971 and Helen in 1980, the container was discovered. Inside the dust covered box were items his father had saved from his service in the […]
Ortonville-Larry Simms is set to fight on. On June 1, Simms Chevrolet was notified by General Motors that a contract would not be renewed for 2010. Typically, new vehicles would begin arriving on dealers? lots in August for the next calendar year’a given for owner Larry Simms after purchasing the dealership in 1992 from Owen […]
Jeremy Shellnut is perplexed. After a productive October deer archery season in Brandon Township, Shellnut was anticipating a stellar firearm deer season in November. ‘This year the deer rut turned off in early November,? said Shellnut, 37, a Brandon Township resident and area deer hunter. ‘Typically (the rut) goes through the November gun deer season’but […]
Yesterday it was ‘selfies.? Today it’s ‘dronies.? That’s how Romeo Durscher, director of education for Da-Jiang Innovations (DJI) the manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles or drones for aerial photography and videography, referred to a picture of Brandon High School students who gathered on Wednesday in the performing arts center. Durscher operated the drone that hovered […]
Atlas Twp.-It was Nov. 11, 1939 and the township board of trustees motion called for a public hearing for the purpose of organizing a fire department. A month earlier, the first fire truck was purchased from General Fire Truck Company of Detroit. At a cost of $3,888, a General Model 90c fire truck on a […]
Business owner, township planner, friend, and loving husband’Ed Thompson will be missed by his community. Thompson died June 9, 2015. He was 76. Thompson was born June 11, 1938 in Detroit to the late Goodenow and Ruth (nee: Hanning) Thompson. He married the former Arlene Foppes on Oct. 2, 1980 in Troy. He is survived […]
After 36 years of service in the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office reserve unit, Dennis DeCovich announced his retirement. ‘I have seen many changes over the years with the unit and I have had the privilege to work with many fine deputies over those years,? said DeCovich. After his graduation from the Oakland County Reserve Academy […]
Ortonville-Melissa Cardenas is rather pushy and refuses to back down from a fight. That’s a great thing when it comes to battling cancer. In the summer of 2000, Cardenas? mother, Diana Amrein, had been diagnosed with breast cancer and asked Melissa to join her in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk in Chicago. ‘It was […]
It may be time to slow down on area dirt roads once again. Early last month, Senators Nancy Cassis (R-Novi), Majority Leader Mike Bishop, (R-Rochester) and Deb Cherry (D-Burton) recently introduced a bill that would allow speed limits lower than 55 mph to be posted on gravel roads. Many residents along area gravel roads were […]