When Gino Toreli completed his business degree from the University of Michigan-Flint last summer, the lower rungs of a corporate ladder was the last place he wanted to end up. So Toreli, a 2003 Brandon High School graduate pooled some cash and opened Island in the Sun Tanning, 1591 S. Ortonville Road’a tanning business featuring […]
Groveland Twp.-The future of an exotic animal business that operated for almost a decade under the radar of township officials as well as many neighbors is uncertain. On Monday night Township Supervisor Bob DePalma updated the community on Premier Animal Attractions, the 22-acre home to exotic animals such as tamandua anteater, red kangaroo, African serval […]
The annual stocking of brown trout in Kearsley Creek will include a few more fish this spring. About 6,000 brown trout are expected to be released into the Kearsley Creek in mid-May at three sites including the Oakwood Road bridge, Kipp Road bridge, and east branch of the Kearsley Creek at Kent Road. About 1,800 […]
An obsession with country music and driving huge pickup trucks. That’s how Emily Bretz, a 16-year-old junior high school student, from the capital city of Brisbane in the state of Queensland, Australia describes her impressions of America. ‘I just can’t stand hearing that music anymore,? laughs Bretz, who arrived in January to Brandon Township and […]
Goodrich-On Friday, May 1, Oaktree Elementary fifth grade student Donovan Stower had to change buses for the ride home after school. Stower, 10, had been assigned to school bus 2, instead he was instructed to ride bus 9. And for good reason. Unknown to Stower, his older brother, David Jeans, had boarded at the bus […]
After more than three decades of law enforcement’Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Deputy David Rheaume says it’s time to hang up the badge and retire. ‘I have loved every minute of my work in the Ortonville area,? said Rheaume, 59. A 1973 Dryden High School graduate, Rheaume earned a degree in criminal justice from Michigan State […]
Goodrich- It’s not a great picture. That’s how Superintendent John Fazer described the financial forecast spanning the next three years for the school district, during the Nov. 23 school board meeting. Despite a healthy $3.7 million fund balance concluding the 2008-09 fiscal year which ended in June, Fazer outlined a significant decline in funding through […]
Brandon Twp.-For more than 20 years, Jim Berta had been an area barber’clipping men’s and children’s hair from his Ortonville business known as Jim’s Barber Shop, 125 N. M-15. About a year ago, Berta had to step down from his barber duties due to an illness that required a lung transplant. Following the surgery, he […]
Last weekend area robotics teams took on the world. From April 23-25 both Goodrich and Brandon robotics competed at the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) World Championship in St. Louis. The three day event drew 800 robots and more than 18,000 students from 40 countries to the Edwards Jones Dome home […]
For Bill Snyder his 28th Boston Marathon looked a whole lot different. ‘You see a lot more of the course when you walk,? laughed Snyder, 71. ‘I have a new respect for walkers and all the spectators that lined the streets for hours on a cold, wet and windy day.? Snyder, an educator for 45 […]