Atlas Twp.-On April 20 the township board of trustees voted 4-1 to pay Matt Hart a salary of $45,000 per year as building inspector. Shirley Kautman Jones, township supervisor voted no. Trustees Barry June, Patrick Major along with Clerk Teri Onica and Treasurer Anne Marie Moore voted yes. In addition Hart will be compensate for […]
At a special school board meeting on April 29, AdvancED recommended Goodrich Area Schools for accreditation for a five year term ending June 30, 2020. The final report will be issued in 30 days. ‘We are pleased to have accreditation for another five years,? said David Cramer, school board president. ‘However, there are aspects we […]
Groveland Twp.-It was a phone call township Bob DePalma was not expecting. On April 15 a township resident reported seeing a white tiger near their home. ‘At first I thought’well maybe the resident was seeing a really big white dog,? said DePalma. ‘So I sent out the township ordinance enforcer and the Michigan State Police […]
Dave Gerber can’t remember if he bumped his head. ‘I’m really not sure if I did or not’I was wearing a helmet,? said Gerber, 55, a motorcyclist for about a decade and former helicopter pilot. ‘But anything you survive is a story you can tell. My story is, ‘Damn, I’m glad I’m alive.?? Gerber, a […]
Goodrich-On Wednesday, during a special meeting of the Goodrich Area Schools Board of Education, a Quality Assurance Review (Q.A.R.) was presented following a three-day survey of the district. The Q.A.R. exit report completed by AdvanceEd, accreditation, research, and continuous improvement in a customized way to 27,000 public and private schools and districts across the United […]
Groveland Twp.- Area residents will now have a means to be notified in case of local emergency following a change in procedures from the local cable provider. Township Supervisor Bob DePalma was notified in September by Comcast it will no longer offer the service of ‘cable override? as a venue to disperse local emergency information. […]
Atlas Twp.- The neighbors of Amos Spahnie and Carla Lipari-Spahnie must have eaten well. During the past year the township Spahnies have been perfecting a recipe for banana bread and utilized those nearby to taste the mix’edging ever closer to perfection. ‘We just kept asking folks what tastes right,? said Amos, 52. ‘Some mixtures were […]
As a student attending Waterford Mott High School, Leslie Coffer joined the school’s Optimist Club as a means to just get out of the house. ‘Once I got started, I found it out it was very satisfying and I really enjoyed the club,? said Coffer, 18. ‘When I moved to Brandon as a junior I […]
Army CW3 Mark A. Layne II, a 1994 Goodrich High School graduate, is currently stationed at Speicher Air Force Base, northwest of Tikrit in Iraq, serving as a Blackhawk pilot. This is Layne’s third deployment? his first two deployments were from Fort Campbell, Ky. with the 101st Airborne Air Assault. His current deployment is with […]
Lincoln embossed on a tattered black silk ribbon ‘a somber memory reflecting an assassination that spiraled a nation into grief. According to news reports, shortly after 10 p.m., April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln. As Lincoln slumped forward […]