Goodrich – A second village property owner is balking at what he claims are excessive fees for a one-time lawn mowing fee. Ray Toma, an attorney in Bloomfield Hills who owns two vacant village lots in the Fairview Estates subdivision, said he received an invoice from the village asking him to pay $150 in administrative […]
Goodrich- Emily Hansel is finally home and thanks to local volunteers, she has a new wooden ramp for her wheelchair. To welcome Emily home on Aug. 9, eight Atlas Township firefighters and seven Ortonville Knights of Columbus worked most of the day Aug. 2 to build a wooden ramp to help Emily’s mother and father, […]
Atlas Twp. – It’s not uncommon for Maggie, a 10-year-old golden retriever, to husk and devour a half dozen ears of sweet corn in one sitting. The corn eating canine may be chewing into the profits of Weil Dairy Farm, 9197 Gale Road, but farm owner Dan Weil is not all that concerned. There’s plenty […]
Goodrich – It may be standing room only in the bleachers on Aug. 28, when the Martians open their season against Richmond High School. SET SEG Insurance Company, the district’s liability insurance carrier, is asking the board to bring their football stadium bleachers up to their safety standards. In addition, they have asked that fencing […]
Hadley Twp. – In 1858, Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd state in the union, Forty-Niners streamed into the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, and a small congregation at Christ Lutheran Church met for the first time. Now, 150 years later, the oldest church in Lapeer County is ready to celebrate. On Aug. […]
Goodrich – In an effort to shave $80,000 from the school budget, five district bus drivers will be pink slipped. Interim Superintendent Larry Allen said less drivers will mean fewer bus routes. At the Aug. 11 school board meeting, Allen asked board members to combine elementary school bus routes’the change, say bus drivers, will bring […]
Goodrich – A field of seven candidates have filed their petitions in time to seek office for the three seats that are up for grabs in the Nov. 4 general election. Incumbent David Lucik, 61, has been a village council member for approximately 12 years. He graduated from Caro High School and received a bachelor […]
Goodrich – Erika Wallace, 18, has earned more than 100 badges on her way to the Gold Award, the highest honor a Girl Scout can achieve. Equivalent to the ‘Eagle Scout? award given in Boy Scouts, last year approximately 5,500 girls received the Girl Scout Gold Award’about 5 percent of the eligible registered Girl Scouts […]
Goodrich – Village founder, early Michigan lawmaker and village postmaster. Attributes of Enos Goodrich whose efforts to settle the area more than a century ago are forever etched in the community’s history. Recently, new information about the life and works of Goodrich, who died in 1897, were discovered in a safe donated by the great-great-grandson […]
Goodrich – It’s all in the beans. That’s the mantra of master roaster Kirk Walker, owner of A Bean To Go, gourmet coffee shop. The business has been drawing area traffic to their new location at 8221 South State Road. ‘The artwork in doing coffee is the roasting. That is what makes the final product […]