Due to budget constraints, for the second year in a row, Brandon Township is not participating in the NO-HAZ program, leaving residents without a designated place to safely dispose of household hazardous waste. ‘Communities are in these financial crises, I understand, but they have to get alternative information out to the community as much as […]
By Susan Bromley Staff Writer Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are sleeping outside after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated the impoverished island nation Jan. 12. The Ortonville Rotary Club hopes to help ease their suffering with assistance from the community. A Rotary charity, ShelterBoxUSA, is providing disaster relief by sending ShelterBoxes to Haiti. The 49-gallon […]
Brandon Twp.- The finance committee decided during their Jan. 25 meeting to recommend that the school board offer an early retirement incentive to school district support staff. The package would offer $20,000 to be paid over three years to secretaries, bus drivers, custodial and maintenance staff with at least 20 years of service in the […]
Brandon Twp.- An early 1900s bobsled that spent three decades in township resident Bill Rathburg’s barn has found a new home and glory at an Olympic museum in New York. ‘It’s wonderful,? said Elizabeth DeFazio, curator of the 1932 & 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum, where the restored bobsled is now on display along […]
Ortonville- The village council has taken various steps in support of a wastewater treatment system during the past few years. On Monday, they took another by approving 4-2 a resolution supporting a Downtown Development Authority resolution supporting the sanitary sewer project, as well as educational efforts of the Livable Legacy of Ortonville, a pro-sewer campaign […]
When the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus announced in March that they would retire all of their performing elephants by 2018, it came as a both a blow and potentially a warning bell for Colleen Pages. The 25-year-old has been around animals all her life, but has consistently worked with elephants for the […]
Brandon Twp.- Phragmites be gone. The common reed, an invasive species that can grow up to 20-feet tall in dense stands, is more than a nuisance. The plant obstructs the view of motorists, creates a fire hazard and chokes out wildlife in the wetlands where it grows. In an effort to eradicate phragmites, as well […]
Ortonville- The village council has taken various steps in support of a wastewater treatment system during the past few years. On Monday, they took another by approving 4-2 a resolution supporting a Downtown Development Authority resolution supporting the sanitary sewer project, as well as educational efforts of the Livable Legacy of Ortonville, a pro-sewer campaign […]
Brandon Twp.- School district officials have settled contracts with three employee groups and have reached tentative agreements with two more. The school board approved at their Aug. 17 meeting ratification of contracts with transportation, food service, and administrators in the district. Additionally, Superintendent Matt Outlaw said Tuesday the district appears to have tentative agreements with […]
Brandon Twp.-Trees for everybody. Everybody in the township that applied for one, anyway. Township officials approved in March the purchase of 143 sunset red maple trees to be given away in a lottery for township residents who applied for the tree. The deadline to apply was Aug. 14 and the township received 165 valid applications, […]