Brendan Hunter will visit a mosque this coming week. Last month, he went to church and in November, he went to a synagogue. The 12-year-old self-identified Lutheran isn’t having a faith crisis or searching for a new place to worship. What he seeks is education and a better understanding of others with varying beliefs, something […]
A Groveland Township man who poached a deer in October will not serve jail time, but will lose the right to hunt for the next three years and has been ordered to pay more than $2,500 in restitution and fines. Nidal Khalil Haddad pleaded guilty Dec. 11 to taking a deer without a license and […]
Since 2002, Ortonville United Methodist Church members have traveled to a rural coal mining community in Kentucky seeking to improve the lives of the people living there. This year, eight OUMC members traveled to Wallins Creek, Ky. as part of the annual Red Bird mission trip. They stayed at a Girl Scout camp constructed around […]
Ortonville-Sanitary sewers or wastewater treatment system. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. The village council took another step toward improvement to the village by passing a formal resolution requesting assistance from the county at their Dec. 15 meeting. The resolution, unanimously passed, notes that the village is ‘in need of acquiring […]
Since 2002, Ortonville United Methodist Church members have traveled to a rural coal mining community in Kentucky seeking to improve the lives of the people living there. This year, eight OUMC members traveled to Wallins Creek, Ky. as part of the annual Red Bird mission trip. They stayed at a Girl Scout camp constructed around […]
Brandon Twp.- A new elementary and redrawing of district boundaries did not interfere with a smooth start to the school year here. ‘The first day of school went very smooth, there were no problems that I’m aware of,? said Superintendent Lorrie McMahon. ‘There are always a few glitches with the buses, but they were all […]
Brandon Twp.- Greg Allar served on the school board through what has been some of the most difficult years in the district. Elected to the Brandon Board of Education in 2006, Allar vacated his seat at the Dec. 15 board meeting, thanked by his fellow board members and Superintendent Matt Outlaw for his year of […]
A 4-year-old Brandon Township boy is expected to make a full recovery from a fractured skull he suffered in a single-car accident in which the driver, his mother, was found to be intoxicated. Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Harry Joseph, crash reconstructionist, said he will seek a warrant from the prosecutor’s office this week for […]
Residents of Brandon and Groveland townships will continue to contract for their own waste hauling services, despite the results of a months-long study that concluded citizens could realize savings and other benefits from community-wide waste hauling contracts. Brandon and Groveland were part of the waste hauling services study conducted by Resource Recycling Systems of Ann […]
Brandon Twp.-Judy Thurston has a bucket list which has increased in significance since she was diagnosed with cancer. When the former Brandon teacher climbed into the passenger seat of a semi-truck on Dec. 5 and rode away from the township to Dexter, she checked one more thing off her list, and added another happy memory. […]