Brandon Twp.- Reformation of a recreation subcommittee will retain two of the current members, but add three new ones and will take a page or two from the fire authority. ‘It’s obvious things are not working in the best interest of the committee or recreation,? said Bob McArthur at the township board’s Oct. 6 meeting. […]
Ortonville- Boots, a 4-year-old black and white pit bull mix, appears to be an affectionate dog. He accepts petting and gently nuzzles a new visitor to a Brandon Hills Manor apartment off Oakwood Road in the village, where he lives with owners Michael Williams and Jennifer White and their two young children. White says they’ve […]
Ortonville- The village may be on the cutting edge of fashion? joining places like Chicago and Boston in cultivating a native plant garden; however, some village councilmembers just want the garden cut. At their meeting July 27, the village council approved by a 4-3 vote a motion to ask the group that tends the garden […]
The former manager of an Ortonville gas station has been charged with embezzling more than $100,000 from the business. Carin Day was arraigned Sept. 25 in front of 52-2 District Court Judge Joseph Fabrizio on three charges of embezzlement? the first for embezzlement over $100,000; the second for embezzlement over $50,000 but less than $100,000; […]
Atlas Twp.- If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. ET Rover, the company that is proposing a natural gas pipeline currently slated to go through this township, took this popular proverb two steps further and after failing to gain permission for a land survey not once, not twice, but four times, finally succeeded […]
Brandon Twp.- A 34-year-old woman was injured this week after being dragged and then struck by a vehicle driven by her husband. According to an Oakland County Sheriff’s Office report, Brandon deputies responded at about 2:03 a.m., Sept. 28, to a mobile home in the 3800 block of Redbud Lane for a felonious assault with […]
Brandon Twp.- After nearly two and a half hours of deliberation behind closed doors, the township board came out of a closed session at a special meeting Monday night and made the unanimous decision to terminate Christine Fisher as a township employee. Fisher, an administrative assistant at the Brandon Fire Department, and township employee for […]
Ortonville- For the past eight years, Sharon Voyer has invited students to participate in the annual Ortonville CROP Walk with her, in an effort to build a sense of community within them, as well as raise money for a good cause. ‘I want to get them thinking about being good citizens,? said the fourth grade […]
Brandon Twp.- When the Brandon Academy of Arts and Sciences opened a year ago in the district’s former H.T. Burt Elementary, 30 students were enrolled. The academy finished the school year with 65 students and when the doors opened for the start of the school year earlier this month, 90 students entered, tripling their numbers […]
A group of Ortonville youths now know the literal meaning of working ‘in the trenches,? after a trip to Jamaica. The usual tourist destination was a mission trip for 29 teens and six adults from Hillside Bible Church, who spent the week of July 11-18 in Catadupa, a village located in a mountainous region that […]