The family of a patient struggling with cancer, a therapeutic animal farm, and an organization that sends supplies to canines serving overseas in the military will be the recipients of funds raised by students and concerned community members during the Brandon High School Charity Week. The BHS Student Council selects a charity annually for which […]
Brandon Twp.- Last school year, more than half of all students at Oakwood Elementary, 55 percent, were eligible for free or reduced price school meals. Families must fall below a certain amount of household income to qualify for their children to receive free breakfast and lunch at school, and such a qualification is an indicator […]
Brandon Twp.- Township employees and elected officials will receive wage increases as part of the 2014 budget approved by the board during their Dec. 2 meeting. The board approved the township’s 2014 general fund budget by a 4-3 vote. Supervisor Kathy Thurman, Clerk Candee Allen, Treasurer Terri Darnall, and Trustee Bill DeWitt voted yes. Trustees […]
Brandon Twp.- On Tuesday afternoon, it was a true group effort to decorate the Christmas tree at the Nature’s Way Adult Foster Care Home. For some of the clients at this home that serves mentally and/or physically challenged adults, there might be no presents under the tree without the compassion of the community and the […]
By Susan Bromley Staff Writer Brandon Twp.- Sand volleyball courts, and possibly a basketball court may be coming to the township park, 1414 N. Hadley Road. During their Dec. 2 meeting, the township board approved a motion to apply for a grant that would fund two sand volleyball courts, a linking pathway and the necessary […]
Brandon Twp.- Most couples have several months to prepare for a baby. Matt and Lindsay Bailey had about six hours. The township couple’s son, Joshua Daniel Bailey, was born Nov. 22 with barely any advance notice to his parents, who were unaware Lindsay, 31, was pregnant. ‘We will have quite a story to tell him’he […]
Community members are invited to give input regarding attributes they would like to see in the next Brandon Schools superintendent during a community forum planned for 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 11 at central office, 1025 S. Ortonville Road. The Brandon Board of Education has secured the services of the Michigan Leadership Institute to assist the […]
Brandon Twp.- The opening of Oakwood Elementary next fall means a reconfiguration of school boundaries in the district. But in an effort to honor parents? wishes, school officials plan to allow students to attend the school of their choice for the next four years so they can remain with their friends. The plan applies to […]
Three fundraisers are being planned for Pam Neff, the Goodrich High School dance team coach who was in a rollover auto accident Feb. 22. Neff, a single mother of four children, Felicia, 16, Anthony, 11, Cameron, 5, and Tanner, 3, remains in the intensive care unit of a local hospital with extensive injuries. While she […]
Atlas Twp.-Carol Powers has four ancestors who fought for the Union in the Civil War. James B. Hatch, her great-grandfather, was a captain? he married and had six children before the war; When his first wife died, he married Powers? great-grandmother and had seven more children, including Powers? grandmother, the next to youngest. James E. […]