Brandon Twp.? Rotting teeth. Needles shot into destroyed veins. Burned spoons. Grieving parents holding photos of their deceased children. Gravestones. These were the images that flashed upon two large screens in the darkened Brandon High School gymnasium Dec. 10 as several hundred students watched. Music from loud speakers filled the gym, including Eric Clapton’s song, […]
It ain’t over til it’s over. The results of the primary election were officially certified by the Oakland County Board of Canvassers this week, but a recount of one Brandon Township race is forthcoming. Additionally, write-in campaigns in the November general election are still possible. The board of canvassers confirmed the election results Tuesday. On […]
Brandon Twp.- Alan Blackburn is building a legacy. Blackburn is only 17, but he looks forward to a time far in the future when he can bring his children to the park at Oakwood and Hadley roads and show them what he helped construct. The township community park, which opened in May, is fairly barren […]
Brandon Twp.- Courtney Jenko snapped more than 5,000 photographs during a six-week stay in Africa, but it still wasn’t enough. ‘I took my camera and thought I could capture Africa, but you can’t,? said the 21-year-old member of Seymour Lake United Methodist Church. ‘You have to go and experience it.? The senior at Rochester College […]
Brandon Twp.-Books and quiet are expected to be found at a library. Damaged furniture and phones, vandalized restrooms and rowdy kids are not. The Brandon Township Library has been facing the latter scenario for the last two years, says library director JoAnn Gavey. The problem stems from huge numbers of kids from the adjacent Brandon […]
When Russ McMartin came to Brandon High School to be the band director in the fall of 1998, the band had 55 members. Now, six years later, the number of students enrolled in band has more than doubled to 130 and is expected to rise to about 150 band students for next fall. More than […]
Alicia Kottman will be spending her spring break in a tropical location like thousands of high school students do every year. She’ll snorkel, ride horseback, and go to a luau while in Hawaii. But the Brandon High School freshman will also do something that no other Brandon High School student is doing and few other […]
Brandon Twp.-Jessica Laviolette is on the go. She’s going to the International Science and Engineering Fair in Arizona in May. She’s going to Harvard University this summer. She’s going to get a patent. The Brandon High School junior is fueled in part by ambition, intelligence and… ethanol. Laviolette came to Brandon from Delaware, where she […]
Brandon Twp.-Jessica Laviolette is on the go. She’s going to the International Science and Engineering Fair in Arizona in May. She’s going to Harvard University this summer. She’s going to get a patent. The Brandon High School junior is fueled in part by ambition, intelligence and… ethanol. Laviolette came to Brandon from Delaware, where she […]
Brandon Twp.-Jessica Laviolette is on the go. She’s going to the International Science and Engineering Fair in Arizona in May. She’s going to Harvard University this summer. She’s going to get a patent. The Brandon High School junior is fueled in part by ambition, intelligence and… ethanol. Laviolette came to Brandon from Delaware, where she […]