Brandon Twp.- A new ambulance, the relocation of a classroom, and a 16-foot trailer were approved as expenditures for the Brandon Fire Department at the Aug. 7 township board meeting. The new ambulance, a 2006 Wheelcoach, will cost $100,000, but Fire Chief Bob McArthur anticipates receiving $20,000 on a trade-in of a 1999 ambulance the […]
Brandon High School, 1025 S. Ortonville Road, Ortonville, announces the following registration dates and times for the 2006-07 school year: ‘Aug. 16-17 ? New Enrollments ‘Aug. 18 ? Seniors ‘Aug. 21 ? Seniors and Juniors ‘Aug. 22 ? Juniors and Sophomores ‘Aug. 23 ? Sophomores and Freshmen ‘Aug. 24 ? ninth-12th grade, last day to […]
The hunt for a new principal for Brandon Fletcher Intermediate School is back on after a recently hired candidate for the job decided to quit before he started. In July, Kurt Sutton a former elementary assistant principal in the Richmond School District was named the new Brandon Fletcher Intermediate School principal at last months school […]
Brandon Twp.- The M-15 Party Shoppe is on track to move? across the road. The township board unanimously approved a first reading of the rezoning of four parcels of land on M-15 from R1-B residential to C-1 local commercial. The request came from Mike Potvin, owner of the land, and Mike Toma, owner of the […]
Brandon Twp.- Jacqulyn Murray doesn’t think it’s anyone else’s business whether someone casts a ballot. She was surprised to learn that through a letter sent by a political consulting firm, some of Murray’s neighbors now know if she and other residents of Dunwoodie Court voted in August and November 2004. These same neighbors will likely […]
Brandon Twp.- Less than two months ago, Jmay Jacobs gave her son life? for the second time. Jerry Jacobs was born healthy Nov. 18, 1986 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Pontiac to Jmay and Jon Jacobs. But 15 years later, a sports physical gave the first sign his health had gone awry. His creatine levels […]
Brandon Twp.- When Anita Bakker accompanied her youngest son to his first day at a new school eight years ago, she thought she was in a third world country. In reality, she was in Oakland County. ‘When the kids wouldn’t do what they were supposed to, the teachers turned the lights off and had them […]
Editor’s note: Reporters Susan Bromley and Laurel Droz accompanied Brandon firefighters to a practice burn to experience a housefire from a firefighter’s perspective. What follows is a first-person accounting of that experience. Brandon Twp.- Delores Dunlap stands outside the 900-square foot home with the wood exterior on Burrus Road around 8 a.m. on Aug. 12. […]
Henna Eghbalian wants Americans to know that life in Iran is not as bad as they might think. ‘We’re not all riding camels,? laughs the 41-year-old Groveland Township resident and owner of Sormeh Salon in Brandon Township. Eghbalian, born and raised in Tehran, came to the United States to visit her brother in Clarkston in […]
Ortonville- A recall petition form against Village Council President Sue Bess has been filed with the Oakland County Clerk, albeit the incorrect form. Kim Noble, elections specialist for Oakland County confirmed that on Aug. 18, the county received the form petitioning for the calling of an election to recall Bess from her office. The reason […]