Ortonville- Alice Marsh recalls that during World War II, her mother kept a flag with a blue star on it in the front window of their home. The star represented Alice’s brother, Ed Burton, who was serving in the military. Alice married Gerald Marsh, who also served in World War II, as did his older […]
Groveland Twp.- Diane Salter usually gets together with family on Super Bowl Sunday. This year, she will be able to recount being a part of the pre-festivities for the big event. Salter, 45, who calls herself ‘a little bit of a football fan,? will display her own talents a week before the Super Bowl game […]
Groveland Twp.- Art Davis found his career path when he was 15, he just didn’t know it at the time. It was 1976 when Davis? parents opened a butcher shop in Lapeer. ‘I didn’t think I was learning anything at the time, but I was learning a trade,? says Davis, now 44 and a meat […]
Atlas Twp- An escalating cost for police protection announced last fall by township officials could result in a new special assessment for property owners. A police administrative board ‘comprised of two representatives from the township, two from the village and a township resident? is being created to address the issue. A similar police board was […]
Atlas Twp.-When Cathie Horan’s third grade class at Oaktree Elementary School returned to school Tuesday after the three-day weekend, they were shocked to learn pirates had taken over the classroom. There, at the front of the brightly light classroom , was a flag bearing the skull and cross bones made infamous by the eye patch-wearing, […]
Brandon Twp.-It has been a tradition of winter since buses first rambled the wintery roads of rural communities. In the early morning hours students and parents gather by televisions, radios and computers screens waiting for the magic words that sends kids back to bed, parents scrambling for babysitters and bus drivers a day off. Snow […]
Ortonville- Barbara Wilk was a cheerful, light hearted woman. Even when she was diagnosed in late 2001 with myelodysplastic syndrome, a fatal disease in which dysfunctional blood cells are produced in the bone marrow, Wilk simply accepted it as another day, something else to deal with. The former village councilwoman and co-owner of Sherman Wilk […]
Mrs. Sherwood’s third-graders at Clarkston Elementary took a classroom lesson and turned it into a caring outreach to a fellow Clarkstonite. Josh Valenti, a 2003 graduate of Clarkston High School, is currently stationed in South Korea on military duty for the United States Air Force. Sherwood heard about Valenti from Wendy Burleigh, a literacy aide […]
For the first time since the Artist of the Year award was established, the Orion Art Center has given the honor to someone whose primary medium isn’t painting. Betty Behm, a potter, will be formally honored (along with the 2006 Patron of the Year) at the Snowflake Ball on Jan. 28. The ball is at […]
Guys. Just like roses, guys by any other name, are still just guys. Black, white, pink or yellow; short, tall, fat or skinny, at any point in the history of mankind — excuse me, in the history of guykind — we guys are the same. I came to this conclusion, this certainty of life, after […]