Last month, as many area residents stayed inside for warmth or bundled up when they ventured outside in temperatures that dipped below zero, twelve brave souls plunged into a local icy lake. Intentionally. On Jan. 15, members of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Marine Dive Team, including Det. Nick Pung of the Brandon substation, conducted […]
When the bait hits the water in the eleventh annual World Ice Fishing Championship on Feb. 18-24 in the Minsk region in the country of Belarus? a local will be recording and producing the action. Kelly Gotch, a 1998 Brandon High School graduate and Ortonville native, will travel with the USA Ice Fishing Team as […]
Dear Editor, We need to dredge the two Clarkston Mill Ponds because they are the jewels of our Village! The sediment that is building up in the ponds is decreasing the beauty of our ponds and we the people of Clarkston need to stand up and protect them. Possibly, we could get money for the […]
Dear Editor, My wife and I had the opportunity to hear the Clarkston Children’s Choir perform on Tuesday, March 17. This is a volunteer choir of children ages 9-10 in the Clarkston schools. The elementary teachers volunteer their time, the children practice in the evenings and parents purchase shirts for the children. This is certainly […]
Hadley Twp.- Regardless of the frigid temperatures this winter, it’s rather balmy compared to where William Schiffel spent a few days in December 1968. The National Science Foundation gathered six reporters, which included Schiffel, then a staff writer for The Grand Rapids Press, for a briefing on the U.S. installations in Antarctica. Now, more than […]
Brandon Twp.- Locked doors help keep criminals out and they also help keep children in. An unsecured door ultimately led to a 2-year-old child being found alone outside in the snow recently amidst temperatures that were in the single digits. According to an Oakland County Sheriff’s Office police report, a Brandon deputy responded to the […]
Dear Editor, We would like to thank the American Legion, Independence Township Fire Department, Masonic Lodge, Bill Wint, and everyone else for helping with Harold’s funeral. Norma, Debbie, and Terry Goyette St. Clair
Dear Editor, I am a member of the Clarkston Rotary and in February of this year, I was fortunate, along with fellow Rotarian Jeff Lichty, to fly to the Caribbean island of Grenada on an eye care mission. The trip was a joint venture with VOSH, Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity. The primary mission of […]
Goodrich-On Monday night the village council OK’d a pair of proposals to help rectify the leaky century-old village dam. By a vote of 5-0 the village council moved forward with a proposal from Midland-based Gerace Construction for $43,925 to begin in early spring to determine the cause and repair the leaching village dam. Details of […]
Brandon Twp.- A proposed program in which the township would have the ability to hold on to up to $8,200 of insurance money in the event a home in the township burns, is meant to protect neighbors. A vote on whether to join the state’s Fire Insurance Withholding Program has been postponed to the township’s […]