Brandon Twp.-The Brandon School Board accepted the resignation of two longtime teachers at the May 10 school board meeting. Margaret Hall earned a Bachelor of Arts from Central Michigan University in History, with minors in Art and Political Science. She also earned a Masters of Arts degree in Social Studies, with a minor in art […]
Kim Banycky of Lapeer and Steve Roberts of White Lake announce the engagement of their daughter Cortney Elizabeth Roberts to Troy Douglas Smith. The bride elect is a 2000 graduate of Clarkston High School, and 2004 graduate of Michigan State University. She is a first-grade teacher in Grand Ledge. The future groom, son of Doug […]
Freedom One Investment Advisors of Clarkston is dropping PIMCO’s Total Return Fund from its clients? 401K accounts. ‘We’re out of the derivatives game,? said Donald I. Gregg, Freedom One chief investment officer. Derivatives are used in futures markets, in which investors earn large returns if the market is good, but lose if it’s not. PIMCO […]
Diane Ridley, Assistant Store Director at Bueche’s Food World, says that after more than 12 years at the Ortonville store the number of applications are perhaps the highest ever. ‘We went for a long time and had few applications, now there seems to be an overabundance. The range of applicants include youth just turning 15 […]
Ortonville – Based on a recommendation from Village Manager Paul Zelenak, the council members opted not to spray mosquitos in the village this year. However, in an ongoing effort to prevent the spread of the West Nile Virus, the village will attempt to kill mosquito larvae, or eggs, instead of killing the mosquitos. Although not […]
Clarkston varsity cheerleader Lacie Turnbull has a super time cheering on the Wolves at the Halloween themed football game. Photo by Laura Colvin
‘Tis hunting season, so a scatter-gun column In 1898 a bike path from Toledo to the Straits was proposed. The editor of the Lapeer, (Michigan) Clarion editorialized, ‘I hope it passes.? Modern needles came into use in 1545. President Lincoln called 90,119 men from Michigan to the Civil War from April 15, 1861 to April […]
Accourding to the Oakland County Health Division, the West Nile Virus was found in birds and mosquitoes in Oakland County, in the summer of 2001. In 2002 there were more than 219 confirmed cases of people infected with the virus, and 20 deaths in Oakland County. By the summer of 2003 Oakland County experienced a […]
Brandon Twp. – Brandon Township residents can no longer burn at will, and Brandon Fire Chief Bob McArthur says, it will be good for everybody. In April 2003 the township began issuing yearly burning permits, accompanied by a calendar of scheduled days residents can burn. McArthur says the system has worked out. ‘We’ve had minimal […]
There are many lads and lasses in these parts, who are old enough in years (yet young enough at heart) to remember this laugh, ‘Nee-aahahaahaaa!? Growing up in the Detroit television market during the 1970s, I was one of the legion of kids who saved Saturday afternoons for one show, and one show only — […]