By David Fleet dfleet@mihomepaper.com Troy — From March 23-24, the Brandon High School robotics team, Truck Town Thunder (T3) competed at the FIRST Robotics Competition tournament at Troy Athens High School. The competition included 42 high school teams where T3 placed ninth after the qualifying matches. T3 was seeded sixth for the playoff rounds however, […]
Plymouth — During its Salute to Journalism ceremony held March 14 at St. John’s Resort in Plymouth, the Michigan Press Association (MPA) announced the winners of their 2023 Better Newspaper Contest. View Newspaper Group received recognition with 124 awards and honorable mentions in categories for news and sports reporting and photography, column writing, advertising and […]
By David Fleet dfleet@mihomepaper.com Lake Orion — From April 4-7, the Goodrich Girls Powerlifting team is heading to the USAPL High School National power lifting meet in Baton Rouge. La. GHS Kyleigh Randall, Lilah Konkle and The Johnny Candiloro will be lifting in the Junior Varsity competition. Randall is seeking to defend the 2023 title which […]
By David Fleet 947-244-2647 dfleet@mihomepaper.com Atlas Twp. —On Monday night the township board of trustees voted 5-0 to accept the resignation of supervisor Shirley Kautman-Jones. She will step down March 31. The board then voted 4-0 to appoint deputy supervisor James Busch as interim supervisor to complete Kautman-Jones term which expires on Nov. 20, 2024. Kautman-Jones did not […]
By David Fleet 947-244-2647 dfleet@mihomepaper.com Ortonville — The Citizen newspaper was honored with 11 awards in the 2023 Michigan Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest, marking the 15th consecutive year of recognition in the state’s largest journalism competition. With the new awards announced on March 14, The Citizen has now received 82 MPA awards since 2005. With […]
By David Fleet 947-244-2647 dfleet@mihomepaper.com Atlas Twp.— On Monday night the township board of trustees voted 5-0 to participate in the replacement of the Henderson Road Bridge over the Kearsley Creek. The project with the Genesee County Road Commission, which should begin in 2027 will cost $2,199,000, of which Atlas Township will pay $302,000. The […]
By David Fleet 947-244-2647 dfleet@mihomepaper.com Atlas Twp. — On Monday night the Atlas Township Board of Trustees voted 5-0 to approve moving forward with the Kearsley Creek Interceptor project. The board approved the contract for the KCI and the KCI financing resolution. Atlas Township share of the bonds will not exceed $2,086,000 of the estimated $36,402,000 project. […]
By David Fleet 947-244-2647 dfleet@mihomepaper.com Atlas Twp. — Area residents seeking to assist area veterans can do so by looking for the “big red tubs.” The Goodrich United Methodist Church, 8071 S State Road, Goodrich have teamed up Davison-based Strength in Numbers in a grass-roots effort to provide a variety of items for area veterans […]
By David Fleet 947-244-2647 dfleet@mihomepaper.com Brandon Twp. — Born March 21, 1923, Irene (Majoris) Delasko, a long-time Brandon Township resident celebrated her 101th birthday last week with friends and family. Irene was born in rural Barnesboro, Pa. to Slovakian immigrants Catherine and Michael Majoris. The family lived in small coal mining towns before settling in Windber, […]
By David Fleet 947-244-2647 dfleet@mihomepaper.com Detroit — From March 14-16, Goodrich High School students competed in various aspects of marketing at the District 1 DECA, State Career Development Conference at the Huntington Place, Detroit. A total of 19 GHS students competed. DECA or the Distributive Education Club of America, energize students for college and career […]