Lapeer — Leadership at View Newspaper Group is proud to announce the company’s 100+ Club Class of 2023. Each sales professional honored achieved more than 100% of their individual sales goals for the entire year of 2023. A dinner and celebration attended by View Newspaper Group leadership, the honorees and their guests was held at […]
By David Fleet 947-244-2647 dfleet@mihomepaper.com Flint — On March 8 and 9, the Brandon High School robotics team, Truck Town Thunder “T3 Team #68, competed at the FIRST Robotics Competition at Kettering University #2 event. T3, along with a field of 39 other teams, played in 80 qualifying matches of this year’s robotics game called […]
KENGERSKI, DONALD JAMES of Ortonville, Michigan, passed away on March 9, 2024. He was 93. Donald was born February 21, 1931 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Stanley and Headwig (nee: Janeczko) Kengerski. He married the former Margaret Weingartz on October 13, 1956 in Centerline, Michigan. He is survived by five children, Mary (Jon) Harris, Barbara (Michael) […]
Nora Buchanan with her haul of girl scout cookies from Troop 31 of Goodrich
By David Fleet Editor Brandon Twp. — In the fourth and final match-up this season on March 1, the Goodrich Martians Boys Varsity Basketball team defeated the Lake Fenton Blue Devils 66-48 for their fourth consecutive district crown with GHS Jr. Parker Lepla tossing in 23 points, 19 rebounds and five blocks. The Martians jumped […]
By David Fleet Davison— Perfection. On Feb. 29 the Goodrich Martian Girls Basketball team put finishing touches on a 22-0 perfect season by beating Davison 62-34. At 22-0 the Martians had the most regular season wins in Goodrich history and their fourth undefeated regular season in the last 25 years. Goodrich led Davison 43-8 at halftime with Lexi Kosmowski 13 […]
By David Fleet Editor Flint — On March 1-2 Kettering University, 1700 University Flint, hosted 40 high school robotics teams from across Michigan competed for the FIM Kettering University District Event #1 Championship title. The alliance of Goodrich More Martians Team #70, Corunna Team Fridgebot #5084 and Petoskey Paladins Team #3618 lost in the final […]
By David Fleet Editor Atlas Twp. — On March 2, two Atlas Township emergency sirens failed during a recent tornado touchdown and during the first Genesee County-wide test of the year a few days later. “Individuals were at each of the township’s five locations for the first test of the season,” said Shirley Kautman-Jones, township […]
By Shelby Stewart-Soldan Staff Writer Brandon Twp.— Police calls for service for Brandon Township are at 14,214 calls for 2023. That is an increase of 2,404 calls, or 20.4%, from 2022, according to the 2023 year-end report from Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Brandon Substation Commander Lt. Greg Glover. “The numbers are up quite a bit,” […]
By David Fleet Editor Goodrich— Donna Kirby has been homeschooling for 20 years and has been active in the local homeschool community. Over those years she has met and interacted with countless homeschool families across Genesee and Oakland counties. “Our local co-op, Hometeam, which brings people together from Ortonville, Goodrich, Grand Blanc, Davison, and beyond, […]