By David Fleet Editor Goodrich-On Monday night Sheri Wilkerson, village administrator, confirmed the award of a $40,000 grant from the Michigan Department of Transportation Small Urban Road program. As a result, Pontiac Street between Hegel and Erie streets will be milled and filled in 2025. The Small Urban Program provides federal Surface Transportation Program (STP) […]
By David Fleet Editor Brandon Twp.-A landmark family-owned orchard is on pause this fall. For more than a half century years Sharon and Dennis Ashton, owners of Ashton Orchard 3925 Seymour Lake Road have raised apples in the Brandon and Independence townships. However, earlier this fall Dennis was diagnosed with spinal stenosis—arthritis, a condition caused […]
By David Fleet Editor Hadley Twp.-Army Pvt. Howard Brandt recalls the war torn rural countryside of Europe in 1945. “We sailed from the United States and landed in Le Havre, France,” recalls Brandt, who just celebrated 98th birthday. “They loaded us troops on cattle cars pulled by a steam locomotive. It was a rough ride […]
By David Fleet Editor Holly Twp.-In September, Madison Heights-based Shannon Precision Fastener began construction of a fastener manufacturing facility just north of Groveland Township. The 170,000 square foot, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility currently under construction near McClelland Road and I-75 is expected to be operational by early 2023 and employ 80 to 100 people. Water and […]
By David Fleet Editor Goodrich-The village has grown. The Village of Goodrich population was tops in Genesee County according to the U.S. Census 2020 results, released earlier this year. The community grew by 8.7 percent or 162 people to 2,022, followed by Grand Blanc Township 6.2 percent, the City of Clio 4.6 percent and Atlas […]
By David Fleet Editor Atlas Twp.- On Oct. 18, the township board of trustees voted 5-0 to approve the disbandment of a special assessment district for Gale Lake residents. A petition was distributed to the 24 residents on the lake and 13 property owners signed the petition to discontinue the SAD. Following a review by […]
By David Fleet Editor A current Goodrich School Board trustee who also serves with the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office was honored recently for his actions as a detective/fire and arson investigator. Det. Howard ‘Chip’ Schultz, a school board member since 2011 was one of two honored Oct. 22 for solving a series of arson fires […]
By David Fleet Editor Goodrich- From about 11 p.m., Oct. 4, to 4 a.m., Oct. 5, the Genesee County Water and Waste Services reported a sanitary sewer overflow of approximately 68,000 gallons of highly diluted raw sewage into the Cartwright Creek. The creek is adjacent to the Kearsley Creek. According to the report, filed by […]
By David Fleet Editor Ortonville-On Oct. 1, 1991, the first Tuesday of business for Papa Bella’s Pizza, 425 Mill St., tallied four orders generating a grand total of $37 for owners Mark Bell and Joe D’Anna. “I was 29 years old then and that first day was the scariest day ever,” said Bell, now 60. […]
By David Fleet Editor On Jan. 10, 1951 the population of Oakwood grew by four residents. That day on the east side of Brandon Township, now more than 70 years ago, Kenneth Rosebush, 36, a stone mason, and his wife, Anne, 34, gave birth to quadruplets at St. Joseph Hospital, Pontiac. Kenneth, Krystal, Keith and […]