A past treasurer of the Goodrich Sports Boosters is suspected of embezzling $50,000 from the group’s account. The suspect, Tonya Ann Yannaki, 46, of Linden, was lodged in the Genesee County Jail on Wednesday on felony charges of embezzlement after she confessed to taking the money between October 2005 and September 2007. Sgt. Joe Parks […]
Ortonville-Acie Anderson, 43, a village resident and local attorney, has shot two Michigan black bears since he began hunting bears with dogs in the early 90s. ‘It’s the sport of the chase,? said Anderson, who owns three plott hounds for bear hunting. ‘It’s about working with the dogs and running the bears. Taking a bear […]
A Brandon Fletcher Intermediate School student was diagnosed last week with a ‘staph? infection. It was later determined that it was not MRSA or Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, an infection that can be fatal. Family members of the student notified the district on Oct. 18 of the diagnosis. School officials sent home a letter with students […]
Atlas Twp.-The township board will consider charging an impound fee for vehicles towed from the township during law enforcement traffic stops. ‘Currently, it takes deputies three to four hours to drive a suspect downtown, plus waiting for the tow truck to pick up the vehicle,? said Paul Amman, township supervisor. ‘The cost of having deputies […]
Brandon Twp.- Area home sales followed the national trend and continued to drop sharply according to a report released last week. The eighth straight downwardly revised forecast from the National Association of Realtors, a trade group for real estate agents, predicted last week that U.S. existing home sales would be 10.8 percent below last year […]
Goodrich- Area police arrested five students last weekend in connection with vandalizing the high school early Friday morning. On Oct. 4, at about 11:45 p.m., Genesee County Sheriff Deputy Matthew McKay, posted at the high school, reported an alarm inside the school had sounded. At approximately 12:30 a.m., a second alarm went off and Deputy […]
Brandon Twp.-As a civil engineer and project superintendent, Shawn Champion has completed some rather complex buildings. His most recent accomplishment, a $40 million ‘clean-room? addition at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, designed to research and produce microchips along with providing nano-technology? was a three-year project that would challenge any civil engineer. However, for Champion, […]
By a 7-0 vote on Monday night, the Brandon School Board OK’d a gift from Coca-Cola of $14,000 to help purchase the school sign located at the entrance of the Brandon High School along M-15. Gary Kelley, Brandon Schools interim assistant superintendent, said the sign cost $47,250 and was installed this past summer. Other funding […]
The Brandon School Board OK’d an audit from the Flint-based auditing firm of Lewis & Knopf, CPAs, P.C. for the 2006-2007 fiscal year, at the Monday night meeting. The district earned the auditing firm’s best rating, achieving a ‘Clean? audit, indicating there were no exceptions or disclaimers. In a second phase of the audit, the […]
Ortonville-A piece of yellowed tape bearing the name of a Japanese soldier is still attached to the sheath of the polished dress sword. The illegible faded letters of the former enemy are unknown to village resident and Army World War II veteran Dane Guisbert’yet the memories of the late summer of 1945 when the weapon […]