A Brandon Township man and woman suspected of assaulting a man in his home with a baseball bat on the night of May 3 were in 52-2 District Court on Monday. Shelly Klanke pleaded guilty to felony charges of assault with a dangerous weapon before Judge Dana Fortinberry. She will be sentenced on Nov. 4 […]
Atlas Twp.-Just before dark Sunday night, Coltan Hadsell, 11, made a great connection. The township youth shot his first deer from a tree stand while hunting on the family’s township property during the Youth and 100 percent Disabled Veteran Firearm Deer season Sept. 27-28. Hadsell, a sixth grade student at Goodrich Middle School, was hunting […]
Goodrich School District enrollment jumped to 2,211, an increase of 43 students compared to the 2007 count, while the Brandon School District lost 92 students following Wednesday’s count day. Higher or lower enrollment means an increase or loss in revenue for the schools. The Brandon School District will realize a loss of $673,072 base on […]
Ortonville-It’s been more than 50 years since the Ortonville Fire Department’s 1928 Ford Model A fire truck raced off to a blaze. While the firefighting days for the historical truck may be past, the memory of the first motorized fire truck owned by the Ortonville Fire Department will be immortalized. The 1928 Ford Model A […]
Overhead utility cables and large trees are typically a bad combination Village resident Robert Phillips is thankful today the inch thick wires which carry cable television and telephone service past his Granger Road house were strong enough to support the weight of a 20 foot box elder that fell during last weekend’s storms. At about […]
Groveland Twp.- One shot. That’s what veteran hunter Jason Wilton expects to have in a bear hunting season. ‘You get one chance’and that’s pretty good,? said Wilton, 30, a township resident and area firefighter. ‘You have to take advantage of the opportunity.? Yet this month’s hunting excursion to rugged eastern Ontonagon County in the western […]
A permanent memorial to honor 2003 Brandon graduate Pfc. Joseph A. Miracle, who was killed in military action July 5, 2007, was dedicated before the Sept. 12 Blackhawks football game. The board of education OK’d the memorial, which consists of a raised masonry flagpole base with an attached plaque, at the new Brandon High School […]
At about 11:30 p.m., Sept. 12, Michigan State Police from Groveland Township responded to the southbound lane of I-75 near the Grange Hall Road ramps after a 9-1-1 call that a body was in the southbound lanes of the highway. When troopers arrived, they found a 20-year-old female laying near the lane divider just off […]
The school board was expected to vote on Thursday to terminate a purchase agreement for a 170-acre parcel in Groveland Township for future school site expansion. Brandon School Board President Greg Allar said funding for the purchase, an estimated $2 million, would have come from the bond extension funds that includes a line-item for school […]
Groveland Twp.-Jim Bradford and Mark Austin claim their blood runs ‘green.? On Saturday the area pair will represent their devotion to ‘John Deere green? as members of the local Yesteryear Farm Tractor Club, joining more than 200 other tractor clubs from Michigan, Ohio and Indiana for the first annual Mackinac Bridge Antique Tractor Crossing. The […]