Groveland Twp.- After an estimated $1.5 million and five years, township officials are confident that residents will have lower home insurance rates and outstanding fire protection. According to township officials, following an extensive fire department audit last August, an ISO rating of four was awarded to the township. Previously, the township’s ISO rating was nine. […]
Brandon Township ranked eighth among 20 Oakland County communities that reported a decline in the average value of existing homes in 2006, according to a report issued by the Oakland County Equalization Division in January. Groveland Township posted a small increase, along with 32 communities in the county. According to the report compiled from 52 […]
A strong leader, coach, and mentor. That’s how friends and co-workers are remembering former Brandon High School Principal Edwin ‘Ed? Keenan Donaldson Ed died of complications from surgery Feb. 3, in Lakeland Fla. He was 64. Born Aug.19, 1942, Ed grew up in Lincoln Park as the oldest of three sons. He attended Olivet College […]
Goodrich- While some of the reverberations of a struggling state economy rippled through the village in 2006’several signs of a revitalization may be on the horizon, say village officials. ‘A few of our local businesses have closed down over the last year, but while we hear about those businesses, we often overlook the local businesses […]
Goodrich- For Jake Allen, nothing spells winter fun like zipping head first down a snow covered hill on a plastic sled. Yet for Allen, and other area youths that frequent the snow covered slopes of the Goodrich Country Club golf course’the wintertime rides may now be limited. ‘It’s a great sledding hill out on the […]
Brandon Twp.-School officials are bracing for a possible shortage of more than $1 million in the upcoming months’the results of an existing district budget shortfall and anticipated loss of per-pupil funding. School officials say the current $29 million district budget is about $500,000 short due to declining enrollment by about 38 students in September, a […]
Groveland Twp.- Jerry Leece could only watch as a woman dangled from a chairlift more than 20 feet over the snow-covered ski slope. ‘She was slumped over in the chairlift seat when she started to fall,? said Leece, a member of the Mt. Holly Ski Patrol for more than 37 years. ‘The man next to […]
Groveland Twp.- Jerry Leece could only watch as a woman dangled from a chairlift more than 20 feet over the snow-covered ski slope. ‘She was slumped over in the chairlift seat when she started to fall,? said Leece, a member of the Mt. Holly Ski Patrol for more than 37 years. ‘The man next to […]
Brandon Twp.- A new park, sewers and keeping miles of gravel roads smooth, are just a few of the goals Township Supervisor Ron Lapp has outlined for the upcoming year. ‘By fall, families should be playing in the new township park near Oakwood and Hadley roads,? said Lapp. ‘Although building projects have dropped in the […]
Brandon Twp.- School officials say a purchase agreement has been reached with the landowner of a 10-foot by-100 foot strip of land along Oakwood Road needed for a new Brandon Elementary School. The $17 million school project, set to start in March, had stalled after the Oakwood property owner balked at selling the property to […]