Officials grapple with school-worker crime list

A list of possible convicted criminals released to schools last month has seven Brandon Schools employees on it, a Brandon official reported last week. The public release of a list naming local school employees with convictions has been delayed following a Feb. 10 circuit court ruling on the matter. The information was blocked because of […]

Officials grapple with school-worker crime list

A list of possible convicted criminals released to schools last month has seven Brandon Schools employees on it, a Brandon official reported last week. The public release of a list naming local school employees with convictions has been delayed following a Feb. 10 circuit court ruling on the matter. The information was blocked because of […]

Gubernatorial candidate visits area

Ortonville- Consolidation of services, property tax reform and changes in education were just some of the issues discussed on Tuesday afternoon as Republican gubernatorial candidate Richard M. ‘Dick? DeVos, Jr. visited with area officials at township offices. DeVos, 50, an Ada, Mich. resident and former president of Alticor, Inc. (Amway Corp.), will run unopposed in […]

The first Brandon CERT ready following training

The newly-formed Brandon Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) members received certificates of training completion on Feb. 16. Ron Lapp, Brandon Township supervisor and Bob McArthur, Brandon fire chief presented the documents to 13 members of the team. The CERT will operate under the supervision of the Brandon Fire Department and is recognized by the U.S. […]

School board takes aim at key contracts

Brandon Twp.-The Brandon School Board approved a resolution to consider non-renewal of both the athletic director’s contract and community education director’s contract at the Monday meeting. A final vote will be on the agenda at the April school board meeting. If the board approves the measue, June Wuopio, community education director and Larry Lamphere, athletic […]

Area teen responsible for house fire

Brandon Twp.-A township teen was in court Tuesday on arson charges stemming from a 2004 township house fire. The teen who was 15 years old at the time of the fire appeared before Oakland County Circuit Judge Daniel O’Brien. The name of the defendant is withheld since he is a minor. After a short deliberation […]

Super Bowl Sunday not so super for some

Brandon Twp.-A Saturday evening snow storm just before Sunday’s Super Bowl has at least one business owner still seeing red. The early February storm that caused power outages to several thousand DTE customers in Oakland County the day of the big game cost Bullfrogs Restaurant and Bar, 2225 Ortonville Road, thousands of dollars in business […]

Diving the Straits:stories from the depths

By David Fleet Editor Rising about 50 feet from the surface of Lake Huron, Martin Reef Lighthouse marks a dangerous shoal east of the Straits of Mackinac. For young Cheboygan native Bill Duman, the solitary Great Lake lighthouse about 4 miles from the Upper Peninsula shore holds rather unique memories from the summer of 1936. […]

M-15, school traffic gridlock key in bond extension

Brandon Twp.-Denise Fortiner waits in about a quarter-mile long line in her white Jeep Cherokee for her daughter Lauren, an eighth grade student at Brandon Middle School. ‘If you’re not here at 2 o’clock’you’re stopping traffic out in M-15 with those picking up students from school,? said Fortiner. ‘It’s a serious situation.? Fortiner joins hundreds […]

Local mines expect more stringent regulations

Groveland Twp.- The tragedies last month in the coal mines of West Virginia resulting in the death of 16 miners has at least one are area mining safety director expecting more stringent enforcement of regulations. David Ax, safety director at Holly based Tri-City Aggregate with operations in Brandon and Groveland townships says absolute compliance is […]