By Shelby Stewart Staff Writer Ortonville- On Monday night, the village council voted unanimously to go out for engineering bids for a repair to the Crossman Park drain. The flooding of Crossman Park and the neighboring residences has been a problem for months, and a resident spoke at the meeting about the issues it has […]
By Shelby Stewart Staff Writer Mark Bell described Thursday, Jan. 23 as a “semi-controlled mad house.” Bell is co-owner of Papa Bella’s Pizza, 425 Mill St., Ortonville. His partner, Joe D’Anna, has been in the hospital since Jan. 4 when he suffered a massive heart attack. “We’ve been partners for 29 years,” said Bell. “We […]
By Shelby Stewart Staff Writer Katelyn Ceccacci has a mission to help the environment, and sports are going to help her achieve that goal. Ceccacci, 17, is a senior at Brandon High School and she recently was recently named as one of the 120 finalists for a scholarship from the Michigan High School Athletic Association […]
YES for Brandon Bond Dear Editor, We live in Brandon and have two children who recently graduated from Brandon High School and two more still attending Brandon schools. Brandon is a special district with much to offer students and the community. Brandon offers a wide variety of academic and extracurricular opportunities; and yet is able […]
By David Fleet Editor Groveland Twp.-The dust has been kicked up over proposed statewide legislation that would prohibit local ordinances banning mining if certain criteria were met. In August 2019, Mich. Sen. Adam Hollier-(D-Detroit, District 2) introduced Senate Bill 431 backed by the gravel industry, that would remove most of the jurisdiction of local government […]
LITT, LINDA MARGARET of Flint, Michigan formerly of Rapids City, Illinois; died January 23, 2020. She was 72. Born May 31, 1947 in Davenport, Iowa to the late Otto and Alyce (nee: Machalek) Kinnemann. She is survived by two daughters, Tina (Kip) Early, Christie (Raymond) Minervini; one son, Creighton (Margaret) Litt; six grandchildren, Kanan, Jadyn, […]
Top left, Ava, 6, Maya, 10 and Aidan, 8 McDowell build a snowman in Goodrich Tuesday. About six inches of wet snow covered southeast Michigan over the weekend. Photo by Patrick McAbee.
By Shelby Stewart Staff Writer Experts are advising that anyone writing out a date not abbreviate the year as 20, but to write out the full year, 2020. The reason being that if someone were to write a date, such as 1/25/20, anyone could add two numbers to the end of 20 to change the […]
By Shelby Stewart Staff Writer OATS is partnering with local veteran groups to host a chili cook-off. “We’re a non-profit, and we have worked with veterans in the past and we are working once again to provide services to veterans,” said Fred Pellerito. “American Sportsman for Veterans, they provide recreational outings for veterans, mostly hunting […]
By Shelby Stewart Staff Writer Ortonville-Area businesses have something to cheer about following this past holiday season. On Nov. 30, Ortonville hosted their Small Business Saturday event in conjunction with hundreds of communities in a county-wide program. A total of 106 of the 2,066 county-wide entries registered during the ShopTextWin contest were from Ortonville. The […]