Heading into the busy holiday season, the Ortonville Community Emergency Fund has a new food pantry director, but her face will be familiar to OCEF clients and volunteers. Karyn Milligan has been named the new St. Anne Christian Services coordinator and OCEF food pantry director. After serving as OCEF president and volunteer coordinator for the […]
On Thursday, Nov. 1, at about 7:30 a.m. in Groveland Township at the corner of Oak Hill Road and Bird road, contractors for Enbridge were preparing to lay a replacement oil pipeline in the ground. In the pre-dawn darkness, headlights shined from heavy equipment. On the first day of November, the workers weren’t waiting for […]
Jacob Seelbach’s daily New York City commute from his apartment on 147th Street in Harlem to his job at New York University on 8th Street in Manhattan normally is about a 45-minute bicycle ride. On Wednesday, two days after Superstorm Sandy pummelled the East Coast, killing a reported 74 Americans, causing widespread flooding, power outages, […]
A 4-month-old boy was murdered by his mother’s boyfriend Oct. 25 in Brandon Township, police said. Donald Kyle Raleigh, 27, was arraigned Oct. 27 on one count of felony murder and one count of first degree child abuse, both punishable by life in prison, in front of 52nd District Court Magistrate Judith Holtz. He remains […]
Brandon Twp.- On Oct. 29, during what was their second to last meeting, the current township board discussed legacy costs and how they could reduce the bill that the township will bear in the future for employees? healthcare benefits. Toward that end, the board approved by a 5-1 vote a motion that full-time elected officials […]
Brandon Twp.- Police services here will be provided by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office through at least 2015. The township board unanimously approved at their Oct. 29 meeting a 3-year law enforcement contract with the OCSO. The agreement calls for 11.5 officers to be assigned to the townshp. ‘I am very pleased with the contract,? […]
Brandon Twp.- In their efforts to extend natural gas mains in the township, Consumers Energy has met a few roadblocks? namely, rocks. ‘Once we got out there and started working, we found the terrain extremely rocky and it slowed us down in boring the services,? said Consumers Energy Representative Debra Dodd. ‘We are hopeful by […]
A 4-month-old boy was murdered by his mother’s boyfriend Thursday afternoon in Brandon Township, police said. Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Pete Burkett, commander of the Brandon substation, said he expected the 27-year-old suspect to be arraigned this weekend. The exact charge(s) that would be brought was not determined as of Friday. ‘This case and […]
Brandon Twp.- The election is still over a week away, but as of Wednesday, nearly 800 voters here had already cast their ballots. Approximately 780 absentee ballots had been sent or turned in to the township clerk’s office by Oct. 24 and as of that date, a total of 1,615 had been given out by […]
In February 1944, a B-17 aircraft was attacked by German fighter planes and crash landed in the Mediterannean Sea just off the coast of Calvi, Corsica, France. Now, 68 years after the plane came to rest less than 100 feet below the surface, and less than 300 yards from shore, it is the mission of […]