Brandon Twp.- If you missed your chance to be on the November ballot for two open seats on the school board, you have another opportunity to serve. Rob Privette, who has served as a school board member for nearly two years, announced his resignation effective Sept. 19. Privette is moving to Lansing, where he has […]
Brandon Twp.- Police are warning residents to take extra precautions after a recent spike in home invasions in the township. ‘Keep your doors and windows locked,? said Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Detective Dale Brown. ‘Over the last three weeks, there has been an increase in reported home invasions at all hours… The time of day […]
Ortonville- With the start of the new school year, bells are ringing in the halls of Brandon schools again. But soon a very special bell, one that hasn’t heralded the start of school in nearly 50 years, will ring again in its new home at the Old Mill, Mill St. The Ortonville Community Historical Society […]
Groveland Twp.- During the evening hours, or on weekends when most doctors? offices are closed, it can be inconvenient to have to drive to a hospital emergency room several miles away and wait hours to be seen. Now there is another option. Area residents will have access to emergency medical care close to home with […]
The Ortonville Community Emergency Fund has had ever increasing numbers of people for several years requesting their assistance to put food on their tables and pay the bills. Changes to welfare approved by state legislators last month and signed into law by Gov. Rick Snyder will take effect Oct. 1 and the local food pantry […]
Nearly 20 nominations and a plethora of volunteer activities in the community made Heidi Fluck the clear choice for the 2011 Citizen of the Year. Heidi, a Brandon High School senior, is the youngest ever Citizen of the Year, but at just 17-years-old, she has dedicated more hours to volunteer work than many people do […]
The birth of Samuel Joseph Quisenberry at 2:40 a.m., Sept. 4 wasn’t anything like his parents, Colleen and Joey Quisenberry, imagined it would be. It wasn’t induced like the births of their daughters, Lilly and Emma. There was no epidural or any painkillers whatsoever. And, most surprising of all, their son was born not in […]
Three area teens will attain the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest honor a Boy Scout can achieve, after completing community service projects. Christian Stevenson, 15, a Goodrich High School sophomore, put in more than 100 hours on his project, a 10-foot-high by 12-foot-wide covered wood sign placed at the Goodrich Lions Club, located on […]
A 25-year-old man who had been living with a Brandon Township family for about a year stole a gun from their home and used it to kill an Independence Township woman and wound her husband before turning the gun on himself, ending his own life. Oakland County Sheriff’s Office detectives say Matthew Stephen Adair stole […]
A 56-year-old Brandon Township man has been charged with sexually assaulting a township girl. The abuse allegedly began when the girl was 9-years-old. She is now 14. John Edward Woolley was arraigned Aug. 29 on three counts of criminal sexual conduct, first degree, a life felony, by 52-2 District Court Magistrate Thomas Raguso. According to […]