K-9 team continues success

Bodi strikes again. On March 19, Brandon Deputy Mike Garrison and his partner, K-9 Bodi, were dispatched to assist the Narcotics Enforcement Team with a vehicle stop on Hatchery Road near Airport Road in Waterford. Bodi alerted on a door seam and a roach was found in the second seat driver’s side ashtray. On the […]

Costa Rican-BHS exchange student returns for Easter

Ortonville- Isabela Llanso, 10, experienced snow for the first time last week, as well as Easter American-style. Isabela and her mother, Alejandra Monge, Costa Rican residents, were in the area for a few days to visit Kay and Lou Williams of Brandon Township and their daughter, Lisa LemMon of Goodrich. Monge was an exchange student […]

Local mom of nine competes for Mrs. Michigan crown

Brandon Twp.- Elizabeth McGhee wants women to know it’s OK to have a messy house, that they’re not the only one with a 15-year-old who tells them, ‘No way, mom,? that kids don’t always turn out the way you think they will, even when you think you’re doing things right. She wants them to know […]

Village council mulls Skate Park plans, meeting set

Ortonville- Spring is here, and with warmer weather there are more outdoor activities, but will there be activity at the Skate Park? Kay Green, village councilmember and chairperson of the Skate Park committee, plans to take a proposal to the village council at 7 p.m., Monday, March 24, at the Brandon Township offices, 395 Mill […]

Relay for Life of Brandon/Ortonville Kick-off Celebration

Brandon Twp.- When a quarter-size mass was detected in Marg Bovan’s annual mammogram in April 2006, she and her doctors weren’t overly concerned. The now 53-year-old had gone through biopsies twice before, with benign results. Her doctor and surgeon were confident it was scar tissue. But it wasn’t. Bovan was diagnosed with a very aggressive […]

BHS seniors Nevada-bound via Chicago website

Brandon Twp.- Brandon High School seniors Ahmad Dandachi and Chelsea Perry are bound for Reno, Nev., thanks to their website featuring Chicago. The students entered a website competition sponsored by Business Professionals of America and placed first regionally, and by virtue of taking second place at the state level, will compete against 100 teams nationally […]

STARS thriving locally; summer schedule proposed

Brandon Twp.- Evidence of success with the STARS program keeps turning up. STARS (Student Tutoring and Reading Sessions) began in September as a free after-school tutoring and reading program for students in grades K-4. The program that was initially geared to students residing in the Sashabaw Meadows and Clarkston Lakes Mobile Home Parks has now […]

Miller’s contract continues, board nixes extension

Brandon Twp.- The Brandon Board of Education meeting started on Monday much as it did last month? with a standing room only crowd. But while there were again questions from the audience about Superintendent Tom Miller’s performance, this time Miller and some boardmembers fired back, defending decisions from placement of the new high school parking […]

Keeping upbeat

Ortonville- The music of Frank Sinatra played on Tuesday at the Edna Burton Senior Center, and Katie Hobson played, too. Sitting on a chair, arms raised in the air, with a drumstick in each hand, the 86-year-old grinned as she struck a red exercise ball in front of her again and again as ‘New York, […]

Spring arrives this week after an extreme winter

Spring officially arrives this week, but be ready for more severe weather after one of the snowiest winters on record. ‘We have a system coming next week that could bring in misery,? said National Weather Service Meteorologist Bill Deedler last Wednesday. ‘Right now, models disagree on the track, but the storm could come in Tuesday, […]