Township library hosts: ‘Investing Fundamentals?

Brandon Twp.- Want to learn about investing without any sales pitch or pressure? The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services will present the free program ‘Investing Fundamentals? as part of Investor Education @ Your Library, from 10-11:30 a.m., Oct. 13, to be followed by an optional non-commercial counseling session. The library is located at […]

Residents reporting asphalt scam in community

Ortonville- Buyer beware. That is the message Larry Roberts, the public safety aide of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, has for local residents after recently hearing from two citizens who called the Brandon substation and said men had come to their doors offering to lay asphalt at a bargain price. Roberts says the men go […]

Council to replace all village sidewalks

Ortonville- It’s back to square one on the village sidewalks. The newly installed village council is scrapping plans to have engineering firm Rowe, Inc. evaluate sidewalks in the village at a cost of about $2,750. Instead, a sidewalk committee headed by Council Trustee Aileen Champion will walk the village and pick which street’s sidewalks should […]

Council: Bow hunting will continue in the village

Bow hunting permitted in the village By Susan Bromley Staff Writer Ortonville- Bow hunting will be allowed to continue in the village, both on private property and a 48-acre parcel of land owned by the village where two tree stands were removed last year. At the village council’s Sept. 24 meeting, the council took no […]

Flying the coop: homing pigeons on course for local

Brandon Twp.- When Robert Wilson drives to work at EDS in Detroit, he sometimes takes feathered friends with him, in the trunk. The birds don’t stay with him, though. As he starts his workday, they start theirs. He lets them go from the roof of his work building and they fly about 50 miles back […]

Local woman wanted in assault, violence

A Brandon Township man has been arraigned on a felonious assault charge after he attacked another man with a baseball bat, and his girlfriend is also wanted in connection with the incident. Brian Michael Koop, 18, was arraigned on Sept. 20 in front of 52-2 District Court Judge Kelley Kostin. Samantha Leighann Layman, 19, is […]

Another DDA member steps down amidst controversy

Ortonville- The Downtown Development Authority appears to be developing discontent among its members, with a second resignation letter turned in from a board member in as many weeks. In a letter to the DDA Board of Directors dated Sept. 16, DDA Secretary Sherry Regiani said she would resign effective Oct. 18. Her resignation letter came […]

‘Not too many people get a second chance…?

Atlas Twp.- It is rare for someone close to death to get even one second chance at life. Gail Seeling has had two. She owes her life to two strangers who lost their own lives, but in dying, gave a final, incredible gift? their organs. Seeling, 60, had two life-saving liver transplants as a result, […]

Man arraigned after motor vehicle assault

Brandon Twp.- A 28-year-old Ypsilanti man who drove his vehicle into his brother-in-law has been arraigned on a felonious assault charge. James Tiung Huie was arraigned Sept. 17 on the charge in front of 52-2 District Court Magistrate Elizabeth Chiapelli. According to police reports, Brandon deputies were dispatched on Sept. 16 to the 2800 block […]

Township man held in after attack with baseball bat

An 18-year-old Brandon Township man was expected to be arraigned on Thursday on a charge of felonious assault in a baseball bat attack on another 18-year-old man who resides in the same mobile home park. Police continue to investigate six other subjects also involved in the confrontation in the Clarkston Lakes Mobile Home Park, in […]