Ortonville- The results of 587 market surveys regarding the future of the community will be revealed at a town meeting, 7 p.m., Dec. 4, at the Brandon High School Performing Arts Center, 1025 S. Ortonville Road. The Downtown Development Authority sent out 5,000 consumer surveys in an April edition of The Citizen to village residents, […]
Ortonville- The village has a new Main Street Manager and Downtown Development Authority Executive Director. Janine Saputo was hired by the DDA board and began her part-time position on Nov. 14. ‘It’s exciting,? said Saputo. ‘There’s a lot going on and Ortonville has a lot of potential. I will pick up where Julie left off […]
Brandon Twp.- Just in time for Christmas, a new gourmet food and specialty shop is opening in the area. The Ortonville Smokehouse, 910 S. Ortonville Road, Suite 100, will open Dec. 1. The store is located in the former Oakridge Cabinets building, in front of Maximum Real Estate and Rison Construction. The store, owned by […]
Brandon Twp.- Jacob Bombardo, 7, won a brand-new bike last week. Minutes later, he announced to a gym full of cheering Belle Ann Elementary students his plans to give it away. Bombardo, a second-grader at the school, was rewarded with the lime green Magna Rip Claw bike for raising $700 for the school in their […]
Ortonville- Food offerings at Brandon Fletcher Intermediate School on Nov. 21, were, well, not the average fare. Instead of pizza or chicken nuggets, students dined on such entrees as squirrel stew, turtle soup, wild boar sausage, and venison chili as part of the annual Wild Game Feast. ‘I tried everything but venison,? said Jake Selak, […]
Brandon Twp.- The phrase ‘There’s no place like home for the holidays? has never had more meaning for Dylan Dean and Billy Westfall than it does this holiday season. The pair recently finished a year they’d just as soon forget. Dean and Westfall spent Thanksgiving 2005 in Iraq after being deployed last fall with the […]
Ortonville- For the third time, the Oakland County Election Commission will meet to hear recall petition language against Village Council President Sue Bess. The hearing on the clarity of the language is set for 11 a.m., Nov. 30, in the courtroom of Chief Probate Court Judge Barry Grant, 1200 N. Telegraph Road, Pontiac. Grant will […]
Ortonville- Michelle, a part-time working mother, knows the meaning of tough times. The village resident fought a battle with cancer six years ago, lost a job two years later, and is now separated and raising her two middle-school-aged sons on an income of $1,000 per month. She pays $600 a month in rent and worries […]
By Susan Bromley Staff Writer Brandon Twp.- It’s a tough time to be in the real estate market in Michigan. Nonetheless, real estate brokers Rick and Terri Robinson have opened Michigan Real Estate Associates, offering new options for buyers and sellers. ‘We decided if we were going to do the real estate business, we needed […]
Ortonville – In Michigan, 70 percent of parents improperly restrain booster seats. So says Bridget Hanigan, a community liason for Success by Six, which sponsored a free booster seat check at the Brandon Fire Station #1 on Nov. 10. Children over age four in Michigan are not required to use a booster seat at all, […]