A single mother and her two children will be new homeowners thanks in part to volunteers from a local church. Members of Seymour Lake United Methodist Church will assist in building a home in Pontiac with Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County and as part of the 2005 Jimmy Carter Work Project. In February, SLUMC […]
Brandon Twp.-Ed Burns hated school. With a passion. He was ‘half-way decent? in math although he had a difficult time with all of his classes. He played football and basketball, but eventually was kicked off the team because of his grades. He failed the first semester of ninth grade. Although he was passing the next […]
Grand Blanc Twp.-Tara Acquisti doesn’t look like your average hospital patient visitor. She walks on four legs, is furry, and wears a harness. When she enters Genesys Regional Medical Center on a recent Tuesday morning, she barks, announcing her arrival to anyone who hasn’t already noticed her. Tara is a 7-year-old yellow labrador retriever and […]
Brandon Twp.- A 9-year-old Davisburg boy died May 30 following injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. Nicholas Michael Walls was riding a Yamaha TT R-90 dirtbike at about 1:39 p.m. Memorial Day on his grandfather’s property on Victorian Drive when he struck a barbed-wire fence and was ejected from the motorcycle, said Oakland County Sheriff’s […]
Brandon Twp.- A fire that began in the loft area of a barn at the corner of Davison Lake Road and Hollyhock Road is under investigation. The barn’s owner was at a neighborhood party around 3 a.m. May 29 when he saw smoke coming from his barn down the road. He attempted to hold it […]
Brandon Twp.-Ed Burns hated school. With a passion. He was ‘half-way decent? in math although he had a difficult time with all of his classes. He played football and basketball, but eventually was kicked off the team because of his grades. He failed the first semester of ninth grade. Although he was passing the next […]
Ortonville- Memorial Day weekend 1999 was very memorable for Cindy Bridgeman. It was the weekend she had her head shaving party. Bridgeman’s husband and sister did the shaving, only weeks after Bridgeman had a cancerous lump removed from her breast and started chemotherapy. ‘I couldn’t stand the clumps of hair coming out anymore,? said Bridgeman, […]
Ortonville- Music, food, animals, crafts, water activities and more will be in abundance at the third annual Creekfest from 8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. June 11 at and around the Old Mill, 366 Mill St. The event, sponsored by the Ortonville Downtown Development Authority, is intended to educate citizens about the community’s watersheds, lakes and headwaters […]
Brandon Twp.-Jackie Harvey started her business, The Gift of Time, to help clients with errands and other tasks they have difficulty finding time for. Three years later, she has found her own way to have more family time while adding to her business. Harvey recently began offering infant daycare as another service of The Gift […]
Holly-It’s a cold, cloudy May morning and rain appears to be on the way, but the smiles of two Ortonville residents are bright as they practice for Olympic events. Laurie Borka, 43, and Bill Bossolono, 44, walk on a track at the Karl Richter Campus, the former Holly High School. They are preparing for the […]