Savannah Stedman isn’t a Harlem Globetrotter, but she is playing basketball around the globe. The 2007 Brandon High School graduate harbors no illusions about making a living as a professional basketball player, but for the next eight months, she will play pro ball? in Germany. ‘Basketball isnt going to be a long-term career,? said Stedman. […]
Over the course of the past four years, Carole Carroll has been delivering warmth and compassion to military service members and their families. The Addison Township resident founded Miracle Quilts in 2009 with a desire to give quilts to Americans who have served their country in the armed forces, most of them injured in the […]
Brandon Twp.- The township board unanimously approved the purchase of two parcels of property on Hadley Road during a special July 22 meeting. While the board has not reached any decision on what they will do with the land, the adjoining properties were attractive due to their size, 4.16 acres and 4.24 acres; price of […]
Brandon Twp.- If 300,000 barrels worth of heavy crude oil is to flow daily through a new pipeline, two 6,000 horsepower pumps will be needed here to aid it on its way. Each pump is only 3 feet high and six feet long, but they are causing plenty of controversy, particularly because a structure proposed […]
Ortonville- For decades, bringing sewers to the village has been little more than a topic of discussion from time to time. But years of all talk and no action are finally changing and sewers could be a reality within the village if the council continues on their current course. ‘In 50 years, we’ve never been […]
Brandon Twp.- Fred Waybrant is taking a vacation, but it won’t be a permanent one. The township recreation director fielded questions from township board members, maintained his composure and kept his job during an employee review hearing July 22 at the library. ‘In the first five minutes of the Q and A, I started to […]
The first day of school is more than a month away, but it’s on the minds of many, in good ways and bad. Karyn Milligan, director of the Ortonville Community Emergency Fund food pantry, has already had inquiries from some OCEF clients about receiving help with school supplies. ‘If they are already asking in the […]
Ortonville- The Batson family has some of the coolest kids on the block thanks to two local charities. When temperatures recently soared past 90 degrees, Jennifer Batson’s worries soared, too. She and her husband, Matt, have three daughters, Sidney, 7, Katerina, 2, and Ava, 3-months-old. Their middle child was diagnosed with epilepsy when she was […]
Brandon Twp.- Patrick Montgomery began a speech at the July 16 Brandon School Board meeting by quoting Abraham Lincoln. ‘Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher […]
Brandon Twp.- Julie Pretty felt a surge of emotion last month as history was made with two U.S. Supreme Court rulings that are widely considered as victories for same sex marriage. The court struck down as unconstitutional the Defense of Marriage Act, passed in 1996 and which only recognized marriage as between a man and […]