Ortonville resident Kent Bailo may have been away from coaching wrestling for 18 years, but he still had a bird’s-eye view of the sport. Bailo, who works full-time at General Motors in Pontiac, was a high school and college referee during that time span. Now Bailo is being asked to call upon his coaching and […]
The title of the Beatles? song ‘Come Together? is appropriate to describe what the Brandon girls basketball team accomplished at a recent camp. About 25 members from the varsity and junior varsity teams traveled to Northwood University for a team basketball camp July 18-20. Brandon competed with eight other teams in the camp. The varsity […]
Brandon Twp.? At least five coats of paint covered her face, her arm was cracked and mold covered most of her body. Yet, for more than 25 years the four-foot statue of a robed lady survived. A gift from the Brandon High School Class of 1968 which had once occupied the Harvey-Swanson Elementary school building, […]
Ortonville – Ortonville Night at the Movies, was everything Paul Zelenak, Ortonville village manager, hoped and planned for it to be. A resounding success! On Friday, July 25 more than 300 parents and children snuggled into blankets and beach chairs for a nostalgic night of a drive-in feature on the grounds of H.T. Burt and […]
Atlas Township and Goodrich residents will have a chance to make history when they head to the poll on Tuesday. Local voters, along with Flushing Township voters will be the first in Genesee County to utilize the new M100 Optical Scan Election System and Software voting system. Using a pen or pencil voters will blacken […]
After 14-year-old Steven Crowder was killed last June when a car struck the bicycle he was riding on Heights Road, one of his teachers at Scripps Middle School turned to music to work through his grief. The result was “The Comet,” a song former Scripps teacher Carl Zoolkoski wrote in memory of Crowder. Zoolkoski taught […]
The Orion Township Fire Department responded to a fire at a home on Bald Mountain on Aug. 11 after some rags in the basement began to smolder. All three Orion Township Fire Department Stations were dispatched to the home at 4:54 a.m. According to Orion Township Fire Chief Jeff Key, the homeowners had been doing […]
A little more than midway down and all of the way west in the ‘mitten? part of Michigan lies Ottawa County. This county is rich in its farming tradition. And, just like in our area, those once rich in farming, sooner or later become rich in housing developments. Some, like the eco-terrorists of the Earth […]
SUMMARY CITY COUNCIL MEETING July 28, 2003 Meeting called to order at 7:04 p.m. by Mayor Catallo. Roll. Present: Catallo, Clifton, Gamble, Meyland, Savage, Werner. Absent: Colombo. Minutes of July 14, 2003, accepted as presented. Agenda accepted as presented. Resolved That all new rentals of the Gazebo for weddings be set at a rate of […]
Many years ago I asked Lake Orion’s eminent guru and handyman Bud Schaar to hook up a building to the town’s sewers. Some weeks went by with no action. I called Bud to ask why. He said, ‘I’m like the government. First you have to name a committee then appropriate some funds.? He started right […]