‘Senior Financial Survival? workshop is set for 4 p.m., April 18-19, at Mountain Jack’s in Auburn Hills. During the presentation, Daniel Krug, certified senior advisor with Daniel Krug & Associates, will focus on challenges facing retirees today, including how to protect assets from catastrophic illness and nursing homes; how to lower or eliminate taxes on […]
Atlas Twp.-It’s spring time and Mike Gross is happy. For the past 20 years Gross, 36, has participated in the statewide spring turkey hunt near his township home? and like other years the long-time hunter is confident in a successful hunt.. ‘So far this spring we’ve seen lots of birds,? said Gross. ‘This month we […]
In three years as a journalist, Adam Neal has helped cover 100 murders (two dozen of which he was the sole reporter on), the aftermath of one hurricane and been in the midst of two other such storms. The 1999 Brandon High School graduate who works for the Vero Beach Press Journal in Florida has […]
Goodrich- Resident David Worley’s life is all about harmony. Literally. Worley is a member of the Flint Arrowhead Barbershop Chorus. The group will perform ‘along with the Sweet Adeline and Fermata Nowhere quartets? at 4 p.m., April 21 at the Raymond C. Green Center for the Performing Arts in Goodrich High School, 8029 Gale Road. […]
Goodrich- The Commons may become a warm-weather hot spot for locals this summer. Village council president Ed York announced during the April 9 meeting the council’s intention of revamping the Commons area near M-15 and Erie Street to draw the community together for some fun in the sun. The council is looking at ways of […]
Ortonville- A wedding dress made from a parachute is in an exhibit case on the upper floor of the Old Mill. It was November 1947 when Josephine Agnes Walsh was to wed Lester Oakley. At that time, the United States was still recovering from World War II shortages, and silk for a wedding gown was […]
Brandon Twp.- The Board of Education approved at their April 9 meeting the purchase of two land parcels that will clear the way for construction of a new school. The district will buy 75.03 acres located off Oakwood Road from Crystal Ponds of Brandon, L.L.C. at a price of $937,875. The board’s action ratifies the […]
Brandon Twp.- The Board of Education accepted at their April 9 meeting a recommendation from Skanska USA Building, Inc., the district’s construction management firm, to award four firms contracts under the bus garage bid package. Johnson and Sons Excavating Contractors of Goodrich will do sitework, site concrete and asphalt paving for $412,466.; J. Perez Construction, […]
Brandon Twp.- Booth space is still available for businesses at the Sixth Annual Greater Ortonville Area Chamber of Commerce Business Expo, April 26 at the Brandon High School, 1025 S. Ortonville Road. Expo tables are $150 each. For more information, call (248) 627-8079.
The Clarkston girls? golf team, after an eighth-place finish in the state look to make good on their last season, played in the spring. The golfers will be moving to the fall in 2007-?08, while the boys? golf team will move to the spring. Coach Larry Sherrill will have a young team this year, anchored […]