By David Fleet dfleet@mihomepaper.com Detroit — The 2024 Goodrich Martian Division 4 State Championship football season is now just a little sweeter. The Detroit Lions have named Tom Alward of Goodrich High School the 2024 Detroit Lions High School Football Coach of the Year. The award followed a 35-6 Martian win over Niles for the D4 […]
By David Fleet dfleet@mihomepaper.com Goodrich — Martian Girls Varsity Basketball Head Coach Jason Gray waited 259 days for an opportunity to reach an amazing sports pinnacle. On Tuesday night the Lady Martians tipped off the 2024-25 season with a 67-25 win of Flint Metro League foe Kearsley Hornets notching Gray’s 500 career win all at […]
Groveland Twp. — Earlier this summer the Ortonville Cemetery Association added a new columbarium bookcase style niche, a structure that holds cremated remains of the deceased. Thanks to a generous anonymous donor, the original octagon style columbarium located on the south side of the cemetery installed about 30 years ago is nearing capacity. Each niche […]
By David Fleet dfleet@mihomepaper.com Atlas Twp. — A Goodrich Middle School seventh grade student is now stepping out in style. Bella Freimark was announced the winner after more than 90 classmates entered a school-wide contest earlier this year to use their talents to design shoes. Ryan Dukes, a Michigan resident who specializes in customized sneakers […]
By Shelby Stewart-Soldan ssoldan@mihomepaper.com Brandon — Recently, the Brandon Township Public Library received a donation of a life-sized bronze colt statue from the family of Brandon Township resident and library patron Catherine Wagner, who died on Sept. 10. “I live in Alaska, and every time I came down there, we’d always end up at the […]
By David Fleet dfleet@mihomepaper.com Brandon Twp. — In September on Mount Desert Island near Bar Harbor, Maine a 14 year, 1,310 mile trek came to an end for Brandon Township runner Randy Purol. “Running is way more mental than physical,” said Purol, 52. “Train your mind, not just your legs, it is way, way too easy to stop.” Purol recently completed his […]
Flint — In what has become as much of a holiday tradition as parades, football and a Thanksgiving turkey, the 13th Annual Skaff Save & Share event will once again take place Friday, Nov. 29 through Monday, Dec. 2. Over the past dozen years, this annual event has helped raise more than $215,000 for local […]
By David Fleet dfleet@mihomepaper.com Lorenzo Suter is on a mission. “When you come from homelessness you have a sense of urgency,” said Suter, who was recently named president and CEO of McLaren Oakland, the Pontiac-based hospital with care locations throughout Oakland County. Suter assumes the role, replacing president and CEO Tracey Franovich, who transitioned to […]
By David Fleet dfleet@mihomepaper.com Oakland Cty. — After more than 37 years in public service a local fire investigator has retired. Det. Howard ‘Chip’ Schultz, who investigated more than 700 fires in Oakland County stepped down earlier this month. A 1986 Ferndale High School graduate, Schultz was first employed at ParaMed Inc, and later earned […]
By David Fleet dfleet@mihomepaper.com Groveland Twp. — In October 1977, Brandon Township farmer Harold Shelton was dredging a pond along an existing creek bed. During the excavation two local teenagers found in the dredged soil part of a skull, teeth and a portion of a tusk of a 12,000 year old American mastodon. Paleontologists for […]