Video provided by Goodrich resident Nick Layman By David Fleet Editor It looked like fireworks. Kim Sweeder, a Holly Township resident was driving near Burton on Tuesday evening when she watched a bright ball cross the sky. “There was a high pitched screech,” said Sweeder. “It was a very bright blue and the dark sky […]
By David Fleet Editor (Editor’s note, BHS student Noah Cox contributed to this story). During the very early hours of July 13, 1944, Coolidge Holt and his best friend Leo Flood were trying to get some sleep in the slip trenches they dug in on a battle field in Italy. “They both tossed and turned […]
By Shelby Stewart Staff Writer To most, the Italian Mediterranean island of Sardinia would be a vacation— but to Simone Spanu it’s home. Spanu, a 16-year-old Brandon High School sophomore and foreign exchange student from Italy arrived in the United States this past summer. “I just like work around, go to the beach,” said Spanu, […]
By Shelby Stewart Staff Writer In the event of a cardiac emergency, Goodrich High School is prepared. GHS is one of 369 schools in Michigan, and one of 35 schools in Genesee County, that has been given the MI HEARTSafe designation by the Michigan Departments of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). The MI HEARTSafe designation […]
By David Fleet Editor Atlas Twp.- When Audrey Lachenman was born on Dec. 18, 1917—the average wage was 22 cents per hour; it took five days to travel from New York to London and only 8 percent of Americans finished high school. On Monday, friends and family members gathered at Raspberry Manor to celebrate Lachenman’s […]
By Shelby Stewart Staff Writer Christmas in America will include plenty of firsts for Brazil native Gabriel Silva Texieira. The Brandon High School foreign exchange student is finding many differences from his South American tropical homeland where temperatures rarely dip much below 68 degrees and the massive Amazon basin dominates the country. The native language […]
By David Fleet Editor Brandon Twp.-On the night of Nov. 14 Scott Laga had difficulty sleeping. “I could hear helicopters flying over my house all night long,” said Laga, 46, a township resident. “I heard there had been a shooting nearby on Wednesday. I went to work on Thursday morning, but I was concerned about […]
By Shelby Stewart Staff Writer A Taiwan native is just now getting a taste of a cold Michigan winter. “I like the snow but it’s too cold for me,” said Brandon high school sophomore Pei-Hsuan Ming, a.k.a. Savannah. “Taiwan in the summer is 90 degrees every day.” Savannah is one 16 Brandon foreign exchange students […]
By David Fleet Editor For more than four decades, Goodrich resident Guy Adamec has molded a career as a master potter, builder and in his words—a “maker.” “We are so use to machine made objects we look at variations as flaws,” said Adamec, 66. “In reality those are the things that make it interesting. It’s […]
By Susan Bromley Special to The Citizen (The conclusion of, Mackinac Island: A charmed life, from the Nov. 18 edition.) Their first Christmas on the island, Judi even found that getting the artificial tree she wanted was easier than expected. She called the hardware store in St. Ignace and told them she wanted the last […]