By Shelby Stewart Staff Writer Brandon Twp.- At the regular township board meeting on Monday, Brandon Fire Chief David Kwapis gave his 2019 year-end fire department report.Brandon Fire Dept “For the year, we ended up on the highest call volume that we’ve had to date,” said Kwapis. “Of those alarms, we transported 712 patients.” In […]
On Jan. 31, at 3:08 a.m., Brandon deputies responded to a report of assault and battery. Deputies were dispatched for a woman crying and asking for help. Deputies made contact with the woman, who said she had gotten back from a local bar and got in bed to go to sleep when her boyfriend, Zaky […]
By Shelby Stewart Staff Writer The Brandon Fire Department is getting new turn-out gear. The purchase was approved by both by Brandon Township and the Village of Ortonville. “Turnout gear should be replaced every ten years,” said Brandon Fire Chief David Kwapis. The current gear for the department is 13 years old. “We actually have […]
By David Fleet Editor Groveland Twp.- On Wednesday night at a special township meeting the board of trustees voted 5-0 to OK a plan to advert a fire department funding shortfall and keep the department run by the township. In December, the township board of trustees examined the structure of the fire department, the long […]
From left Gracie Britton, Grace Colgan and Chloe Colgan, race down the sledding hill at the Brandon Township Community Park, 1414 N. Hadley Road. Photo by Patrick McAbee.
By Shelby Stewart Staff Writer Ortonville- On Monday night, the village council voted unanimously to go out for engineering bids for a repair to the Crossman Park drain. The flooding of Crossman Park and the neighboring residences has been a problem for months, and a resident spoke at the meeting about the issues it has […]
By David Fleet Editor Groveland Twp.-The dust has been kicked up over proposed statewide legislation that would prohibit local ordinances banning mining if certain criteria were met. In August 2019, Mich. Sen. Adam Hollier-(D-Detroit, District 2) introduced Senate Bill 431 backed by the gravel industry, that would remove most of the jurisdiction of local government […]
Top left, Ava, 6, Maya, 10 and Aidan, 8 McDowell build a snowman in Goodrich Tuesday. About six inches of wet snow covered southeast Michigan over the weekend. Photo by Patrick McAbee.
By Shelby Stewart Staff Writer Experts are advising that anyone writing out a date not abbreviate the year as 20, but to write out the full year, 2020. The reason being that if someone were to write a date, such as 1/25/20, anyone could add two numbers to the end of 20 to change the […]
By Shelby Stewart Staff Writer Ortonville-Area businesses have something to cheer about following this past holiday season. On Nov. 30, Ortonville hosted their Small Business Saturday event in conjunction with hundreds of communities in a county-wide program. A total of 106 of the 2,066 county-wide entries registered during the ShopTextWin contest were from Ortonville. The […]