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 […]
By David Fleet Editor On Wednesday David Coulter, Oakland County Executive, visited the Brandon Township Library to meet the residents and discuss ideas for the future. The county executive administers the government on a daily basis, proposes new programs and revamps existing programs. There are about 1.2 million Oakland county residents of which about 20,000 […]
By David Fleet Editor Atlas Twp.-She’s back. Township resident Genavieve Linkowski will appear for a second time on American Idol. After falling just short in the competition about two years ago—ABC producers requested an encore performance that will air in primetime on Feb. 16. “It’s not something I knew I would do again,” said Linkowski, […]
BHS Cole Pardon #5 attempts to block a shot on GHS Aidan Rubio # 1 during the Martian vs. Blackhawk game at Goodrich on Jan. 10. Goodrich topped Brandon 79-36. Photo by Kurt Schulte.
By David Fleet Editor A class action filed almost six years ago has been dismissed by a Genesee County judge. On Jan. 3, Circuit Court Judge Richard Yuille dismissed the lawsuit filed on July 25, 2014 by Flint Attorney Dean T. Yeotis. The class action was filed in the Seventh Circuit Court for a group […]
By Shelby Stewart Staff Writer Brandon School District has a bond on the March 10, 2020 ballot. The bond will deal with improvements to all of the buildings, costing a total of $19.5 million across all four buildings. “Just like our own homes, our buildings need to be maintained,” said Dr. Matt Outlaw, district superintendent […]