The Goodrich School Board voted 4-3 to stay with the state’s schools of choice program for the 2011-2012 school year. By opting into the state’s schools of choice program, Goodrich joins the Fenton, Genesee, Swartz Creek and Westwood school districts in opening up enrollment to students from other districts, which allows an unlimited influx of […]
Michigan Department of Natural Resources fish biologist Joe Leonardi reported that about 6,000 Brown Trout were planted in the Kearsley Creek last week in sections of Atlas Township. The 6-inch fry were released at Kent, Oakwood and Kipp road bridges. The fish should reach the 8-inch legal size by August, he said. The releases are […]
The Goodrich School Board is expected to formalize about 20 layoff notices to school employees, including a significant number of teachers, at the school board meeting at 6 p.m., April 25. The cuts are necessary to rectify a $2.2 million budget shortfall. ‘Class sizes will be larger and will vary from 29 to 32 students […]
The Atlas Township board of trustees offered a preliminary bid to share services including sewer fee collection, tax collection, building inspection and code inspection for the Village of Goodrich at the board of trustees meeting on Monday night. The presentation was prompted by Goodrich Village Council President Patricia Wartella who attended the township meeting on […]
In the autumn of 1861, they gathered on the banks of the Flint River near the eastern limits of the city. Camp Thomson was formed, comprised of the 10th Infantry? 997 men from Genesee and Oakland counties who were training for Civil War battles to the south. Among the volunteers were men from Goodrich and […]
At approximately 2 p.m., March 11 Martina Campbell along with 15 members of Edgren High School track team passed through the Japanese eastern port city of Sendai on the Bullet Train’heading south to Tokyo. At about 3 p.m.’just one hour later’a 124-foot wall of water, following a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, raced over the seawalls six […]
A pair of old black boots, a Union belt buckle and musket balls? a few of the Civil War relics on display at the Old Mill in Ortonville. The historical artifacts belonged to some of the 15 area Brandon Township residents who served in the Civil War. April 12 marked the 150th anniversary of the […]
Groveland Twp.-A medical marijuana dispensary company that is eyeing opening a facility in the township was raided last week at their Walled Lake location. The Caregivers of America dispensary was raided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency on Monday. No details were released by the DEA. In January, Sean Robinson, a spokesperson for Caregivers of […]
Two out of three local townships have seen an increase in the number of residents in the past 10 years. Population growth has occurred in Atlas and Brandon townships, while Groveland Township has seen a dip. The number of minorities including Asians, blacks and Hispanics, increased in all communities, according to the new 2010 U.S. […]
Even with the right mix of warm days coupled with cold nights, Jim and Faith Aseltine still say Mother Nature decides when their hundreds of sugar maple trees relinquish sweet sap. ‘If it’s too cold or too warm during the day, the sap just stops running,? said Jim, 80, who has been tapping sugar maple […]