Atlas Twp.-Tom Nothhelfer, Jr. remembers the day he found the small metal box in the attic of his parents? township home. Following the deaths of Nothhelfer’s parents, Tom, Sr. in 1971 and Helen in 1980, the container was discovered. Inside the dust covered box were items his father had saved from his service in the […]
Ortonville-Larry Simms is set to fight on. On June 1, Simms Chevrolet was notified by General Motors that a contract would not be renewed for 2010. Typically, new vehicles would begin arriving on dealers? lots in August for the next calendar year’a given for owner Larry Simms after purchasing the dealership in 1992 from Owen […]
Jeremy Shellnut is perplexed. After a productive October deer archery season in Brandon Township, Shellnut was anticipating a stellar firearm deer season in November. ‘This year the deer rut turned off in early November,? said Shellnut, 37, a Brandon Township resident and area deer hunter. ‘Typically (the rut) goes through the November gun deer season’but […]
It may be time to slow down on area dirt roads once again. Early last month, Senators Nancy Cassis (R-Novi), Majority Leader Mike Bishop, (R-Rochester) and Deb Cherry (D-Burton) recently introduced a bill that would allow speed limits lower than 55 mph to be posted on gravel roads. Many residents along area gravel roads were […]
When Gino Toreli completed his business degree from the University of Michigan-Flint last summer, the lower rungs of a corporate ladder was the last place he wanted to end up. So Toreli, a 2003 Brandon High School graduate pooled some cash and opened Island in the Sun Tanning, 1591 S. Ortonville Road’a tanning business featuring […]
Goodrich- It’s not a great picture. That’s how Superintendent John Fazer described the financial forecast spanning the next three years for the school district, during the Nov. 23 school board meeting. Despite a healthy $3.7 million fund balance concluding the 2008-09 fiscal year which ended in June, Fazer outlined a significant decline in funding through […]
Brandon Twp.-For more than 20 years, Jim Berta had been an area barber’clipping men’s and children’s hair from his Ortonville business known as Jim’s Barber Shop, 125 N. M-15. About a year ago, Berta had to step down from his barber duties due to an illness that required a lung transplant. Following the surgery, he […]
Goodrich-On Wednesday, during a special meeting of the Goodrich Area Schools Board of Education, a Quality Assurance Review (Q.A.R.) was presented following a three-day survey of the district. The Q.A.R. exit report completed by AdvanceEd, accreditation, research, and continuous improvement in a customized way to 27,000 public and private schools and districts across the United […]
Groveland Twp.- Area residents will now have a means to be notified in case of local emergency following a change in procedures from the local cable provider. Township Supervisor Bob DePalma was notified in September by Comcast it will no longer offer the service of ‘cable override? as a venue to disperse local emergency information. […]
Atlas Twp.- The neighbors of Amos Spahnie and Carla Lipari-Spahnie must have eaten well. During the past year the township Spahnies have been perfecting a recipe for banana bread and utilized those nearby to taste the mix’edging ever closer to perfection. ‘We just kept asking folks what tastes right,? said Amos, 52. ‘Some mixtures were […]