Groveland Twp.- During the evening hours, or on weekends when most doctors? offices are closed, it can be inconvenient to have to drive to a hospital emergency room several miles away and wait hours to be seen. Now there is another option. Area residents will have access to emergency medical care close to home with […]
The Ortonville Community Emergency Fund has had ever increasing numbers of people for several years requesting their assistance to put food on their tables and pay the bills. Changes to welfare approved by state legislators last month and signed into law by Gov. Rick Snyder will take effect Oct. 1 and the local food pantry […]
Nearly 20 nominations and a plethora of volunteer activities in the community made Heidi Fluck the clear choice for the 2011 Citizen of the Year. Heidi, a Brandon High School senior, is the youngest ever Citizen of the Year, but at just 17-years-old, she has dedicated more hours to volunteer work than many people do […]
The birth of Samuel Joseph Quisenberry at 2:40 a.m., Sept. 4 wasn’t anything like his parents, Colleen and Joey Quisenberry, imagined it would be. It wasn’t induced like the births of their daughters, Lilly and Emma. There was no epidural or any painkillers whatsoever. And, most surprising of all, their son was born not in […]
Three area teens will attain the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest honor a Boy Scout can achieve, after completing community service projects. Christian Stevenson, 15, a Goodrich High School sophomore, put in more than 100 hours on his project, a 10-foot-high by 12-foot-wide covered wood sign placed at the Goodrich Lions Club, located on […]
A 25-year-old man who had been living with a Brandon Township family for about a year stole a gun from their home and used it to kill an Independence Township woman and wound her husband before turning the gun on himself, ending his own life. Oakland County Sheriff’s Office detectives say Matthew Stephen Adair stole […]
A 56-year-old Brandon Township man has been charged with sexually assaulting a township girl. The abuse allegedly began when the girl was 9-years-old. She is now 14. John Edward Woolley was arraigned Aug. 29 on three counts of criminal sexual conduct, first degree, a life felony, by 52-2 District Court Magistrate Thomas Raguso. According to […]
The view from Beth Owen Canavan’s 14th floor Manhattan co-op, great to begin with, is even better after Hurricane Irene came through a week ago. ‘All of the buildings and all the windows have been powerwashed, so the view out has never been so good,? she laughed Monday. Canavan was feeling fortunate to have escaped […]
Brandon Twp.- The school district appears to be in better financial condition than expected. Steve Lenar, executive director of fiscal affairs, announced at the Aug. 30 finance committee meeting that revenues have exceeded expenditures for the 2010-2011 school year by about $243,000. He stressed that this is strictly a preliminary estimate as the district prepares […]
Brandon Twp.- For years, debate has raged? is it better to buy or lease a car? At the school district’s finance committee meeting Tuesday night, the question had a new variation? is it better to buy or lease a fleet of buses? District officials appear ready to answer ‘lease.? With half the buses in the […]