Brandon Twp.- Jacob Bombardo, 7, won a brand-new bike last week. Minutes later, he announced to a gym full of cheering Belle Ann Elementary students his plans to give it away. Bombardo, a second-grader at the school, was rewarded with the lime green Magna Rip Claw bike for raising $700 for the school in their […]
Ortonville- Food offerings at Brandon Fletcher Intermediate School on Nov. 21, were, well, not the average fare. Instead of pizza or chicken nuggets, students dined on such entrees as squirrel stew, turtle soup, wild boar sausage, and venison chili as part of the annual Wild Game Feast. ‘I tried everything but venison,? said Jake Selak, […]
Brandon Twp.- The phrase ‘There’s no place like home for the holidays? has never had more meaning for Dylan Dean and Billy Westfall than it does this holiday season. The pair recently finished a year they’d just as soon forget. Dean and Westfall spent Thanksgiving 2005 in Iraq after being deployed last fall with the […]
Ortonville- For the third time, the Oakland County Election Commission will meet to hear recall petition language against Village Council President Sue Bess. The hearing on the clarity of the language is set for 11 a.m., Nov. 30, in the courtroom of Chief Probate Court Judge Barry Grant, 1200 N. Telegraph Road, Pontiac. Grant will […]
Ortonville- Michelle, a part-time working mother, knows the meaning of tough times. The village resident fought a battle with cancer six years ago, lost a job two years later, and is now separated and raising her two middle-school-aged sons on an income of $1,000 per month. She pays $600 a month in rent and worries […]
By Susan Bromley Staff Writer Brandon Twp.- It’s a tough time to be in the real estate market in Michigan. Nonetheless, real estate brokers Rick and Terri Robinson have opened Michigan Real Estate Associates, offering new options for buyers and sellers. ‘We decided if we were going to do the real estate business, we needed […]
Ortonville – In Michigan, 70 percent of parents improperly restrain booster seats. So says Bridget Hanigan, a community liason for Success by Six, which sponsored a free booster seat check at the Brandon Fire Station #1 on Nov. 10. Children over age four in Michigan are not required to use a booster seat at all, […]
Brandon Twp.- It’s a done deal. By a 3-2 vote, the township board has agreed to the purchase of 66.1 acres of land adjacent to Brandon High School at a price of $1,955,000. Supervisor Ron Lapp, Clerk Jeannie McCreery and Trustee Sandy Willett voted yes to the land purchase agreement during the Nov. 6 board […]
A mountain snowstorm, a stranger’s marriage proposal, a spooked horse on a battlefield, and a profound spiritual experience were all a part of Randy Davisson’s world-record breaking adventure. Davisson and his Appaloosa horse, Eli Whitney, are the latest addition under Impossible Feats in Ripley’s ‘Believe It or Not!? Book 3 (page 183). Davisson, a former […]
Brandon Twp.- The check’s in the mail. What is uncertain is which box it will end up in. Up until a few months ago, the township had one post office box for all township mail. But then Treasurer Linda Owen informed the board she had purchased a second post office box with her own funds […]