Brandon Twp.- Hannah Schroll was admitted to the hospital 13 times when she was in first grade in the Holly Schools. She had to be intubated three times to enable her to breathe. Still, her life-threatening peanut allergy is difficult for some to understand. Her mother, Wendy Schroll recalls the time a child touched Hannah […]
Brandon Twp.- Robin Lemkie hunts ghosts. She has looked for, listened for, and tried to sense spirits in homes, businesses, and cemeteries as founder of Ghost Hunters of Southern Michigan. She says that 90-95 percent of the time, she is successful in finding ghosts at places where she has been called to investigate the supernatural? […]
Brandon Twp.- Kris Mathews was surprised and in tears when several friends showed up on her doorstep last Wednesday, but the real surprise was behind them, in the driveway? an orange Dodge Charger limousine. For the past several months, Mathews? friends and family have been there for her as she has battled breast cancer. Now, […]
Brandon Twp.- Teresa DeGrazia can’t stand the Rugrats. The cable television cartoon teaches children bad behavior, exemplified by main character Angelica, says DeGrazia, who also doesn’t like Scooby-Doo or Tom and Jerry, cartoons she calls scary and violent, respectively. A parent educator with Great Parents, Great Start, DeGrazia will be the speaker at a free […]
Brandon Twp.- When Kay Hunt arrived in the United States 20 years ago, she remembers saying, ‘This is America?? in disbelief. Hunt and her cousin had just taken a 20-hour flight from Bangkok, in their native Thailand to Chicago, and then traveled to Kalamazoo, where they would both attend Western Michigan University. ‘We came in […]
In 1906, the Wright Brothers patented the airplane, the average U.S. wage was 22 cents per hour, there were 45 stars on the American flag, and 8,000 cars in the entire United States with only 144 miles of paved roads. The average U.S. life expectancy at that time was 47-years-old. On Wednesday, Nora Larsen will […]
Brandon Twp.- Ed and Mary Dolzynski are as busy as the bees they keep with their five-year-old business, Twins Honeybee Farm. Ed Dolzynski, a city boy who had a dream of being a farmer, bought 10 acres of land in Brandon eight years ago with wife Mary. Just three years later, the full-time UPS driver […]
Pontiac- The drive to recall Ortonville Village Council President Sue Bess has stalled. On Sept. 14, a three-member Oakland County Election Commission unanimously denied recall petition language submitted last month by village resident Jane Derry. Oakland County Probate Court Judge Barry Grant read the language aloud in his courtroom to observers and fellow commission members […]
Brandon Twp.- Students at Brandon Fletcher Intermediate School were dismissed at 3:40 p.m. on the first day of school. But it wasn’t until 5:15 p.m. that Charity Bukoski’s sixth grade son made it home. ‘The first day, my husband came home before our son and we were like, ‘Where’s our kid?? says Bukoski. Her son […]
When Bernard Randall was a child growing up in England, he traveled once a year, never venturing more than 15-20 miles from his hometown of Flitwick. ‘I never believed I’d ever leave England,? he says. But in 1967, Randall won a two-year scholarship to train as an engineer at the General Motors Institute in Flint. […]