Brandon Twp.- Are you in a healthy or unhealthy relationship? Learn the signs of each as well as how to improve your relationship and break out of a bad one during ‘Healthy Relationships,? set for 7 p.m., Feb. 9, at the library, 304 South St. The program, offered by the Oakland County Health Division, is […]
BREAKING NEWS ET Rover goes home; dumps pipeline plans Atlas Twp.- ET Rover has cancelled a plan to put a natural gas pipeline through the township. Less than a week after spokeswoman Vicki Granado said Rover planned to file a formal application for their pipeline route that would take it through both Atlas and Groveland […]
Brandon Twp.-Lianna Riley and Courtney Rose are just two of the many Brandon High School students who will support making dreams a reality for Michigan children this month. They hope you will join them in their efforts. BHS Charity Week is Feb. 9-13, hosted by the Brandon Student Council, and this year’s chosen beneficiary is […]
Brandon Twp.- As township and Village of Ortonville officials prepare to approve a joint recreation master plan, they are seeking the input of the community. A simple, 7-question recreation survey can be completed by residents by going online to brandontownship.us. ‘We’ve had 84 responses to the survey and would like to see a few more,? […]
Brandon Twp.- In the last two weeks, the president gave the ‘State of the Union? address, the governor gave the ‘State of the State? address, and here in the township, Superintendent Matt Outlaw gave his first ‘State of the District? address. Outlaw has been at the helm only six months, but a requirement of his […]
Ortonville- Police and medics were called to the Citgo gas station, 495 S. Ortonville Road, last week after a 24-year-old man overdosed on heroin in the parking lot. ‘Heroin is becoming more and more prevalent throughout the county and we are seeing more and more of it up here in Brandon,? said Oakland County Sheriff’s […]
Jacob Young, the Brandon High School senior who posted online threats to kill everyone in a shooting rampage at school, will face trial in the Sixth Circuit Court. Judge Kelley Kostin of the 52-2 District Court ordered the case bound over to the higher court with Young facing the same charges on which she arraigned […]
Brandon Twp.- The actions that led to the arrest of a 42-year-old Alger man on Jan. 15 began with him knocking on the door of a township resident. Christopher Michael Montney was arraigned Jan. 16 on one charge of fleeing a police officer, third degree, a 5-year felony, as well as a charge of driving […]
Brandon Twp.- Two parcels of school district-owned property are back on the market. The school board approved at their Jan. 19 meeting placing the property they own at 330 Sherman Court in the village of Ortonville up for sale, as well as a parcel located off Oakwood Road near Leece Road. The Sherman Court parcel […]
I stepped into a mosque and out of my comfort zone last week. Coincidentally, my visit to the Muslim Unity Center in Bloomfield Hills was Jan. 7, at the same time that news was breaking about the terrorist attacks at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper in Paris. The attacks, which left 12 […]