The Downtown Development authority will share a table with the Ortonville Chamber of Commerce at Christmas in the Village to sell cookbooks and calendars. The 2004 calendars, sold by the village, are a year-long glance at Ortonville’s past. Each month has a different picture of days gone by, residents will delight in Ortonville’s pictorial past […]
The Goodrich Board of Education recently approved spending $6,905 for middle school band instruments, including orchestra bells, a tuba, a bass clarinet, and a baritone saxophone. The funds will be drawn from a bond issue to equip the band. ‘We wouldn’t have too many tuba players if they had to buy their own,? said Ken […]
A note on every portrait package sent home with Goodrich students tells parents that some of the money comes back to the schools. ‘We’ve been using it as a fund-raiser for more than a decade,? said superintendent Raymond Green at Monday’s Goodrich Board of Education meeting. The money collected funds items such as student activities, […]
Brandon Fire Chief Bob McArthur won approval from the village council to purchase more than $9,700 in trench rescue equipment. McArthur said that as the township grows, so too does the need for expanded rescue techniques. Because of the increase in construction, basement digging, underground utility work, septic and sewer line trenching, McArthur said the […]
Atlas Township ? Nearly 200 people came out for azlast weekend’s groundbreaking service for the new Atlas Community Baptist Church building. Warm winds whistled around long-time member Stan Reis as he hoisted a shovel full of earth, where the 18,000-square-feet gym and classroom building will be situated. The building will be the first phase of […]
Ortonville – Local quilters are stitching up comfort for traumatized children. In its first year the Town Hall Quilt Guild, an organization of nearly 70 local quilters, hand-stitched 42 quilts to donate to children. Assistant chief Dave Borst of the Brandon Fire Department is currently making room on the rescue trucks for the new quilts. […]
Brandon Twp. – As a fairly new resident of Brandon Township, Bernardine DeJose is happy to live here for the past year. As a mother of three children, she’s happy to celebrate the holidays with her family, but most of all the registered nurse is happy that she and her family are still alive. Thanks […]
Ortonville – Local quilters are stitching up comfort for traumatized children. In its first year the Town Hall Quilt Guild, an organization of nearly 70 local quilters, hand-stitched 42 quilts to donate to children. Assistant chief Dave Borst of the Brandon Fire Department is currently making room on the rescue trucks for the new quilts. […]
The Class of 2003 at both Brandon and Goodrich out paced students statewide in exceeding or meeting standards on the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP). Local students exceeded the state average in nearly every category, according to records released in November by the Michigan Department of Education. The number of students qualifying for the Merit […]
Brandon Twp – Diana Reckwald says she has been the Deputy Treasurer of Brandon Township for almost 13 years and has never had a bad employee review. On Friday, Nov. 21, however, Reckwald was terminated from her position at the township. ‘She wasn’t fired,? said Township Treasurer Linda Owen. ‘I terminated her appointment.? Two days […]