Brandon Twp.-A Saturday evening snow storm just before Sunday’s Super Bowl has at least one business owner still seeing red. The early February storm that caused power outages to several thousand DTE customers in Oakland County the day of the big game cost Bullfrogs Restaurant and Bar, 2225 Ortonville Road, thousands of dollars in business […]
Atlas Twp.- The Genesee County Road Commission and the township agreed on March 30 to move forward with a contract to replace the Green Road Bridge. Fred Peivandi, director of engineering at the GCRC said the project will cost $425,000, of which the county will fund $85,000 for engineering fees and the township will cover […]
Goodrich – An ongoing dispute over repairs and maintenance for an area landmark has village officials seeking some help. A tiff between Atlas Township and the village has been ongoing regarding maintenance obligations to the century-old Lyceum building, home to the Goodrich Library 10237 Hegel Road. ‘It’s an old building, something is always going wrong,? […]
Brandon Twp.- Start and end times at Brandon Fletcher Intermediate School will stay roughly the same as they are now at least through the end of the 2009-2010 school year. Superintendent Lorrie McMahon said Tuesday officials have decided to delay a decision on changing the start and end times for BFIS. ‘We believe this is […]
Soldiers and children entangled in countries at war are a little happier this year thanks to the efforts of local scouts. Ortonville Scout Troop 139 and Cub Scout Pack 531 received an Army certificate of appreciation recently after packing soldiers boxes for shipment to troops stationed in Iraq. Iraq-based ‘Task Force Diamond? recognized the local […]
Goodrich- The village council voted 5-0 Monday night for WadeTrim engineers to inspect the Dutch Road Bridge over the Kearsley Creek. The $1,850 inspection is required by the federal government every two years. Included in the inspection is a scour analysis’which examines the hole left behind when sediment (sand and rocks) is washed away from […]
Area residents are encouraged to participate in a study regarding the development of a system to handle solid waste for Brandon and Groveland townships. The study is paid for by a Capital and Cooperative Initiative Revolving Fund grant (CCIRF). Resource Recycling Systems of Ann Arbor was awarded the contract to research the project in January. […]
By David Fleet Editor Rising about 50 feet from the surface of Lake Huron, Martin Reef Lighthouse marks a dangerous shoal east of the Straits of Mackinac. For young Cheboygan native Bill Duman, the solitary Great Lake lighthouse about 4 miles from the Upper Peninsula shore holds rather unique memories from the summer of 1936. […]
Atlas Twp.-The township trustees gave a local soccer organization a kick in a new direction. The board OK’d a plan Monday night for a soccer field, utilizing about an acre- and-a-half of approximately 11 acres of township land east of the hall with frontage on Gale Road. The decision marks the first township use of […]
On Monday Brandon Senior Guard Danielle Kwasiborski traded her Blackhawk jersey for Oakland Community College Raiders attire. Kwasiborski, 17, received a full athletic scholarship to play basketball for the Lady Raiders this fall’a culmination of plenty of hard work, great coaching and help from her dad, she said. Kwasiborski, a BHS standout guard who played […]