Groveland Twp.- In an effort to cut $349 million from the current state budget, the Michigan State Police will chop $1.7 million from their budget by laying-off 100 troopers statewide. Those cuts will include three troopers from the township post who were assigned last December. The layoffs will reduce the number of troopers to nine […]
Goodrich-The school board voted 7-0 on Monday night to hire John Fazer, the current superintendent at Holton Public Schools. The board and Fazer reached an agreement on his contract last week. Frazer was selected over Mark Kleinhans, the current superintendent at the Montrose School District, to replace current Goodrich Superintendent Larry Allen, who was formally […]
At 7 p.m., May 11, the Goodrich Village Council will host a public hearing to review a proposal from Republic Waste Services to extend the current contract for the next four years. The same service including a 96 gallon rolling trash container for about 600 village residents will cost $10.15 per month’a drop in price […]
Sixty-five smolt salmon are going to have a new home this spring. After a $1,000 grant from Clinton Valley Trout Unlimited last fall, Brandon Middle School science teacher Dave Green, with the help of students, received salmon eggs on Nov.13 from Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery in Mattawan, Van Buren County. The project is part […]
Goodrich-The school board voted 7-0 at a special meeting on Monday night to eliminate the Valedictorian/ Salutatorian distinction, along with the academic ‘Top 10? at the high school beginning with the graduating Class of 2011. Mike Ellis, acting high school principal, reported to the board that nationally other school districts are already making the shift. […]
Brandon Twp.-Dr. Brent Musolf has teamed up with Dr. Jay Stark at the Brandon Chiropractic Center, 70 S. Ortonville Road, Ortonville. Musolf, a native of Southgate and a Port Austin resident, will see patients specifically for spinal decompression therapy on Monday, Wednesday or Friday. Musolf attended the University of Michigan’Dearborn and completed studies at Texas […]
At 7 p.m., May 20 the Atlas Township Planning Commission will host a public hearing at the Goodrich Middle School Cafetorium, 7480 Gale Road, Goodrich to review the township master plan. The master plan, which is reviewed every five years, is a guide for land use in the community it serves. Rick Misek, Atlas Township […]
Brandon Twp.-It has been a tradition of winter since buses first rambled the wintery roads of rural communities. In the early morning hours students and parents gather by televisions, radios and computers screens waiting for the magic words that sends kids back to bed, parents scrambling for babysitters and bus drivers a day off. Snow […]
Ortonville- The true extent of Robert Davis? heroic efforts in the Vietnam War will remain unknown. He has now gained a place of honor at the Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly following his death on Dec. 10. He was 63. Born in 1942, Davis a native of Nitro W.V. graduated from Nitro High School […]
By David Fleet Editor Brandon Twp.-At a cost of $135,000 the Brandon School Board Ok’d Sunshine Water Systems of Linden to provide and install a filtration systems on school drinking water supplies. The system filters out arsenic at the point of entry’with large tanks filtering water near the point at which pipes enter a structure’s […]