Natassia Hiner, 18, considers herself lucky. The 2003 Brandon High School graduate will spend the summer working at the Frosty Boy ice cream stand in Brandon Township before attending Grand Valley State University in Allendale MI. this fall. ‘I consider myself fortunate to have this job,? said Hiner, who is beginning her fifth year of […]
At a special Goodrich School Board meeting on June 9, 2003, Vice President Chris Maciag announced his resignation effective July 1. That same day, more than 500 Goodrich voters (about 11 percent) went to the polls and choose Kenneth Rappuhn with 356 votes and Timothy Zirnhelt, 258 votes to serve on the Goodrich School Board. […]
A mix of record low intrest rates and uncertianties in the job market has produced several dramatic fluxuations in the Northern Oakland County real estate market. Local existing home sales have declined during the past 30 months while prices have remained relatively constant according to a report released from the North Oakland County Board of […]
Atlas Twp.- Jim and Lynn Lusty began preparing for their oldest daughters’open house in about February. Angela, 17, the eldest of four girls had graduated from Powers Catholic High School on June 1, and along with her family, were planning for the major post graduation gathering on the spacious grounds at their rural Atlas Township […]
Atlas Twp.’Ruth and Harold Steinhoff figured if they raised 14 children, then downtown Flint was not the place. So, after purchasing the 120 acre Stonehill Farm on Horton Road west of Goodrich in the 1940s, Ruth and Harold moved the troops from the city to the county in 1957. Life changed in a lot of […]
For more than 40 years our family has owned a small log hunting cabin in the hills of Antrim County in northern Lower Michigan. Built about 1900, long before electrical service and indoor plumbing, the small cabin has avoided nearly a century of mankind’s technological marvels that most assuredly bettered our lives. We figured that […]
Earlier this spring a friend of mine was out in the yard when a few young men came by pushing lawn mowers and toting ‘weed-wackers.? The polite kids asked it they could mow her yard during the summer. ‘Sure,? she replied. ‘How much?? ?$20,? he said, after quickly surveying the yard. She agreed since it […]
Hadley’When Detroit Edison cut down a tree at Adelma Sherman’s home near the corner of Mill and Narrin streets in Ortonville she contacted her brother Ralph Hartwig an avid wood carver and longtime Hadley resident. ‘My mom asked uncle Ralph if he could carve something from that old tree,? said Lynda Beach, 60, Ralph’s niece, […]
Record teen unemployment coupled with schools closed for the summer has local authorties concerned. ‘It’s a crime cycle we go through during the summer. Other communities where many people live in close proximity often have problems too,? said Sgt. Tim McIsaac, Oakland County Sheriff Department, Brandon Substation. Such an increase in crimes at the Sashabaw […]
Lawmakers recently OK’d a bill that would allow school districts to spread class time over 1,098 hours and dump the state’s current 180-day school year. Supporters of the measure say school districts would have latitude in how to best ‘divvy-up? the time students spend in the classroom. If desired, schools could change to a four […]