On July 19, Michigan State Troopers from Groveland Township responded to a foreclosed home on Jossman Road. The former owner met the troopers at the home and reported that items in the house totalling about $5,000 were stolen from the vacant home. The previous owners said the home was foreclosed on about a year ago […]
Groveland Twp.-On July 26, Michigan State troopers from Groveland Township responded to the Holly Recreation Area and arrested a 46-year-old Burton man on charges of breaking and entering, along with possession of marijuana. The charges come after a park ranger reported a suspicious vehicle parked by the gate house at the McGinnis Road entrance. When […]
Hadley Twp.- It’s been several years since the cry of raccoon dogs on a night hunt has echoed across the fields and hills of the township. On specified nights in the early 1980s, ‘casts? of dogs, hunters and spectators fanned out over the area countryside as part of the Hadley Hills Coon Hunters Association competition. […]
At approximately 2 p.m., March 11 Martina Campbell along with 15 members of Edgren High School track team passed through the Japanese eastern port city of Sendai on the Bullet Train’heading south to Tokyo. At about 3 p.m.’just one hour later’a 124-foot wall of water, following a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, raced over the seawalls six […]
A pair of old black boots, a Union belt buckle and musket balls? a few of the Civil War relics on display at the Old Mill in Ortonville. The historical artifacts belonged to some of the 15 area Brandon Township residents who served in the Civil War. April 12 marked the 150th anniversary of the […]
Groveland Twp.-A medical marijuana dispensary company that is eyeing opening a facility in the township was raided last week at their Walled Lake location. The Caregivers of America dispensary was raided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency on Monday. No details were released by the DEA. In January, Sean Robinson, a spokesperson for Caregivers of […]
It’s April 2003, the first weeks of the war, and U.S. forces reach the outskirts of Baghdad, encountering fierce fighting from Iraqi’s Republican Guard. Information from embedded reporters were calling in news from Iraq and Kuwait to the New York Fox newsroom. Producers from Fox, CNN and MSNBC where cranking out live reports of the […]
The Goodrich School Board is expected to formalize about 20 layoff notices to school employees, including a significant number of teachers, at the school board meeting at 6 p.m., April 25. The cuts are necessary to rectify a $2.2 million budget shortfall. ‘Class sizes will be larger and will vary from 29 to 32 students […]
The Atlas Township board of trustees offered a preliminary bid to share services including sewer fee collection, tax collection, building inspection and code inspection for the Village of Goodrich at the board of trustees meeting on Monday night. The presentation was prompted by Goodrich Village Council President Patricia Wartella who attended the township meeting on […]
In the autumn of 1861, they gathered on the banks of the Flint River near the eastern limits of the city. Camp Thomson was formed, comprised of the 10th Infantry? 997 men from Genesee and Oakland counties who were training for Civil War battles to the south. Among the volunteers were men from Goodrich and […]