Since the Goodrich Soccer Club first started nine years ago, Jan Martin has had an impact on how the club has been run. Pretty soon, though, she will step aside from her many duties with the club and make way for others to take on those responsibilities. Martin, a Goodrich resident, said she plans on […]
Amy Aylmer’s first foray in the Crim Festival of Races came six years ago after the birth of her third child. This year, Aylmer, a Goodrich resident, will bring that child along to the Crim, scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 26 in downtown Flint. She will be joined in the 10-mile race by husband Jim, who […]
Like other high school football teams throughout Michigan, the Brandon Blackhawks are preparing to take the field for the first day of practice Monday, Aug. 7. However, the Blackhawks also have a couple other activities in the next two weeks to give local fans a closer look at the 2006 team. The first of these […]
Having gained professional dancing experience with one Detroit pro basketball team, Chelsey Buhler is ready to take that experience to the next level. Buhler, 18, an Ortonville resident and recent Brandon High School graduate, made the final cut for the Detroit Pistons? Automotion dance team during tryouts July 20-21. She said she is the youngest […]
All Tony Dettore needed was for actor James Earl Jones to say the famous movie line, ‘If you build it, they will come.? While Dettore may not have played baseball with Hall of Fame players like Kevin Costner’s character, Ray Kinsella, did in the movie ‘Field of Dreams,? he did have a chance to meet […]
Despite ‘uncomfortably hot? conditions, Groveland Township resident Keith Blakely and his team stayed in the running to the end at the Buick Open Pro-Am. Blakely, vice president of Country Folk Art Shows, Inc. in Holly, took part in the tournament, which took place Wednesday, Aug. 2 at Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club, G-9057 S. […]
Despite the hot weather Sunday, July 30, there were plenty of fish for the taking on Lake St. Clair. On that day, Jan’s Sport Shop, 2285 State Road (M-15), Goodrich, sponsored their eighth annual Customer Appreciation Team Bass Tournament. Stephanie Hempton, finance manager at Jan’s, helped organize the tournament along with tournament manager, Jerry Doucette. […]
Local volleyball players still interested in playing in Brandon’s first annual four-on-four volleyball tournament have the opportunity to participate. Brandon volleyball coach Brian Williams said the deadline to register for the tournament, which originally was set at Monday, July 24, has been extended for a week through Monday, July 31. The ‘Passin? on the Grass? […]
Next week, Michigan high school football players, including those in Brandon and Goodrich, will be doing what Ryan Owens was doing the morning of Wednesday, July 19. However, Michigan’s high school football coaches will no doubt be doing everything they can to avoid what happened to Owens after he practiced for Henderson County (Ky.) High […]
Brandon alumnus Joel Pappas will be heading down south to continue his college baseball career. Pappas, 20, who played the past two seasons at Mott Community College in Flint, has signed with the University of the Cumberlands (formerly Cumberland College) in Williamsburg, Ky. to play baseball with that program for the 2006-07 school year. Pappas, […]