Ortonville- Buyer beware. That is the message Larry Roberts, the public safety aide of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, has for local residents after recently hearing from two citizens who called the Brandon substation and said men had come to their doors offering to lay asphalt at a bargain price. Roberts says the men go […]
Ortonville- It’s back to square one on the village sidewalks. The newly installed village council is scrapping plans to have engineering firm Rowe, Inc. evaluate sidewalks in the village at a cost of about $2,750. Instead, a sidewalk committee headed by Council Trustee Aileen Champion will walk the village and pick which street’s sidewalks should […]
Bow hunting permitted in the village By Susan Bromley Staff Writer Ortonville- Bow hunting will be allowed to continue in the village, both on private property and a 48-acre parcel of land owned by the village where two tree stands were removed last year. At the village council’s Sept. 24 meeting, the council took no […]
Brandon Twp.- When Robert Wilson drives to work at EDS in Detroit, he sometimes takes feathered friends with him, in the trunk. The birds don’t stay with him, though. As he starts his workday, they start theirs. He lets them go from the roof of his work building and they fly about 50 miles back […]
A Brandon Township man has been arraigned on a felonious assault charge after he attacked another man with a baseball bat, and his girlfriend is also wanted in connection with the incident. Brian Michael Koop, 18, was arraigned on Sept. 20 in front of 52-2 District Court Judge Kelley Kostin. Samantha Leighann Layman, 19, is […]
Ortonville- The Downtown Development Authority appears to be developing discontent among its members, with a second resignation letter turned in from a board member in as many weeks. In a letter to the DDA Board of Directors dated Sept. 16, DDA Secretary Sherry Regiani said she would resign effective Oct. 18. Her resignation letter came […]
Bill Sterner has been flying hot air balloons for more than half his life. ‘I’ve always considered it a blessing,? said Sterner, 48. ‘Some people go through their whole life and are lucky to do it once.? His wife, Dawn, has also been around hot air balloons most of her life. Her father was a […]
Brandon Twp.- Two more district principals resigned this week, leaving school officials scrambling to find replacements with the start of the new school year quickly approaching. Superintendent Lorrie McMahon said Belle Ann Elementary Principal Cathy Kochanski and Brandon Fletcher Intermediate School Principal Jeff Beane both turned in letters of resignation within the past week. Kochanski, […]
The public is invited to meet the candidates for the Brandon Township Board during a forum planned for 6 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 2, at the Edna Burton Senior Center, 345 Ball St., Ortonville. The forum takes place just five days before the primary election (Tues., Aug. 7), when the majority of the township seats will […]
Summer break is half over and store shelves have filled with supplies for kids to take back to school. The Ortonville Community Emergency Fund is hoping local residents will help get some of those supplies into the hands of financially disadvantaged students, and perhaps even help to put some new shoes on these students? feet. […]