Two Brandon Township women pleaded guilty and a third woman pleaded no contest to charges of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder for their roles in a March 24 attack on a 21-year-old woman in the Clarkston Lakes Mobile Home Park. Jennifer White, 23, pleaded no contest and Kristen Gallus, […]
Brandon Twp.- What kind of show will light up the sky on July 3 depends entirely upon the donations of area residents and businesses. The Ortonville Area Chamber of Commerce has been seeking donations from the community to pay for the July 3 show since township officials cut the $5,000 usually given for fireworks from […]
Ortonville- Mary Beth Skylis has been acting in theater since she was 9-years-old. ‘Theater is like being able to goof off and no one really cares, because it isn’t you that you are playing,? she says. Skylis, 15, will be able to ‘goof off? May 11-13 when she plays the part of Cecily Cardew in […]
The letters from the soldiers are appreciative. ‘Hello. My name is Ivan Virruet and I just received your box of goodies,? says one. ‘I just wanted to write to you all to tell you thank you for sending that stuff. I don’t know of a soldier in my unit who doesn’t like Girl Scout cookies […]
Brandon Twp.- The babies don’t wake up and cry at 3 a.m., but students in Jennifer Williams? Intro to Parenting and Child Development class are still learning to some degree what it means to have an infant when they take a doll for 48 hours. Each of Williams? 33 Brandon High School students must carry […]
The 4-passenger Cessna plane Elizabeth McGhee flew in Kenya in February was the same model as the plane she owns and has flown in Michigan. However, the difference between the two planes is that she successfully landed the one in Kenya? even after power had been cut to the engine? while the other ended up […]
Three suspects will soon be facing charges in several area home invasions. Alan Jay Pratt, Jr. 22, of Oxford, was arraigned March 16 in 52-3 District Court on one count of receiving and concealing stolen property, a 5-year felony. The charge stemmed from a home invasion that occurred in January in Brandon Township. According to […]
Brandon Twp.- Michelle and Kenny Zanoni left their home around 1:30 p.m. on Monday to pick up their teenage daughters, Angela and Brianna, from school. Only a few minutes after they arrived at the school to pick up the girls, a neighbor called Michelle to tell her that their home was on fire. ‘I didn’t […]
Walking up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on March 15 was a huge reality check for Katy O’Neill. ‘It all hit me then,? she said. ‘I was like, ‘This is real, this is happening.?? What was happening for her and 37 other Brandon Middle School eighth grade students, was a hands-on […]
Consumers Energy will extend gas mains in Brandon Township again this year, as well as Atlas Township, but not as far as they originally planned. With the passage of two deadlines, the public utility did not meet the 50 percent overall participation goals for either project, meaning the extensions will encompass only areas that did […]