Brandon Twp.- Residents along Hadley Road can rest easy. After months of arson fires, detectives found the culprits and have confessions from three local juveniles. A fourth teen that is involved lives in Ohio. ‘Everyone on the street can relax,? said Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Detective and School Liaison Officer Arnie Terrell. ‘Hadley is a […]
Brandon Twp.- Drunk drivers beware? deputies are on the hunt for you in the township. ‘Our guys are out there hitting the streets really hard every night and taking drunks off those streets,? said Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Pete Burkett. ‘We are aggressively pursuing drunk driving in Brandon Township.? From January to September 2007, […]
Local financial institutions reassured customers this week that their money is safe as a crisis caused by foreclosed mortgages and bankrupt businesses rattled the industry. The situation has caused Congress to debate a $700 billion bailout of failing banks and businesses, but area banks and credit unions remain confident. ‘It really hasn’t had an effect […]
Brandon Twp.- The fate of the school liaison officer position remains in question less than two weeks after the school district learned they lost 92 students in this year’s student count, which will equal a loss of $673,072 in revenue. Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Detective Arnie Terrell has been the district’s school liaison officer for […]
Brandon Twp.- A new pavilion at the community park is a direct result of the efforts of 15-year-old Zack Zernec. Zernec, a sophomore at Brandon High School, raised funds for the structure, requested donations, recruited people to build it and helped in the construction itself, all as part of his Eagle Scout project. A ribbon-cutting […]
Brandon Twp.- An ecstatic 73-year-old man, an appreciative 80-year-old woman, excited children, grateful nursing home patients and mothers in prison were among the people a local church youth group helped on a recent mission trip to West Virginia. The experience was not what some of the 21 youths and eight adults from Seymour Lake United […]
Groveland Twp.- It’s a warm Sunday in early August, but Truly Ample, a.k.a. Debra Jackson-Dechert, isn’t hot, although she is dressed in attire to mimic the 16th century. Dechert sits on a bench underneath a tent wearing a long green dress embroidered with thistles, a white peasant blouse, green and white striped knee-high socks and […]
Brandon Twp.-Catherine Morrison remembers vividly the night her home in Glasgow, Scotland was bombed by the Nazis during World War II. Catherine’s father was out of town working, her five younger siblings were in bed, and she and her mother sat together by the fireplace as the bombs fell around them. Suddenly, it was silent. […]
Since the August primary, 369 Brandon Township residents have become new registered voters. Township Clerk Jeannie McCreery expects to process another 100 applications that arrived prior to the Oct. 6 deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 4 election. ‘I have never officially compared in the past, but I can tell (new registrations are) […]
Brandon Twp.- Skulls, blood splatter, fingerprints and corpses. These were some of the slide show images viewed by students Monday in the forensic science class at Brandon High School as Barb Martin Bailey, a forensic artist from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, explained what kind of work is done by crime scene investigators. ‘Crime scene […]