Ortonville may be the smallest Main Street community in Oakland County, but the village won big Nov. 14 at the MSOC Main Event. The annual appreciation party honors 12 communities in the county that are in Main Street, an economic development program. The Ortonville Downtown Development Authority received two awards during the party? one for […]
Brandon Twp.- Site plans for an apartment complex off M-15 have expired, another possible fatality of a tanking economy. Township Building Director Tim Palulian said a site plan for the multiple-unit complex to be located north of Solley’s Appliance expired at the beginning of the month. Another site plan, approval for Silverman Development to extract […]
Randy Davisson can cross another goal off his bucket list. The former Ortonville resident, 71, set a record when he and West Branch resident Bill Zettel drove three horses abreast, pulling an Amish wagon with them on it, in the Michigan Double-Cross. The ride took place for 21 consecutive days, from Sept. 6-26, and covered […]
Brandon Twp.- Terry Beltramo had less than a smooth start as the new township treasurer? he arrived for his first day on the job on Nov. 20, only to discover all the files in his new office had been mysteriously deleted. ‘The Excel worksheets that we needed, all the balances for the township and county, […]
Brandon Twp.- The real estate market may not be booming right now, but at least one business is still looking to buy property. Genisys Credit Union, formerly T & C Federal Credit Union is considering the purchase of a vacant piece of property on M-15, south of Brandon High School. Also being considered are at […]
Groveland Twp.- Unique gifts from around the world will be for sale from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Dec. 6 at Bueche’s Food World, 400 Ortonville Road. Faith White, a Goodrich resident and assistant pastor at Goodrich Assembly of God, worked as a missionary with Work and Witness from 1997-2004, traveling to Peru, Argentina, Kiev in the […]
A man who was found driving nude at Brandon High School in June was not entrapped by police officers, a judge has ruled. During a hearing on Nov. 13, 52-2 District Court Judge Kelley Kostin denied a motion that Brandon Township resident John Hilton Carr, 66, was entrapped by officers when he was found nude […]
Jon Rascher had much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving’a new, healthy son and homecooking among them. His family is thankful, too’that he is safe and at home, for the first time in nine months. Rascher, a 2002 Brandon High School graduate, was greeted at Flint-Bishop Airport last Sunday by friends and family waving flags […]
Nuns have been around for hundreds of years. But changes in society have changed the sisterhood, say two local nuns. Sister Mary Martin of the Dominican Nuns of Mt. Thabor Monastery in Groveland Township and Sister Joan May, administrator for St. Mark Catholic Church in Goodrich live very different lives. Martin is a cloistered nun, […]
Brandon Twp.- An 18-year-old Brandon Township woman was in critical condition at Royal Oak Beaumont Hospital following an accident in which the car she was driving was hit by a tow truck. The woman was driving a red Neon when she turned left onto M-15 from the Sunoco/Taco Bell, 1152 Ortonville Road, around 12:53 p.m., […]