Brandon Twp.- In the first of what will be several strategic planning workshops, township boardmembers met on March 8 and were joined by Sheila Ronis, an associate professor of management at Walsh College. Ronis is facilitating the workshops free of charge to the township. ‘Dr. Ronis is guiding us through this,? said Supervisor Kathy Thurman. […]
By Susan Bromley Staff Writer Brandon Twp.- The school board unanimously approved a motion to discontinue the busing of in-district transfers during their March 8 meeting, but blunted uproar over the controversial decision by offering a solution to appease parents and daycare providers. District officials have received protests over the decision to bus to home […]
Brandon Twp.- School district officials are pursuing advertising revenue as a partial solution to the budget crisis they are facing. School boardmembers approved at their March 8 board meeting a memorandum of understanding with Alternative Revenue Development, a Bloomfield Hills-based company that aims to bring new and innovative revenue streams to school districts around the […]
Brandon Twp.-Books and quiet are expected to be found at a library. Damaged furniture and phones, vandalized restrooms and rowdy kids are not. The Brandon Township Library has been facing the latter scenario for the last two years, says library director JoAnn Gavey. The problem stems from huge numbers of kids from the adjacent Brandon […]
When Russ McMartin came to Brandon High School to be the band director in the fall of 1998, the band had 55 members. Now, six years later, the number of students enrolled in band has more than doubled to 130 and is expected to rise to about 150 band students for next fall. More than […]
Alicia Kottman will be spending her spring break in a tropical location like thousands of high school students do every year. She’ll snorkel, ride horseback, and go to a luau while in Hawaii. But the Brandon High School freshman will also do something that no other Brandon High School student is doing and few other […]
Brandon Twp.-Jessica Laviolette is on the go. She’s going to the International Science and Engineering Fair in Arizona in May. She’s going to Harvard University this summer. She’s going to get a patent. The Brandon High School junior is fueled in part by ambition, intelligence and… ethanol. Laviolette came to Brandon from Delaware, where she […]
Brandon Twp.-Jessica Laviolette is on the go. She’s going to the International Science and Engineering Fair in Arizona in May. She’s going to Harvard University this summer. She’s going to get a patent. The Brandon High School junior is fueled in part by ambition, intelligence and… ethanol. Laviolette came to Brandon from Delaware, where she […]
Brandon Twp.-Jessica Laviolette is on the go. She’s going to the International Science and Engineering Fair in Arizona in May. She’s going to Harvard University this summer. She’s going to get a patent. The Brandon High School junior is fueled in part by ambition, intelligence and… ethanol. Laviolette came to Brandon from Delaware, where she […]
Brandon Twp.- Community support is needed to provide the annual spring yard cleanup known as ‘Teens and Seniors, Rocking and Raking.? Senior citizens and disabled adults are the beneficiaries of the project, as volunteers clean yards, wash windows, trim trees with hand tools, bring out lawn furniture from storage and wash items, clean gutters, do […]