Brandon Twp.- The economy is down, but the park is getting a lift. The township board voted 4-3 at the Aug. 9 budget workshop meeting to install a sledding hill lift station at the community park, 1414 N. Hadley Road. The project is the last step in completing a grant the township received in 2008 […]
In November, voters in the Brandon School District will choose two board trustees from a field of four candidates and voters within the village of Ortonville will make a choice in the council president race and in seating a trustee for a partial term. But as was revealed when the petition deadline passed at 4 […]
By Susan Bromley Staff Writer Groveland Twp.- Spontaneous combustion is believed to be the cause of the most intense fire Groveland Fire Chief Steve McGee has ever seen in the township. Just after midnight on Aug. 14, several drivers called 9-1-1 to report a fire at I-75 and Grange Hall Road. Township firefighters responded within […]
As a firefighter/medic with the Brandon Fire Department, David Castle routinely protects and cares for township residents. Recently, however, his skills were needed in Marshall, where an oil spill last month has impacted area residents, wildlife, and ecology. A ruptured pipeline owned by Enbridge, Inc. spilled approximately 1 million gallons of crude oil into Talmadge […]
Brandon Twp.- Thieves who broke into a church here recently have robbed local teens of an annual fall trip. Ruth Britting, secretary of Cornerstone Baptist Church, 3060 E. Seymour Lake Road, said on Aug. 9, a churchmember arrived to clean the building and discovered Britting’s office and one other office trashed, with the doors broken […]
There will be a police chase on Aug. 28 in Flint involving three cops from Brandon Township. Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Pete Burkett, Brandon substation commander, as well as Brandon deputies Dave Rheaume and Arnie Terrell will run a 5K that day as part of the 2010 Crim Festival of Races. The main pursuit, […]
Brandon Twp.- A reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest or conviction of the person or persons responsible for setting a fire that destroyed a vehicle and damaged another truck and two homes Aug. 11. Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Fire Investigator Art Schrah said the blaze was definitely […]
Heather Roberts? feet are a mess. She has a blister on her right big toe, and one on her right heel and they are joined, as she says, by ten friends on her left foot. She isn’t complaining though’the blisters are battle scars, a result of walking 60 miles in three days in the fight […]
Brandon Twp.- It’s a conundrum? township residents don’t want higher taxes, but they don’t want their services reduced, either. Police protection in the township is already falling, says Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. and Brandon Substation Commander Pete Burkett, who is urging township officials to levy the full police millage to save two positions they […]
In the southeast part of Tennessee, nestled among the Appalachian Mountains, far from main thoroughfares, is the isolated town of Copperhill, population roughly 500. It was to this area that 43 teens and seven adults from Hillside Bible Church in Ortonville traveled last month to assist poor, elderly residents. ‘The work our teens were doing […]