Brandon Twp.- A committee of Brandon and Groveland residents will be formed to examine recreation issues including travel teams and recently increased non-resident recreation fees. Shawn Lovelace, a Brandon Hawks soccer coach, addressed concerns he and other parents have during a presentation at the beginning of Monday’s township board meeting. Lovelace noted that travel team […]
Kammron Myles looks and acts like a normal baby. On a recent Tuesday morning, the curly-haired, sturdy 10-month-old with the big brown eyes smiles and reaches for a toy truck on the floor in his aunt’s home in Groveland Township as sunshine streams in through a window. There are no signs that anything is wrong. […]
The birth of Samuel Joseph Quisenberry at 2:40 a.m., Sept. 4 wasn’t anything like his parents, Colleen and Joey Quisenberry, imagined it would be. It wasn’t induced like the births of their daughters, Lilly and Emma. There was no epidural or any painkillers whatsoever. And, most surprising of all, their son was born not in […]
Three area teens will attain the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest honor a Boy Scout can achieve, after completing community service projects. Christian Stevenson, 15, a Goodrich High School sophomore, put in more than 100 hours on his project, a 10-foot-high by 12-foot-wide covered wood sign placed at the Goodrich Lions Club, located on […]
A 25-year-old man who had been living with a Brandon Township family for about a year stole a gun from their home and used it to kill an Independence Township woman and wound her husband before turning the gun on himself, ending his own life. Oakland County Sheriff’s Office detectives say Matthew Stephen Adair stole […]
A 56-year-old Brandon Township man has been charged with sexually assaulting a township girl. The abuse allegedly began when the girl was 9-years-old. She is now 14. John Edward Woolley was arraigned Aug. 29 on three counts of criminal sexual conduct, first degree, a life felony, by 52-2 District Court Magistrate Thomas Raguso. According to […]
An attorney for the husband of Denise Amber Lee, a 21-year-old mother of two slain by a former Brandon Township resident, has announced plans to file a lawsuit against the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. Thomas Maryott said during a press conference last week that he is suing the sheriff’s office on behalf of […]
Brandon Twp.- The new community park unofficially opened this week after years of anticipation, with soccer players taking to the fields at Oakwood and Hadley roads. But some soccer players are facing frustation, disappointment and anger as they are shut out. ‘Brandon Recreation has told all travel programs that as of June, they will have […]
Hadley Twp.- Parents give children life everyday. It isn’t often a child gets to return the favor. Brigitte Wiese gave birth to her daughter, Renee, 46 years ago. Less than two months ago, Renee Tucker saved her mother’s life by giving her a kidney. ‘I told her, ‘I carried you for nine months and now […]
A 19-year-old Groveland Township man has been arraigned on charges relating to a breaking and entering and assault on a former accomplice in Brandon Township. Christopher Fredrick Sache was arraigned by 52-2 District Court Judge Dana Fortinberry on April 10 on charges of breaking and entering a building with intent, assault or assault and battery, […]