Brandon Twp.-Next month, classrooms here might have more students than anticipated. ‘We are projecting enrollment is better than expected,? said new Superintendent Matt Outlaw. ‘We are cautiously optimistic.? In budgeting for the 2014-2015 school year, officials were using estimates that the district would lose approximately 200 students, based on losses the last few years. However, […]
Brandon Fire Chief David Kwapis understands that pipelines are one of the safest ways to transport petroleum and gas products. What he doesn’t understand is the logic used to put a natural gas pipeline next to an oil pipeline. ET Rover has proposed doing just that? placing a natural gas pipeline, measuring about 42 inches […]
Brandon Twp.- Colleen Susan Stringer was remembered this week as a wise, kind, and wonderful woman, devoted to her family and to the township library, its patrons and her fellow employees there. Stringer, adult services librarian in the township for more than 13 years and interim library director since November, died suddenly July 31. She […]
Ortonville- The village council made it official July 28? the Village Skate Park will not open this year. However, while the 2014 season is shut-out, the council is giving a glimmer of hope for the park opening again in 2015. ‘We will try registration again next year,? said Village Manager John Lyons. ‘If they sign […]
Brandon Twp.- The first lesson of the 2014-2015 school year is here and it’s not for those who will be sitting in classrooms come Sept. 2. District teachers Chris Welling and Kim Coffey shared tips this week on how parents can help their students succeed all year long. And while Welling is a third grade […]
Brandon Twp.- The library board and staff are working to move forward two weeks after the death of Interim Director Colleen Stringer. During their Aug. 11 meeting, the library board focused on the search for a person to fill the top position as they unanimously approved an official advertisement for a new library director and […]
Local elected officials are united in their opposition to a proposed natural gas pipeline. In meetings Monday night, both the Brandon Township and Groveland Township boards unanimously passed resolutions opposing the natural gas pipeline that ET Rover wants to put through the townships, as well as numerous other communities along a route that parallels that […]
By Susan Bromley Staff Writer Atlas Twp.- Jim Lusty was taken aback when a representative of ET Rover showed up on his Vantine Road property near Irish Road Saturday afternoon. ‘It actually gave me heartburn,? said Lusty. ‘I like my place the way it is, I don’t want them cutting down trees.? The ET Rover […]
Ortonville- During a joint meeting on Aug. 18 of the Brandon Township Board and Ortonville Village Council, both government entities unanimously accepted recommendations by the Fire Authority for the 2015 fire budget. The recommendations as presented include an increase of .2 mills to be levied for fire, as well as a 3 percent wage increase […]
Brandon Twp.- Township firefighters battled two blazes last weekend, one of which displaced a family, and the other which was deemed arson. Fire Chief David Kwapis said township firefighters were called to an early Sunday morning duplex fire in the 400 block of Cedar Lake Lane in the Village of Ortonville. The first emergency call […]