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March 3, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com The 2021 honorees for the Brighton Area Women’s History Roll of Honor have been announced, with five honorees being recognized during Women’s History Month in March. Kathleen Barden is known for her philanthropic and business acumen, with a commercial lending career that spanned three decades. She has also served as a board member for numerous civic organizations including the Brighton Area Schools Education (...

March 2, 2021 By Jessica Mathews & Jon King / news@whmi.com NOTE: A previous version of this story indicated Blazejewski has run unsuccessfully for a Howell City Council seat. That was incorrect. She had previously applied for an open seat, but later withdrew her name. We apologize for the error. A former county commission candidate says recent actions by the Howell City Council have inspired her to seek an open seat in the November election. In a press release...

March 2, 2021 Two high-speed chases in two days put two suspects behind bars, both facing felony charges. The first incident occurred at about 3:20 Sunday morning when a Livingston County Sheriff’s Deputy attempted to stop a vehicle near the Village of Fowlerville because it did not have a license plate. The vehicle failed to stop and fled onto westbound I-96. The pursuit was terminated at the Livingston/Ingham County line. However, approximately a half-hour later, tha...

March 2, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com A local lawmaker says a separation agreement involving the former head of the state health department is “unacceptable,” while the disclosure of another severance deal for a former top health official is creating further criticism of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. A day after Whitmers administration acknowledged that Robert Gordon, the former director of the Michigan Department of Public Health and Human Services, and ...

March 1, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.comn One of the Howell Nature Center’s most popular "natural" attractions has attracted long-term support from a pair of anonymous donors. The Howell Nature Center, located off of Triangle Lake Road in Marion Township, says the commitment for Alexandrias NatureScape and Treehouse complex will provide a five-year maintenance agreement, while also repairing and renovating the waterfall feature, described as a “summer...

March 1, 2021 By Jon King and Mike Kruzman / news@whmi.com A Pinckney man is heading to trial on charges of stealing $100,000 worth of scrap metal from his workplace. Last July, Pinckney Police began an investigation of suspected thefts from a business on Hamburg Street in the Village. Detective Ryan Hamlin determined that an employee, 38-year-old Ian Lumley, started stealing metal within a week of his employment in November of 2019. Certain machines at the busi...

Skip to main content Currently Reading The same coyote has bitten 5 people since July in the Moraga and Lafayette areas: It came quietly from behind and pounced FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 A sign warns people of the danger in a Moraga neighborhood where a 3-year-old was bit by a coyote while on a walk with her family near her home.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of5 The town council of Moraga discuss the recent coyote bites Wednesday, Feb. 24, at their meeting, with their chief of p...

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• Lack of access to transportation Those factors are grouped into 4 “themes” (socioeconomic status, household composition and disability, minority status and language, housing type and transportation) with separate individual rankings, and from those, one overall ranking is made. The amendment is part of a larger supplemental spending bill related to how federal COVID-19 relief funds awarded to the state should be distributed. Many Republicans have argued that greater considera...