Gaines News

GAINES TWP., Michigan - While Thanksgiving commemorates the autumn 1621 harvest celebration shared by American Indians and pilgrims, in Swartz Creek, one 17-year-old has honored some American Indians with a project he completed two weeks before Thanksgiving.

The Township Board unanimously approved a snowplowing contract with Expo Landscaping and Snowplowing Inc., despite a lawsuit that the business recently settled with Wyoming.

GAINES TWP. Michigan - The history of the Chippewa Indian burial ground will be the topic of the 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov.

Authorities said a mother of two was killed in a single-car crash in Genesee County Saturday.

GAINES TWP., Michigan -- A sun-bleached bone lay on top of the ground at the American Indian cemetery.

GAINES TWP., Michigan -- A sun-bleached bone lay on top of the ground at the American Indian cemetery.

This is a composite sketch of a suspect in a recent Gaines Township break-in. Police believe the suspect is linked to other home invasions.

Firefighters from Fenton Township, Mundy Township and Gaines Township continue to put out a fire at 3255 West Grand Blanc Road in Mundy Township Friday afternoon.

BYRON, Michigan -- Friends of James Dorff of Gaines Township will host an 18-hole golf scramble for his benefit on Aug.

Police are investigating three break-ins of coin boxes at three local car washes.

They spend their days outside, often times in peaceful solitude. The hours are long and paydays depend greatly on Mother Nature, but those that tend to the nearly 130,000 acres of farmland across Genesee County say they do it because they love it.

Ovid, Michigan : It was Ladies Night at the Owosso Speedway on Saturday, June 13th as the ladies of the Big "O" were treated like royalty throughout the evening with assorted giveaways while ladies and gentleman of all ages enjoyed the exciting racing action on the fast 3/8s mile high-banked paved oval.

The youth group of St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church is trying to send Christian Hamby, 11, of Gaines Township to France.

A standing-room-only crowd of more than 100 teachers and parents filled the cafeteria of Gaines Elementary School on Thursday night to let the Swartz Creek Board of Education know in no uncertain terms they oppose split classrooms that would combine two grades in one class.

GAINES TWP., Mich. The Kent County Sheriff's Department is looking for a missing Gaines Township man.

Several fire departments, including Argentine Township, Swartz Creek and Burns Township, responded to the blaze, which was reported at 4:12 a.m. Gaines Township Fire Chief Bill Miller said residents of the house at 126 Clinton St.