Lakeland News

OK. So I lied to you last week. Well, not exactly an outright lie. I simply passed along an untruth handed down from on high about closures and detours on M-36 between Hamburg and Pinckney during this month of July.

Lakeland and Milford high schools were among the 24 high schools making up the new Kensington Lakes Activities Association that far exceeded its inaugural goal of raising $100,000 for a myriad of world charities this school year.

Age 69, died Saturday, June 6, 2009 at his home near Brighton, MI. Dennis played in bands 40 years as singer, guitarist and joke teller in/around the Ann Arbor, Brighton and lakes area.

Golf and a Wild, Wild West them will collide on June 8 for the Greater Brighton Area Chamber of Commerce Annual Golf Classic, which still has openings.

Putnam Township Square is expected to be brimming with artists and visitors during this weekend's 19th annual Art in the Park, event organizers said.

New vendors, an international food court and an expanded children's area await visitors to this year's Art in the Park.

Of the $3.8 billion Michigan has received in stimulus money so far, Livingston County is seeing $31.5 million.

Katelyn Marie Stroshein and James Anthony Wysocki were united in marriage May 9 at St.

Hamburg Township's Suzanne Hines is perfectly happy living in the 21st century, but mention history and stories excitedly pour out of her.

Carpet Depot owner Derryl Hill called the possible reduced closure of M-36 this summer from some 49 days to 15 days a small victory, but one that needs "assurance" to his and dozens of other Hamburg Township businesses.

Sometimes, a person needs to laugh. What else can someone do when the economy stinks, small businesses are hurting and downsizing, and local governments are facing declining revenues for services? Despite those gloomy conditions, entrepreneurs and government leaders along the M-36 corridor in Livingston County found time to joke, laugh and even ...

Thursday's M-36 corridor growth forum will be more of a morale booster for the local business community than a litany of good economic news for the area, event organizers said.

At the start of the school year, Pinckney Elementary School Principal Yvonne Taylor realized she had a "mini Costco" in her basement one day while grocery shopping, and began a crusade to feed local families in ...

The Pinckney Lakeland Hamburg Hell Chamber of Commerce will hold a networking breakfast at Zukey Lake Tavern on Tuesday.

Residents who want a pothole-ridden county road fixed this year won't get a share of the $853 million in federal road dollars being pumped into state coffers to stimulate the economy and create jobs.

She primarily teaches them Spanish, but this week Vida Ruggero reached out to her young Pinckney students with live science lessons from a coral reef in the Bahamas.

Zukey Lake Tavern owner Rick Glazer said it's likely 80 percent of businesses in and around the road reconstruction project area on M-36 will fold this summer due to the 41-plus-day closure of the state ...

Two Hamburg Township mainstay businesses have fallen victim to Michigan's struggling economy, and perhaps a lack of traffic due to the community's somewhat remote location.

An outbreak of what health officials suspect is norovirus has sickened more than 100 students and staff members at two Pinckney Community Schools this week.

It was intended to be someone's Christmas present, but a Nintendo Wii already raffled off twice in Hamburg Township could end up on a much bigger mission.