Pinckney News

'Ghengis' John Fletcher has added two upcoming dates to his 'Ghengis for Gleaners' crusade.

Starting tonight at 8 p.m., there will be a single-lane closure on westbound Interstate 96 between Kent Lake Road in the New Hudson Area and U.S. 23 in Brighton Township.

"We have legislators who have not addressed the problem of funding for the schools.

Livonia's Spree '59' week-long celebration will feature more than carnival rides, racing pigs, the circus, pie eating contests, battle of the bands and the Sunday night fireworks.

Pull!'' In the millisecond it takes for the target to launch, Jason Jonckheere studies its movement before blasting it into pieces.

Putnam Township residents will be served by the Pinckney Police Department for another year, despite a move by the Livingston County Sheriff to get the contract back by talking directly to township Supervisor Ron Rau.

Students generally walk into Pathfinder School's Choose to Lead class thinking they're headed for a semester of planning dances and school social events.

Frederick Houghton Reinhart, Pinckney, MI and Dunedin, FL. Frederick Reinhart died peacefully of a stroke on June 12 in Ann Arbor, MI.

Pinckney teens Beth McMullen, driving, and Heather Clark battle it out on the bumper cars Wednesday during the first day of the fourth annual Hamburg Family Fun Fest in Hamburg Township.

Budget cuts at the state, county and local levels are making it increasingly difficult to keep police on the roads, said Livingston County Sheriff Bob Bezotte, who has seen his department lose 13 deputies to budget cuts.

A Hamburg Township man was killed and an Ann Arbor man injured Sunday morning when the glider in which they were traveling crashed at an airfield in rural southwestern Livingston County, police said.

Brighton District Library, 100 Library Drive, 229-6571. Visit the Web at www.brightonlibrary.info. Hours: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 1-5 p.m. Sundays.

Pinckney Recreation Area will be celebrating Michigan State Parks 90th anniversary on Saturday, June 20, with a number of "GO-Get Outdoors" activities, including geocaching, bike riding demos, children's crafts, a canoe/kayak tour, and more.

Two Pinckney Community High School freshmen boys have been diagnosed with Type A influenza, but there has been no connection made to influenza H1N1, or swine flu.

'We're requesting the right of way': Rescue personnel deal with oblivious motorists By Kristofer Karol * DAILY PRESS & ARGUS * June 9, 2009 It was the early 1980s, and Denis Aseltine was riding shotgun in a patrol car en route to an accident scene in Hamburg Township.

Pinckney Community Schools will end this fiscal year with a small budget surplus, and its draft budget for next year balances dollar for dollar.

Two Livingston County women were rushed to area hospitals Monday, both critically injured in what police believed to be a head-on crash involving a Saturn station wagon and Chevrolet minivan about seven miles south of Howell.

Fowlerville High School on Sunday became the first of Livingston County's public schools to have its Class of 2009 walk across the stage.

A 65-year-old Pinckney woman was killed and another driver was seriously injured in a two-car crash in Marion Township Monday evening, police said.

Hell businessman John Colone's battle with Putnam Township to open his miniature golf course is nearly over, but a separate fight with the county has apparently just begun.