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Stockbridge teacher Linda Petsch retiring after thirty years

by Amy Haggerty  After more than 30 years of teaching various subjects and grade levels in Stockbridge Community Schools, Linda Petsch is retiring. The Stockbridge native’s current teaching assignment is second grade at Smith Elementary School. Linda was teaching at the middle school in 1988 when she met the love of her life, Dennis Petsch. […]

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SHS senior receives Grant Whitaker Baseball Leadership through Character Award. Whitaker jersey number 7 retires.

by Clyde and Laura Whitaker Stockbridge High School senior Daniel Ballagh was awarded this year’s Grant Whitaker Leadership through Character Award during presentations June 6, marking the award’s fifth year. The occasion afforded special recognition and remembrance to the award’s namesake, Ingham County Sheriff’s Deputy Grant Whitaker. The award, started in 2015, recognizes an SHS […]

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Obituary: Corwin R. Dupuis

Corwin R. Dupuis, age 32, of Jackson, MI, passed away on Friday, June 7, 2019, of complications related to a chronic health problem. He was born July 7, 1986 in Ann Arbor, MI the son of David and Cynthia (Bellner) Dupuis. Corwin was a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Jackson where […]

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Waterloo Township Board Unapproved Meeting Minutes May 28, 2019

Call to Order: 7:00 p.m. Pledge Present: Lance, Walz, Kitley, McAlister. Absent: Morency. Also present: Charlie Barnum, Building Inspector; Rodney Walz, County Commissioner for District 2; 5 residents and Rob Hayes and Larry Bamford representing Aggregate Industries. Public Comment: Sheila Conant from Hideaway Lane spoke of the poorly maintained private gravel road with easements that […]

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Obituary Marilyn M. Barnhart

Marilyn M. Barnhart, of Perry, MI, age 88, passed away at Sparrow Hospital on May 30, 2019. She was born the daughter of Frank and Vesta (Wood) Wild on July 15, 1930 in Stockbridge, MI. On January 13, 1951 she married Gerald Barnhart, and he survives.  Surviving are two children, Linda (Tim) McDaniels of Perry […]