Beecher News

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High scoring Southwestern guard Jojuan Graham will face Hamady and area leading scorer Roy Jackson in the Coca Cola Classic at Flint Northern Wednesday.

Andre Haywood, 20, of Flint volunteers for Mid Michigan Community Outreach at Merril Elementary in Flint earlier this month.

While all nine Flint Board of Education members opted to skip a national educators conference last month, it's a step closer to having a revised travel reimbursement policy going forward.

And, gosh, we can't have that. Honestly, is there no check or balance on the actions of these people? They're overpaid, over-traveled and now they're picking off their "enemies." If the voters of Beecher don't dump these frauds and dismantle that useless board , I'll be amazed.

The Beecher Metropolitan District is dumping an administrator who criticized board members for their high spending on travel earlier this year.

After a Genesee County man was shot to death Friday afternoon in Mt. Morris Township, his family is asking police and the community for justice.

With many people struggling just to pay the bills, the Salvation Army is expecting to help more families than ever this holiday season.

Flint residents line up to cast their votes at Doyle-Rider Elementary School during the 2004 general election.

Now that November is here, the Salvation Army of Genesee County wants you to start thinking about the holidays and helping those in need.

CLAYTON TWP., Michigan - A 24-year-old Flint man was in the Genesee County Jail following a 2 a.m. Saturday, Oct.

A tape-recording of a controversial Beecher Metropolitan Water & Sewer District meeting is missing and so is a second tape recorder that had been left in a meeting room of the agency's board of directors.

I was very glad to read the article "Board Halts Travel." It was made public that the Beecher water and sewer board was using tax money for vacations, hotel stays and expensive dining.

As a resident of Beecher, I am indeed angry at the board members elected to the Beecher Metropolitan Water and Sewer Board who were was entrusted to carry out the duties of said job in an honest an honorable manner.

The president of the Beecher Metropolitan Water & Sewer District ordered an employee there to delay releasing information about work the agency paid to have done on his personal property.

The economy is taking its toll on more than just the average worker. Children are feeling the strain too, and it doesn't stop when they walk into school.

The president of the Beecher Metropolitan Water & Sewer District ordered an employee there to delay releasing information about work the agency paid to have done on his personal property.

I see the Beecher Travel Club - aka the Beecher Metropolitan Water & Sewer District board - has suspended travel for two years.But it's not because of the public anger over the board spending $154,000 on trips to "conferences" the past six years.No, sir.

Michigan is seeing an overall upward trend in schools making the federally required Annual Yearly Progress, but in Genesee County, the opposite seems to be happening.

A member of the Beecher Metropolitian District has submitted a letter of resignation but also rescinded that decision, leaving her future on the water and sewer board in question.