Fenton News

The lagging Michigan economy, combined with Ann Allen's desire to retire, has claimed the life of The Willow Tree, a furniture, antiques and home accessory store in Dibbleville.

Members of the Fenton Freedom Festival planning committee are used to seeing lined street for the event's parade and packed area parking lots for the fireworks show, but attendance to this year's Fourth of July festivities exceeded anything ever done before.

This year's Fourth of July may have gotten off to a chilly start, but that wasn't enough to keep Genesee County residents away from Fenton's Independence Day parade.

Emma Bidwell, 10, of Brighton, and Zoe Weinberg, 10 of Fenton watch the Fenton Freedom Festival parade in downtown Fenton GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan - Genesee County is celebraing the founding of the nation with traditional parades, hot dogs and fireworks today, but it was the first Independence Day celebration for at least one Fenton resident.

The Open Gate Garden Club is inviting residents to dig in to seven Fenton and Linden gardens as part of the 12th annual Summer Garden Tour on July 12.

FCC Rejects WCXI Move: BIRACH BROADCASTING CORP. has been turned down by the FCC for a change of the community of license of Classic Country WCXI-A/FENTON, MI to WIXOM, MI, leaving an application for a new AM at WINFIELD, WV by SCOTT POWELL pending.

A little bit of rain never ruined a party in Fenton. Hundreds of people poured into St.

Mother nature chose a bad day to pick on Fenton. Tonight's 175th anniversary picnic in Bush Park has been moved indoors to the St.

Fans around the world are shocked and saddened by the news of Michael Jacksona s death.A Everyone seems to have a a oeMichael Moment,a a memory connected to the man or his music.

The Fenton board of education has tagged Peggy Yates as a "high performing superintendent" in its annual evaluation.

Take down the construction tape and protective tarp, Fenton's Wal-Mart Supercenter is set to debut Wednesday.

City of Fenton, brace yourself for one whopper of a picnic. Thousands are expected to gather in Bush Park on Tuesday to take in a 175-foot banana split, games, live music and other entertainment as part of a community picnic in celebration of Fenton's 175th birthday.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 11:39 p.m. Temperatures in the 90s did not stop nearly two hundred small business supporters and owners from making their case in a march down Leroy Street in Fenton Wednesday afternoon.A Perhaps a recession is the best time to let those passing by know you are open for business.A a oeWe are the ones that sponsor the ...

The city of Fenton had planned its 23rd Annual Shiawassee River Cleanup on Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. starting at the Fenton Community Center.

Police are investigating a string of larcenies from unlocked vehicles that occurred June 21.

The Oakwood Cemetery Board has seen enough. Sloppy grounds, full litter bins, sprouting weeds and no noticeable improvements were all it took for the cemetery board to vote unanimously to terminate the contract of D&W Services LLC , who maintains Fenton's Oakwood Cemetery, at a June 11 committee meeting.

Despite the economy, Fenton is growing. The small southern Genesee County community of more than 10,000 residents is in the process of building two new hotels.

Members of the Fenton-based band Die-Sect Jesse Hooker , Viviano Cuevas , Wes Nagy and James Sherman and Ajay Rosario of First Born Dead.

A Fenton woman told police that her former boyfriend slapped her while she was dancing at Snapper's bar in Deerfield Township.

Here's a plan that was doomed from the start. A car salesman from Fenton was recently ordered to repay more than $100,000 after he took cash from customers for cars that he never told the lot owner that he had sold.