By C.J. Carnacchio Oxford Leader Editor ROCHESTER HILLS ? For a woman accused of a double homicide and facing the prospect of spending the rest of her life in prison, Sylvia Marie Majewska was preoccupied with the fact she didn’t have her eyeglasses. Twice the 65-year-old Addison woman brought it up while answering questions posed […]
By Meg Peters Review Staff Writer Last night, while Powers Distributing delivered around 24,000 cases of beer, drivers saved about 7.4 million tons of carbon emissions from being released into the atmosphere. Just one of their hybrid delivery tractor saves the world from 53 million tons of carbon emissions over seven years. They have 20. […]
Ortonville-Army veteran Steven Bellant was honored on Sept. 4 by about 60 members of the Patriot Guard following services at Coats Village Funeral Home, Sherman Wilk Chapel, 135 South St. Patriot Guard Ride Captain and Independence Township resident John Koval said the group was invited by the family to post in front of the funeral […]
Since 2002, Ortonville United Methodist Church members have traveled to a rural coal mining community in Kentucky seeking to improve the lives of the people living there. This year, eight OUMC members traveled to Wallins Creek, Ky. as part of the annual Red Bird mission trip. They stayed at a Girl Scout camp constructed around […]
By Meg Peters Review Staff Writer Skills are easy to come by if you are a student in the Lake Orion P.H.A.S.E.S. class. From financial to fitness, house maintenance to business, students aged 18 to 26 will learn how to prepare their own meals, fold and put away their clothes, hold a steady job and […]
By Meg Peters Review Staff Writer At 1:30 p.m. on a Friday eve, Mary Rodgers was shocked her team of volunteers had (almost) completely finished packing up Christmas boxes for local seniors. In years past packing up the Christmas Basket Program goody-bags had lasted into the wee hours of early evening, but the Lions Club […]
Brandon Twp.-In the1980s, township resident Roger McCarville once told a Detroit newspaper, ‘Rosa Parks could get on the bus to protest (and) we still can’t get on the bus.? McCarville’s quip at Detroit City officials, followed his arrest after he and others chained themselves to city buses on Jefferson Avenue, protesting a lack of adequate […]
Ortonville-Army veteran Steven Bellant was honored on Sept. 4 by about 60 members of the Patriot Guard following services at Coats Village Funeral Home, Sherman Wilk Chapel, 135 South St. Patriot Guard Ride Captain and Independence Township resident John Koval said the group was invited by the family to post in front of the funeral […]
Ortonville-Sanitary sewers or wastewater treatment system. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. The village council took another step toward improvement to the village by passing a formal resolution requesting assistance from the county at their Dec. 15 meeting. The resolution, unanimously passed, notes that the village is ‘in need of acquiring […]
Jobs and an economic boost to communities impacted by the proposed ET Rover pipeline were touted by labor supporters at a recent public hearing. On Dec. 10, several hundred attended a meeting to provide input to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at Gateway Centre in Mundy Township regarding the proposed ET Rover natural gas pipeline […]