Independence Township Parks and Recreation is now accepting registrations for the Start Smart Program. This is a six-week program in which parents work one-on-one with their child in a supportive environment to learn all the basic skills of a sport. Start Smart will offer soccer and baseball and the opportunity to play outdoors. Classes will […]
A woman wearing a ski mask successfully robbed the Burger King restaurant on Dixie Highway near Maybee Road on Dec. 21, escaping with a total of $892 in cash, according to Oakland County Sheriff reports. The suspect entered the restaurant at about 7 a.m., ordering employees to the back of the store. Although she neither […]
Jim Wedlake said he ‘felt like a speck on the ice.? ‘The airplane dropped us off about 70 miles from the North Pole,? said Wedlake. ‘I never felt so alone or so isolated. There’s no land under us’it’s like an ice conveyor belt moving all the time. You go to sleep at night and wake […]
Brandon Twp.- A 2-page letter from Enbridge appears to possibly be a response to a recent township resolution requesting higher standards for the company’s planned replacement of a petroleum pipeline here. However, the letter, dated Aug. 31, does not specifically mention the township resolution and instead defends Enbridge’s current design standards and emphasizes that pipeline […]
Improve your basketball skills with Varsity Boys Coach Dan Fife and his coaching staff at Fife Fundamentals Basketball Camp. The camp will be July 7-10 from 8 a.m.-12 p.m. at the high school gym. Enrollment is open to boys entering 4th-6th grade. The cost is $140. Forms can be picked up at the athletic office. […]
County deputies had to kick in a rear windshield to rescue passengers covered in snow after their vehicle rolled over on northbound I-75 north of Sashabaw Road. The incident occurred at about 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 24. Deputies found the car on its roof about 75 feet off the roadway with two passengers inside. One […]
Springfield Township government will soon take a more active role in the administration of lake improvement boards. Some of the details will not be worked out until early 2005, but trustees on Dec. 5 agreed to at least house records of what Supervisor Collin Walls calls ‘quasi-governmental? agencies. By next March, trustees are expected to […]
Emergency responders set up equipment and worked for most of the day Monday after chemicals were discovered flowing from a cooling tower at Clarkston Junior High School. No injuries were reported. The problem was first discovered when a Clarkston resident noticed an unusual green hue in the river behind her home on Waldon Road, just […]
The Genesee County Sheriff’s Department responded to a burglary at PharmD Co., 8191 State Road, Goodrich. According to police reports in the early morning hours of Aug. 28, the phone lines to the building in the Goodrich Plaza were cut in an effort to disarm the security system. Entry was gained and an undisclosed amount […]
Michigan is getting its own federal Urban Search and Rescue Task Force, and it’s going to be based in Independence Township. ‘There are 28 Federal Emergency Management Agency teams across the nation,? said Chief Steve Ronk, Independence Township Fire Department, to the township board. ‘The closest ones to Michigan are in Indianapolis or Miami Valley, […]