Orchard Lake St. Mary’s snapped a three-game losing streak with a 57-47 victory at home over Detroit Jesuit on Friday, Jan. 28. St. Mary’s took control of the game with a 21-9 run in the second half. Allen Robinson led the Eaglets with 29 points on the night, while Justin Barrows scored 12. Chris Jenkins had 22 points to lead Jesuit. St. Mary’s began the week with a 53-51 loss at home to Birmingham Brother [...]

West Bloomfield fell to Clarkston, 60-50, on Thursday, Jan. 27, as is still trying to keep pace in the Oakland Activities Association (OAA) Red Division. The Lakers (7-3 overall, 4-2 in the OAA Red) trailed 23-20 at halftime and couldn’t generate enough offense to overcome the Wolves. Spencer Parker had 14 points to lead the Lakers, while Darren Byrd had 13 and Nick Leventis had 12. Clarkston (7-5, 4-2) was led by Nick Tatu with [...]

The Kensington Lakes Activities Association (KLAA) North Division is now Walled Lake Central’s to lose, after the Vikings picked up a key division victory, 44-37, at Huron Valley Lakeland on Friday, Jan. 28. Central is now 10-2 and sits at a perfect 6-0 in the KLAA North, three games ahead of Waterford Kettering, Waterford Mott and Walled Lake Northern, who all have 3-3 North Division records with four division games remaining. The first half was [...]

It was a tough week for the first-place team in the Kensington Lakes Activities Association (KLAA) North Division, as Waterford Mott went 1-2 against opponents from the KLAA West. The Corsairs (13-4 overall, 8-2 in the KLAA North) began the week with a 6-4 loss to Howell, last year’s Division 1 state runner-up, on the road on Monday, Jan. 24. The Highlanders led 1-0 after the first period and outscored the Corsairs 4-2 in the [...]

Waterford Kettering had only one game last week, but made it count as the Captains defeated Walled Lake Central, 9-1, at Lakeland Ice Arena on Wednesday, Jan. 26. Taylor Gilliland and Nick Murphy each had three goals and two assists for Kettering (11-3-3 overall, 5-3-1 in the Kensington Lakes Activities Association North Division), while Drew Carnes, Austin Carpenter and Justin Haley each scored a goal. Zach Zimmerman and Alex Grix each had three assists and [...]

Huron Valley Lakeland fell 7-2 to Pinckney at the Arctic Coliseum on Saturday, Jan. 29. Ryan Biondo scored for the Eagles early before JP Maricani scored to tie the game at 1-1 in the first period. The Pirates then scored on three power-play goals, with two of them from Maricani and one from Scott Johnson to take a 4-1 lead into the first intermission. Bobby Schumacher scored for Lakeland in the second period before Maricani [...]

Huron Valley Milford and Walled Lake Western skated to a 3-3 tie on Friday, Jan. 28 at the Hartland Sports Center. Ryan Taylor scored first for Milford (5-11-1) in the first period off assists from Evan Wilson and Dave Thornton, before Zack Mitchell scored for Western (8-7-1) off assists from Cooper Nye and Trevor Couch. In the second period, Keith Richards scored for Milford off assists from Tyler Matrial and Nick Ferrara, before Josh Raptis [...]

The Oakland County Board of Commissioners is expected to consider a resolution tonight, Wednesday, Feb. 2 that would grant the authority to Board of Commissioners Chairman Mike Gingell (R-Lake Orion) to appoint an ad hoc committee to study the county’s 20-year-old ethics policy and possibly propose changes. This comes after a Democratic commissioner towards the tail end of last year put forth proposed modifications of his own, although they were eventually scuttled by a procedural [...]

It’s little surprise that the recent indictment of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and others over the alleged use of Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) contracts to line their own pockets has spurred multiple proposals to “regionalize” oversight of Detroit’s water and sewer systems. Various legislative proposals introduced in Lansing would place the state’s Public Services Commission in control of the DWSD or create a large regional water and sewer authority made up of [...]

From Donna Gundle-Krieg, Highland Township: Voters, wake up! Bill Bullard Jr. is proposing a change in election law that will limit our rights. Bullard recently resigned for a better job as Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds shortly after voters re-elected him to be Oakland County Commissioner. Several townships are justifiably upset that they have to pay for the cost of special elections for Bullard’s replacement. To deflect criticism for his untimely departure at taxpayers’ expense, [...]