Waterford Township police are seeking the public’s help in finding a man wanted in connection with the early-morning murder of a 28-year-old Waterford man in the vicinity of M-59 and Voorhies today, Sunday, July 31 around 2:30 a.m. Police say James Dean Odle was shot several times near S. Lynn and Lakeview streets. Odle was found in a nearby yard, where he had died, police said. The suspect is described as a thin black male, [...]

Bikers will converge on the streets of downtown Milford when the third annual Milford Criterium road bike races are held on Sunday, July 31. Registration will take place on July 31 at 7 a.m. at the event, ending 30 minutes prior to the scheduled starting time of each race. Registration fees range from $15 for junior bikers to $45 for the top professional male bikers. Each rider must wear a helmet. The event is being [...]

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is looking to renovate the Cass Lake boating access site at Dodge Park No. 4 and is giving the public, including those owning property on or living on the lake, a chance to have their say. A special public meeting on the proposal has been scheduled by the DNR for 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4 inside Dodge Park No. 4 in Waterford Township at the boating access site. [...]

Metro Detroit’s largest motorcycle festival will be coming to the Multi-Lakes Conservation Association in Commerce Township this weekend, starting Thursday, July 28 and running through Sunday, July 31. Bike Week will include a custom bike show, freestyle motocross, demonstration rides, burnout pits, Miss Detroit Bike Week Babe, a ZZ Top look-alike and tattoo contests, cage fights, a bikini bike wash, Red Stag Boothill Saloon, a bike blessing, church services, as well as a variety of [...]

Kelley LaFontaine of the LaFontaine Automotive Group was recently named National Woman of the Year by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society after raising over $150,000 for blood cancer research and patient services. She was also awarded the title of Michigan Woman of the Year. She was nominated by her brother, Ryan, who was the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s 2010 Man of the Year after he raised more than $225,000. Kelley LaFontaine said on the Clarkston [...]

That was fast. Seemingly as soon as Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner John P. McCulloch entered the race for the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow in 2012, he has withdrawn his candidacy and thrown his support behind former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra. The third-term Republican formally announced his Senate bid earlier this month and yesterday, Tuesday, July 26, ended his campaign and backed Hoekstra, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives [...]

The West Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees has approved a content policy for the township’s website and various other sites. Under the new township policy, the township’s website and various media sites such as Facebook and Twitter would be used for providing emergency information as quickly as possible, information about basic township services, and upcoming events related to township government. The websites would also be used for providing information about West Bloomfield Township to the [...]

With the resurfacing of the M-59 corridor set to begin sometime in the next couple months, the White Lake Township Community Development Department was hoping to see the pathways along M-59 repaired, as well. However, at a Tuesday, July 19 Board of Trustees meeting, the township’s governing body received an update from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) that this would not be an option. “We were told that it’s not within the scope of [...]

Tents are usually an integral part of the camping experience. However, for the past year and a half, the Proud Lake Recreation Area has been able to offer an alternative arrangement for those not too keen on sleeping on the ground or being without electricity for the night, since it was chosen as one of 15 state campgrounds to have camper cabins. The camper cabins began to appear in various state campgrounds a few years [...]

Whether it was at the helm of his Sea Ray or running one of his bowling alleys, Jack Norton let passion direct his course. Norton, owner of Waterford Lanes in Waterford Township and Albion Country Lanes, passed away Saturday, July 23. He was 83. An icon in the bowling industry throughout the Detroit area, Norton transformed Waterford’s Tru-Way Plaza from a ghost town into a flourishing strip center and renamed it Waterford Lakes Plaza. “After [...]