The Waterford Township Police Department brought holiday cheer to nearly 90 children this Christmas season during its fifth annual “Shop With a Hero” event on Saturday, Dec. 17. “The kids were full of excitement and very appreciative,” said Waterford Police Sergeant Scott Good. “They were concerned about making sure they bought gifts not only themselves, but for their siblings and other family members. Their hearts were full of giving to others ahead of receiving for [...]

 White Lake Township is celebrating 175 years this year and, as such, the township is preparing a time capsule to commemorate the milestone. One of the items going into the time capsule will be a book filled with the names and addresses of White Lake residents. According to Trustee Carol Burkard, the book is being kept at the White Lake Township library at least until the end of the month. The time capsule will [...]

What was supposed to be a night of fun and celebration for 250 to 300 people turned into chaos around 2 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 23, when gunfire erupted at the Rolladium skating rink in Waterford Township, wounding five people, including a 20-year-old White Lake Township woman. Waterford police have also identified one of the suspects in the shooting that wounded the five young adults — including a 20-year-old man, another 20-year-old woman, a 21-year-old [...]

A Commerce Township teenager is in critical condition after he was accidentally shot in the face in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Dec. 27 at a house party on the 2000 block of Nacona. Oakland County Sheriff’s Department Commerce Township Substation deputies were called to the scene around 1:55 a.m. Initially, it was unclear if the wound was self-inflicted or the result of an accidental shooting by one of the other teens at the [...]

The West Bloomfield High School Auditorium on Saturday, Dec. 17 was alive with the sound of strings from the school district’s orchestra students and a Grammy-award winning musician. Students from West Bloomfield High School, Abbott Middle School and Orchard Lake Middle School joined Mark O’Connor, a renowned violinist, fiddler and composer, for a special concert program entitled “An American Festival,” a show that was part of a contest won by Abbott students. “The concert was [...]

 An 80-year-old Waterford Township woman was killed in a car crash on Wednesday, Dec. 21, that also sent a 21-year-old West Bloomfield woman and two young children to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. According to a Waterford Township Police Department press release, the woman was traveling southbound on Telegraph Road near Pontiac Lake Road in Waterford at around 10 a.m. when her 2004 Chrysler Concord crossed into the northbound lanes, striking a 2004 [...]

The Commerce Township Community Library will be hiring two more full-time employees in 2012 — a children’s librarian and an adult services manager — in a move that will allow each department to have three full-time librarians. Currently, the library has four full-time librarians to cover two service desks for the 66 hours each week the library is open. “We have trouble covering the desks sometimes between vacation days and sending our librarians to different [...]

Part of the large crowd at the White Lake Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 20 meeting attended as a result of an issue raised by White Lake resident Matt Sprader. Apparently, the main point of contention involved work at a couple baseball fields being built in township parks. Over the summer and fall, contractors combined Vetter Park’s two original fields into a single, irrigated baseball field. A multi-purpose building was also built to [...]

The West Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees has approved a number of recommendations from the township’s Personnel Committee, including reinstating the elections specialist/coordinator position. The board’s decision was made at a Monday, Dec. 12 meeting. In a letter to the committee, Township Clerk Cathy Shaughnessy stated that she chose not to fill the elections specialist/coordinator post when it was vacated three years ago, but that duties in the Clerk’s Office have increased since then. Shaughnessy [...]

Gov. Rick Snyder has signed a controversial redistricting bill into law that applies only to Oakland County and requires the Republican-controlled county Board of Commissioners to redraw the board’s district boundaries after a panel helmed by Democrats passed a district map in May. Democrats decried the legislation, House Bill (HB) 5187, sponsored by state Rep. Bradford Jacobsen (R-Lake Orion), as a political maneuver designed to wrench control of the redistricting process away from them after [...]