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 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 [...]

Commerce Township firefighters arrived at a residence in the 1800 block of Marella Lane to find an attached garage engulfed in flames at 7:28 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 30. The garage was attached to a tri-level home. The fire was brought under control within 20 minutes with assistance from the Walled Lake Fire Department. Damage was confined to the garage area, and the cause of the fire is under investigation. No residents or firefighters were [...]

Commerce Township Firefighters responded to a vehicle fire at 2:58 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 2 in the 8100 block of Cooley Lake Road. According to the homeowner, the vehicle had not been driven for over a week. Firefighters determined that the fire started in the vehicle’s passenger seat. The blaze is being further investigated.

The Commerce Township Board Trustees is at a bit of an impasse as the board looks to adopt the township’s 2012 budget. So far, one presented spending plan has been voted down, while another was tabled at a meeting earlier this month. The two budgets were similar, by and large, according to Commerce Township Clerk Dan Munro. The total revenue for Commerce was proposed at $5.22 million with total expenditures coming in at about $4.5 [...]

Two gas carts were stolen from the Union Lake Golf Course in Commerce Township on the night of Saturday, Nov. 19. The following Monday morning, the owner of the golf course, John Schlicht, noticed that the security cables had been cut and the gas-powered carts were missing. Somehow the culprits were able to get the carts started and drove out of the golf course on Golf Lane. Each of the carts costs between $2,000 and [...]

 An Oakland County Sheriff’s Department Commerce Township substation deputy was traveling westbound on Maple Road near Sycamore Court in his patrol vehicle a little after midnight on Sunday, Nov. 13 when the passenger-side door was struck by a deer. While the deputy was unhurt and the vehicle only sustained minor damage to the passenger door, rear quarter-panel and bumper, the deputy had to put the deer down by discharging a firearm.

 The Bay Pointe Golf Course at Union Lake and Richardson roads in Commerce Township was the target of vandalism on the night of Thursday, Nov. 3. According to an Oakland County Sheriff’s Department Commerce Township substation incident report, a golf tee sign was torn from its post, resulting in approximately $1,200 in damage. Tee markers were also pulled up and several trash cans turned up missing. It’s unknown whether they were completely removed from [...]

Voters in the Huron Valley School District tapped Bonnie Brown and Jeffrey Long for two four-year terms on the Board of Education during the Tuesday, Nov. 8 general election. Eight challengers faced off against incumbent Brown, who was elected by taking 23 percent (1,976) of the total votes. “The reason I ran after being appointed initially was that I love what I’m doing and kids have always been my life,” Brown said. “I wanted to [...]

Picture a time when travel was considered luxurious, when people wore suits and dresses, ties and high heels to travel across the country. Before 1968, when airplanes rendered passenger trains nearly obsolete, it was standard to see people dressed in their finest as they boarded a train from Chicago to New York or Louisiana or California. “People traveling by trains in the 1950s dressed very nice — dress, suit, tie,” said Seth Lampe, a volunteer [...]