The Oakland County Sheriff’s Department employed both the K-9 Unit and the Aviation Unit to help search for an elderly woman who went missing yesterday morning, Nov. 15, in Highland Township and was found just hours after being reported missing. The woman, 81-year-old Highland Township resident Patricia Lee Zebda, had last been seen sleeping at a residence in the 700 block of Allen Road near Grandview by her daughter at around 3:30 a.m. before the [...]

The Highland Township Board of Trustees approved the township’s budget for 2012 at its last meeting. While total revenue projected at approximately $2.14 million is down slightly from this year’s total revenue of $2.26 million, the township was able to balance the budget while having a bit left over. “We had a slight revenue amount higher than we had anticipated. We’ve taken the additional funding and placed it in capital improvements,” said Supervisor Triscia Pilchowski. [...]

An Oakland County grand jury has indicted a 21-year-old Highland Township man with first-degree premeditated murder for the slaying of his mother in May. Around 2:30 p.m. on May 27, deputies from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department Highland Township Substation were dispatched to a home in the 2400 block of Burwood Court in response to an emergency call. The victim, 51-year-old Ruth Anne Pyne, was found dead on the floor of the home’s garage with [...]

An Oakland County grand jury has indicted a 21-year-old Highland Township man with first-degree premeditated murder for the slaying of his mother in May. Around 2:30 p.m. on May 27, deputies from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department Highland Township Substation were dispatched to a home in the 2400 block of Burwood Court in response to an emergency call. The victim, 51-year-old Ruth Anne Pyne, was found dead on the floor of the home’s garage with [...]

A lot can happen in 50 years. Just imagine how the world will have changed by 2039 — especially when compared with how things were in 1989, which is when Highland Township first buried its time capsule. Much has changed in the 22 years since the capsule was buried — and not just going from cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s. The land the capsule was buried in has since changed ownership and may do [...]

Last year marked the first ever Dancing with Horses event for the Highland Equestrian Conservancy (HEC), and it was so successful that they aren’t just having another show this year — they have decided to have two. “We’ve decided to have two shows this year because it was so largely attended last year. We had over 500 people attend, and although we sold tickets through PayPal in advance, we got swamped,” said Jan Nastovski, a [...]

The Huron Valley School District unveiled its goals for the 2011-12 school year on Thursday, Sept. 15, with the No. 1 priority being focused on increased student achievement in reading, writing and math measured by multiple assessments. “As a board we believe that goal-setting and tracking is essential to understanding and evaluating where we are at as a district,” said Board of Education President Sean Carlson. “Goal-setting and tracking helps to drive focus and alignment [...]

The Highland Township Board of Trustees decided at its Wednesday, Sept. 14 meeting to continue contracting with a county department for assessing services. “This a renewal with Oakland County. We’ve contracted with them for the past 10 or more years,” said Clerk Mary McDonell. The Oakland County Equalization Division is to be responsible for conducting all the township’s annual assessments of real and personal property through the 2011, 2012, and 2013 tax years, according to [...]

Horsin’ Around in Highland plus Pet-A-PALooza equals one great family weekend with the first-ever Highland HeyDays. Highland HeyDays is a two-day family festival held in downtown Highland geared towards bringing families, friends, neighbors, and pets together to celebrate the Highland community. This will be the first year of the two-day festival after local organizations decided to combine the annual square dance with a pet awareness day. The Highland Downtown Development Authority’s (DDA) Horsin’ Around in [...]

The move to close Highland Middle School in the Huron Valley School District has necessitated redistricting students to balance enrollment, and efforts have been under way since the spring to make the transition easier for those students impacted. “Transition is hard for families and we’ve tried to make it softer by offering open enrollment where we could and trying to keep neighborhoods together so it is less stressful on the students and families,” said Huron [...]