From the Denise “Chip” Black, Milford: A state’s budget is both a moral statement and a vision for the future. The budget for next year reveals a failure to accept moral responsibility on the part of Gov. Rick Snyder and his cohorts in the state Legislature. Their budget offers a bleak vision for the future of Michigan. It demonstrates that corporations are valued over human beings, the rich are more worthy than the needy, and [...]

The village of Milford will soon be getting a boost — an electric boost, that is — in the form of six new charging stations for electric vehicles in the downtown area. The Village Council voted Monday, June 20 to approved a proposal from the village’s Parking Authority to have three charging stations installed in the east municipal parking lot near Union Street and three charging stations installed in the village’s west parking lot. Village [...]

Milford Village officials are looking into the need for increased safety measures along a local stretch of the Huron River after a teenager and a 48-year-old Milford resident both drowned near a dam in Milford Township on May 21, after the teen fell out of his canoe and the man tried to rescue him. “We’re still looking into it. The village owns the dam, but the dam isn’t in the village and is part of [...]

Huron Valley Milford’s boys basketball team has showed why it’s important to perform great in the classroom as well as on the basketball court. The Mavericks were ranked by the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan as the No. 1 academic team in Class A with an average grade point average of 3.66. Milford finished ahead of Traverse City Central (3.64) and Grand Haven (3.60) in the rankings. According to Milford Head Coach Chip Lutz, the [...]

Sparks in the Park, an annual community festival being held this year at Huron Valley Milford High School in Highland Township, will take place this Saturday, June 25 beginning at 3 p.m. First started 11 years ago, it has grown into a summer festival attracting approximately 10,000 people annually. What follows is a run-down of this year’s event schedule: • The Great Campout and family activities — 3 p.m. • Sparks Market Avenue — 4 [...]

The Milford Township Board of Trustees at its Wednesday, June 15 meeting approved a bid of $527,450.78 from Commerce Construction & Landscaping to make improvements to the intersection of Milford and Dawson roads. Township Supervisor Don Green said that the project should begin after July 4 and should be completed near the end of August, barring weather or any other unforeseen circumstances. The engineer’s original estimated cost of the intersection improvements was $772,437. “I was [...]

The Waterford School District’s employee unions have ratified their contracts set to take effect on July 1. The unions include the Waterford Education Association (WEA) and three Michigan Educational Support Professional Association (MESPA) units — one for secretaries, another for instructional aides and library technicians, and the third for custodians and cafeteria, maintenance and transportation workers. Bill Holbrook, the district’s director of finance and budget, said that all employees were scheduled for a two-percent wage [...]

Huron Valley Milford High School will be welcoming a new assistant principal in the 2011-12 school year, as the Huron Valley Schools Board of Education approved the appointment of Michele Butler to the position at a June 9 board meeting. Butler will be replacing Assistant Principal Joyce Scochin, who is retiring. Butler comes to Huron Valley from Yuma, Ariz., where she served as an assistant principal over the past six years. She earned a bachelor’s [...]

Downtown Milford will soon be turned into an art museum thanks to a campaign by the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). Ann , director of the Milford Downtown Development Authority (DDA), said that the DDA has been contacted by the DIA about being a participant in the DIA’s “Inside Out” program, which brings reproductions of the museum’s best works to hang in areas across metro Detroit for the public to view. According to Barnette, the [...]

Huron Valley Schools Superintendent Jackie Johnston’s contract was extended for another year in a Thursday, June 9 unanimous vote of Board of Education members. Johnston’s contract is now effective July 1, 2011 and ends on June 30, 2014. The decision to extend Johnston’s contract adds fodder to the argument that some area school boards, including Huron Valley’s, have made a practice of annually extending their superintendents’ multi-year contracts, thereby keeping school districts on the hook [...]