The White Lake Township Board of Trustees approved a change to the township’s procurement policy during its Tuesday, Sept. 20 meeting. The procurement policy describes who is the purchasing agent for the township. Several years ago, the task was delegated to the Clerk’s Office from Supervisor’s Office. However, because being the purchasing agent is typically considered a responsibility of the supervisor, White Lake Supervisor Greg Baroni decided to revert procurements back to the Supervisor’s Office. [...]

From Paul Kane, White Lake: A personal experience close to home helps me understand some of what comes out of our current White House. Last year, a former brother-in-law stopped by the house to drop off some items for his son. I was traveling to visit his son, my nephew, at a state university and I was going to save him a trip. That former brother-in-law and I have never seen eye-to-eye on political matters [...]

From Clark S. Robbins, White Lake: I was really surpised to find that Consumers Energy is a terrible place to work — and I mean terrible. I feel sorry for the employees who have to work there. Why do I say this? For the last seven months, I have been dealing with Consumers Energy over a relatively simple problem. I provided them the information and they apparently lost it. It was on E-Services two weeks [...]

The White Lake Township Fire Department was kept busy in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Sept. 14, when several vehicles were set on fire. Firefighters arrived at the 200 block of Clairbone around 1:30 a.m. to find a vehicle fully engulfed in flames. During the time they were fighting that fire, another fire broke out in a second vehicle, as did a blaze in another vehicle a few houses down the street, according to [...]

Projects at White Lake Township’s Vetter Park are well under way and being completed well under the initial conservative cost estimates, according to township officials. The White Lake Parks and Recreation Committee held a special meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 14 to review the contract costs for the work being done to redevelop the park, according to township staff planner Jason Iacoangeli. “The cost has been under what was expected,” he said. “We’re looking at spending [...]

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 [...]

From Paul Kane, White Lake Township: Republicans in Lansing, stop! Requiring that all doctors report physical statistics for all children in the state for a centralized database in Lansing? This is another power grab that will result in more loss of freedom. Republicans were not put into positions of power in the last election so that we could have a Republican brand of big government instead of a Democrat brand of big government. We want [...]

Huron Valley Lakeland is alone in first-place in the Kensington Lakes Activities Association (KLAA) after two division wins this past week. The Eagles (12-4 overall, 3-0 in the KLAA North Division) began the week by defeating Waterford Mott on the road, 25-3, 25-12, 25-17, on Thursday, Sept. 13. Brittany Leonard had 6 kills and 3 aces, while Lindsey Tanner had 5 kills and 5 aces. Lakeland then hosted Walled Lake Western on Thursday, Sept. 15 [...]

White Lake Township residents were able to begin using the White Lake Township Library again on Wednesday, Sept. 7, after the building had been closed for over a month due to renovations. And according to Library Director Larry Ostrowski, residents weren’t disappointed when they got a look at the renovations. “We had a lot of positive comments,” he said. “There were lots of ‘oohs’ and ‘ahhs’ from residents about the new layout.” Adult services were [...]

From Henry Storm, White Lake Township: With the national attention on the T.E.A. (Taxed Enough Already) Party and, after noting in (another Oakland County newspaper) there would be an event in Milford on Saturday, Sept. 3, I was surprised there was no follow-up story… regarding what occurred at the event. My wife (64-years-old) and I (65-years-old) attended to see what so-called “terrorists” might look like in our local community. We were not surprised to find [...]