BY STACY SOBOTKA The Oakland Township Board of Trustees adopted a gas and oil drilling ordinance at their meeting Feb. 9. The ordinance allows the township to review special land use applications for oil and…
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BY HAYDEN MORGAN A group of Romeo High School students, known as the Byting Bulldogs, FIRST Robotics Competition Team 3539, have been working six hours a day and six days a week toward standing in…
BY DEBI MARTONE STAFF WRITER A jury of made up of six men and six women found James VanCallis guilty of the murder of April Millsap, a 14 year-old Armada girl who was killed along…
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BY LARRY SOBCZAK EDITOR The Romeo Board of Education has proposed an $86 million dollar bond that would make big changes to Romeo Community Schools if approved by voters at a May 3 special election.…
BY JERRY FRAEYMAN Washington Township will be filling a vacancy on the Board of Trustees after the death of longtime treasurer Linda Verellen on Jan. 30. Verellen, 73, was the township’s treasurer for 28 years.…
BY JAN SHIER A new Michigan law prohibits government agencies such as library districts, school districts and local municipalities from distributing information about ballot proposals 60 days before an election. Two local agencies impacted by…
BY DEBI MARTONE STAFF WRITER The Bruce Township Planning Commission voted 4-1 in favor of changing an ordinance to allow three story structures at its Jan. 27 meeting. Planning Commissioner Marq Apel cast the only…
Romeo changes ordinance to allow peddlers BY DEBI MARTONE STAFF WRITER The Romeo Police Department answered a number of calls recently from residents who had concerns about opening their door to a vacuum salesman, a…
BY DEBI MARTONE STAFF WRITER Teachers, administrators, board members and parents that make up the Romeo Community Schools Effective Grading Practices Study Group recently made revisions to their policy for students in grades six through…