Robert Maechtle, a manager at Motor City Electric in Sterling Heights, plead guilty on Jan. 11 to charges of conspiring to give a $2,000 cash bribe to the late Washington Township public works superintendent Steven…
Posts published in January 2018
Thomas Badke, 61, of Bruce Township was fatally shot Jan. 9 at his Clinton Township business, Reliable Fence Company. Clinton Township resident Jerry Daniel Motley was arraigned on five felony counts in Badke’s death before…
The murder charges against James VanCallis stand. Last week, the Michigan Court of Appeals upheld the first-degree murder conviction of VanCallis for the July 2014 beating death of 14-year-old Armada resident April Millsap along the…
BY STACY SOBOTKA Last week a water line break shut down Oakland Township Hall. Oakland Township Assistant Fire Chief Lou Danek gave an update to the Oakland Township Board of Trustees on the fix and…
BY KADE MESSNER Romeo High School Varsity Football Team co-head coach Jason Couch says leaving the school where he played as a student and spent 15 years as a coach is tough. “It was the…
Romeo basketball fans were treated to some exciting basketball games this week. On Tuesday, Jan. 9, the boys won against Grosse Pointe North High School with a shot at the game ending buzzer, 62-59. Meanwhile,…
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The Rochester-Avon Historical Society will be discussing kit houses by mail at its next monthly meeting. From 1906 through the 1980s, it was possible to purchase an entire house through the mail. There are many…
The Eighth Annual Samaritan House Pasta and Chicken Dinner will be held 5 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 7 at Greystone Golf Club and Banquet Center. The non-profit organization operated by 17 churches in the…
BY STACY SOBOTKA Blake’s Cider received a special honor for one of its hard ciders. Cidercraft Magazine, a magazine dedicated to all things cider, awarded Blake’s Sir Lushington a double gold medal in the oak-aged…