Approximately 30 minutes before the Northville High School baseball team’s Division 1 district championship game against Novi on June 1, an elementary school-aged boy approached Mustang center-fielder/lead-off batter/future first-round MLB Draft pick Dante’ Nori. With equal parts shyness and awe, the boy handed Nori a baseball over the fence that separated the playing field and […]
Born one year before the Titanic sank, Canton resident is still going strong as she celebrates her 113th birthday today on July 4th. Gibson continues her reign as Michigan’s oldest living person as she Read More
After serving as Canton High School athletic director for approximately 18 months, Kristen Farkas was appointed the Trenton (Mich.) Public Schools athletic director for grades 6 through 12 during the June 24 TPS board of education meeting. Farkas will Read More
Will 22-year-old Birmingham resident Drew Basile win for the fifth consecutive time on Jeopardy! tonight at 7:30 p.m. on NBC, earning a coveted berth in the show’s “Tournament of Champions”? You can find out Read More
On the longest day of the year — and undoubtedly one of the hottest — Northville resident Kristine Dreyer will walk from sunrise to sunset to raise money for Team World Vision — an organization that is near Read More
A phone call from his son tipped off an Allen Park man that he had won a $500,000 Powerball prize from the Michigan Lottery. Allen Park resident Benjamin Pauline, 49, matched the five white balls in the Read More
U.S. Navy seaman Auvergne Breault was just 20 when he was struck by a giant mortar that knocked him off his boat, leading to his drowning death, during the June 6, 1944, allied forces invasion of Normandy, Read More
Only one attempt separated Salem senior Madison Morson from winning an MHSAA state high jump title Saturday afternoon. But it wasn’t the Rocks’ senior two-sport standout who was attempting to clear the ultimate winning Read More
Not long after he was hired as the Salem girls lacrosse coach before the 2020 season, Damien Butler received some good news from a fellow coach. “He called me and told me, ‘Hey, you have a Read More
During the debut season of “American Idol” that ran through the summer of 2003, 9-year-old Canton native Kacie Rose and her mom, Rose, never missed an episode. “We watched it religiously,” Kacie reflected, “mostly because we Read More
