As a 13-year-old attending Farmington Public Schools, Oz Pearlman’s life was changed while traveling on a bar mitzvah cruise to Bermuda. Pearlman, who would later graduate from North Farmington High School at age 16 before earning an engineering degree from the University of Michigan, was blown away by a magician’s performance on the ship. “After […]
If you played sports as a youth, you may have been fortunate to play for someone like Frank Szczepanski — fondly known as “Coach Frank” by his legion of players. “My dad was one of those Read More
The youngest member of an ultra-athletic Canton family, Mileena Cotter was searching for her sports niche as a fifth-grader. “Up to that point in elementary school I had tried just about every other sport — soccer, Read More
An Oakland County man’s “jaw hit the floor and stayed there” when he scratched off his Jackson instant ticket and won $2 million! The lucky 54-year-old player, who chose to remain anonymous, bought his winning Read More
During the isolated days of pandemic-created remote learning in the fall of 2020, brothers Charlie and Parker Salowich — a freshman and junior, respectively, at Canton High School — would complete their morning online classes at home before Read More
The past few months have resembled a wild roller-coaster ride for Northville High School senior Joey Broughton, who has experienced exhilarating highs, dispiriting lows and every imaginable emotion in between. Throughout it all, he has Read More
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 Read More
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
