Novi Bonnie Threet had just returned from her life-long dream trip to Ireland in May, when she got the earth-shattering news: you have lung cancer. She knew for a long time that she had lung nodules, after a chest x-ray when her left lung collapsed due to a softball injury when she was younger. Her […]
Having fun on Halloween is timeless for Clinton Township couple Norman and Maria Leo, both 91 years young. The Leos not only dressed up for the costume contest organized by their senior home — they won. Best Read More
Life has a way of delivering out-of-the-blue, uplifting pick-me-ups at the most-unlikely places, at the most random times. On Monday morning, Stefanie Singh and her 2-year-old son Jayden were grocery shopping at the Canton Meijer Read More
The Canton High School gymnastics team’s 2023-24 season could have tumbled into a chaotic abyss following the unexpected death of legendary coach John Cunningham on Oct. 21 — just over a week before the squad’s Read More
John Cunningham was much more than a gymnastics coach for the young ladies whose lives he enriched for the past five-plus decades. Cunningham was a life coach and his daily lesson plan was: Seize the Read More
Ferndale Mayor Melanie Piana recently received the Michael A. Guido Leadership and Public Service Award from the Michigan Municipal League. The Guido Award celebrates a chief elected official who personifies professionalism and leadership, is an Read More
Everyone has seen those compelling side-by-side, before-and-after photos of people who have dropped 100 pounds or more — the left pic notable for its excessive body fat, the right pic featuring ripped abs and a lean figure. Read More
Not all the fires Capt. Chris Madzik put out throughout his 28-year career with the Northville Township Fire Department involved flames. On one particular run to Northville High School several years ago, he assisted a Read More
Victor Bodrie remembers delivering his first football kicking lesson to Jake Moody like it was yesterday. Moody was a sixth-grader playing for the Northville Stallions junior football program and the 18-year-old Bodrie was an outstanding Read More
For all those young, want-to-be quarterbacks with less-than-prototypical QB height, there is hope. And his name is Sam Plencner. Listed as 5-foot-9 on the Plymouth Wildcats football roster, Plencner is a slippery, tough-as-nails, strong-armed pest Read More
