Take your stuff in the house at night. Week after week, people call the police to complain that someone entered their car during the night’either by simply opening an unlocked door or, in the case of more ambitious thieves, by smashing out a window. Once they’re in your car, these thieves will take just about […]
It’s just an ordinary brick, painted yellow with black letters’FBINA #229’stenciled on top. But for Lt. Dale LaBair, the brick symbolizes 10 weeks of intense academic and physical training at the FBI National Academy in Virginia. As commander of the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Independence Township substation, LaBair is among an elite few to attend […]
It’s time to step back and take a serious look at shared services, fees and the ways those fees are calculated. That was the decision of the Clarkston City Council who voted 5-1 Monday to move ahead with a feasibility study proposed in April by Independence Township Trustee Dan Kelly. Councilman Dan Colombo was absent […]
Police found recipes for explosives written on scrap paper and notepads in the apartment’and memberships to pyromania clubs in the truck’of a 31-year-old man seriously injured in last week’s explosion at an Independence Township apartment complex. Andy Impola, 31, and Lee Marvin Impola, 32, were reportedly inside a maintenance building at Landcaster Lakes Apartments off […]
Susan Surma of Redford Township didn’t mind hanging around DTE for several extra hours last week when storms knocked out the venue’s power and held up what was, for some, a much-anticipated Toby Keith concert. Surma, who came to the concert with her husband Kevin and several other family members, said she’d been to every […]
Police knew the man they were searching for was hiding in the attic of a local home, but he remained quiet and refused to come out, despite a houseful of armed deputies waiting below. The man changed his mind when officers called for reinforcement. ‘It wasn’t safe to send anyone up,? said Deputy Lonnie Mullins […]
Rumors, innuendos and vague accusations at June 25 city council meeting stirred up debate over who is–and isn’t–entitled to supervise Clarkston’s transitioning police department. Resident Tom Stone, who has frequently voiced concern over violation of the city charter, broached the subject when he asked council how it decides which laws to enforce’and which not. ‘I’m […]
After nearly a year of planning, meetings and gradually winning over some of Springfield Township’s angry residents, REDICO has disappeared from the radar. Township Supervisor Collin Walls said he last met with representatives from the Southfield-based developer in April, and hasn’t heard anything since. Rumors of problems with the proposed development’s sewer system, he said, […]
A pile of 23 resumes shrunk to eight last week when Clarkston’s Police Chief Selection Committee met to officially begin hunting for the city’s next top cop. ‘The hiring of the next police chief is perhaps the most important recommendation the council will make to the city manager for the next several years,? said committee […]
With tempers considerably cooled after a June 11 meeting left officials clashing over whether Clarkston was headed for broke, the city council voted 4-0 Monday to approve the 2007-2008 budget. Jim Brueck, Kristy Ottman and Bill Rausch were absent from the meeting. ‘We have a difference of opinion on (the budget),? said Councilman Cory Johnston, […]