Canton News Archives

“I love doing this because it's creative and challenging, the role is the opposite of what I see myself as.”

As an eighth-grade drama teacher, Melissa Mosquera requires her students to see a play, and she's made it easy for them to do so by inviting them to see her in the Plymouth-Canton AAUW's production of Snow ... via Hometown Life

“We've participated for about five years and we like to go back to this show because it's right in our backyard”

Garages, landscaping, windows, swimming pools, insulation and sky lights - the home improvement paradise is back. via Hometown Life

“There may be some changes in the upcoming menus”

The Plymouth-Canton Schools food service department has removed 27 cases of frozen meat from lunchroom freezers in school buildings throughout the district after discovering they were packaged by ... via Hometown Life

“We never thought of separating”

It just takes work, laughter, couples say By KORIE WILKINS * FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER * February 14, 2008 Playing footsie in bed. via Detroit Free Press

“Am I picking the best candidate we have or the best candidate for the district”

Click image to enlarge Plymouth-Canton school board members have named Craig Feigel as their top choice to be the next superintendent of the school district. via Journal Newspapers Online

“Each year, we get between 500 and 700 people to sign up. But we can always take more volunteers. It's a large area to cover.”

Hear any good frogs or toads lately? If so, you're just the type of person Friends of the Rouge is seeking for its annual Rouge River Watershed Frog and Toad Survey. via Detroit Free Press

“This arrest was the result of excellent communication in law enforcement”

Two "smash and grabs" Friday morning may have been the last for a 33-year-old Farmington Hills man police say is responsible for more than a dozen burglaries throughout the area. via Hometown Life

“Mommy's crying. Mommy broke the table. Mommy's in the rug”

A former police officer who tearfully told jurors he accidentally killed his pregnant lover was convicted Friday of murdering her and their unborn child. via The Detroit News

“She would've had injuries to her feet or lower legs”

District Court Judge Mike Gerou ordered Willis Jacob Adams bound over for trial on child abuse charges Friday, after prosecutors provided compelling evidence that he put his live-in girlfriend's 3-year-old ... via Hometown Life

Schuler Inc., Canton, Mich., recently announced the completion of a legal takeover process by which its parent company, Schuler AG, acquired Muller Weingarten AG. via Thefabricator.com

One hundred fifty jobs are up for grabs in Canton. Kohl's Department Stores is holding a job fair Feb. via WWJ-AM Southfield

Wayne-Westland Community Schools will offer district residents a Schools of Choice program for the 2008-2009 school year for students in kindergarten through grade eight. via Hometown Life

“We've cut so much the last five years ($12 million), we've got nowhere else to turn. The greatest impact is something that would turn the board's stomachs, increasing K-2 class size.”

Increases in elementary class sizes, a fee to participate in extracurricular activities, elimination of midday transportation for kindergarten students and moving graduation ceremonies from Eastern Michigan ... via Hometown Life

College Goal Sunday will help prospective college students complete federal financial aid forms. via Hometown Life

“I only knew him in passing but I decided to call him and it's worked out really well”

Karen Siupik and Eric Broad didn't know what to expect when they sat down together last year to talk about merging their chiropractic offices. via Hometown Life

“It turns out, as you're reading the scenes, they are not connected entirely well and each scene gives each person who is reading it a plausible motive for killing his fiancee”

It's a murder-mystery, but there are a few humorous parts here and there. And that's just the way Spotlight Players, which will present 'Rehearsal for Murder,' wants it. via Detroit Free Press

Sharon McPhail, general counsel for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, reads a statement on behalf of the mayor on Thursday at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Building, denying a secret deal in the text-message case. via Detroit Free Press

“He (Adams) said she was in the bathtub and the water coming out of the faucet burned her”

A 25-year-old man is facing felony child abuse charges after police say he scalded his girlfriend's young daughter in the bathtub of their Canton Township trailer, police announced today. via Detroit News

“We need to do something with it. We don't fit in with the rest of Canton, the way it sits right now.”

Proposed zoning changes along Ford Road met some resistance Monday night. Canton Township Planning Commissioners chose to preserve the character of a developing section of Ford Road Monday night. via Journal Newspapers Online

“I'm excited about the construction because we all need neighbors.”

In the future, shoppers will be able to swing through the Canton Corners shopping center and hit a few national retailers, grab a sandwich from a drive-through window, scoop up a GoPhone and nab a Nintendo Wii. via Hometown Life

“No matter how it's stuffed or how you slice and dice it, it's the stuffed chicken”

Honey, I want to open my own business. It's easy to imagine that's what Karen Rupert told her husband when she decided to put her nursing career on hold and create her own meal preparation company, Honey, ... via Hometown Life

“We believe in what's going on here. You can walk out of the door and have everything right there.”

It's not the steady stream of the early part of the decade but the water is back on in Cherry Hill Village. via Hometown Life

“O&E staff members received top awards for reporting, editorial, column and feature writing, sports and photography - all the important categories of community journalism”

The Observer & Eccentric Newspapers won 27 awards - including one for the Canton Observer staff - in the Suburban Newspapers of America Editorial Contest. via Hometown Life

“I also had to respect how serious the issue was for those in the community and on the city council.”

Megan Pennefather has won two awards in the national SNA contest for stories she did while a reporter for the Troy Eccentric. via Hometown Life

“This was our largest fire here since the Yankee Air Museum. Everyone worked well together, but it's unfortunate it was a total loss of the building.”

About 22 families were displaced last week from the fire at the Harbour Club Apartments in Van Buren Township. via Journal Newspapers Online