Competing offer made on The Community House
A competing offer to purchase the Community House on Bates Street in Birmingham could well derail the offer made just weeks ago by the City of Birmingham to acquire the troubled iconic building.
Conditional okay for revised Dollar Tree plan
The designs for modifications to the storefront windows of the building at 33877 Woodward, the former site of a CVS, set to be the home of Birmingham’s first Dollar Tree store, were approved with conditions by the city’s design review board during the Wednesday, June 3, meeting.
Movie Nights in Booth Park starting tonight
The popular Birmingham Outdoor Movie Nights in Booth Park are back starting tonight (Friday, June 5) with a showing of the 2025 movie the Smurfs.
Park Summer Concert Series starts June 12
The City of Birmingham’s free, family-friendly In the Park Summer Concert Series returns to Shain Park with weekly outdoor performances from June 12 through August 26, and a new pre-show Kids Zone on July 1 and August 5.
Two arrested on firearm charges in township
The Bloomfield Township Police Department at approximately 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 28, responded to a reported road rage incident involving a firearm in the area of eastbound Square Lake Road and Yorkshire Lane, and two arrests were made.
Driver arrested on nearly twenty warrants
After being stopped for making an illegal turn, a driver was arrested near E. Lincoln and Ann Street in Birmingham the night of Friday, May 22, on 19 traffic warrants issued from multiple jurisdictions.
Bottles thrown at driver in road rage incident
While driving on northbound Pierce Street in Birmingham the night of Friday, May 22, an Oak Park couple were involved in a road rage incident during which another driver threw two bottles at their car.
Police investigating alleged window smashers
Birmingham police are investigating reported smashed windows at a local business on the 2000 block of E. Lincoln in the city.
Driver leaves after hitting fire hydrant
A man from Bloomfield Hills was given three citations the night of Tuesday, May 26, after he admitted to hitting a fire hydrant on northbound Old Woodward in Birmingham without reporting it.
School digital curriculum has its detractors
Mark, a veteran English and journalism teacher in an Oakland County school district, has just about had it. In his 18 years of teaching, he has witnessed the ever-increasing reliance on curriculum delivered digitally and its impact on teaching in classrooms where every student has their own device. Technology has become a barrier between his lessons on writing, literature, grammar, and sentence structure and the students who need to learn them.
PUNCHING POLLSTERS
The polls for the marquee races for August’s primary are coming in fast and furious, often with conflicting determinations on who could prevail to be the party’s candidate heading into the November general election for senate and governor. Twiddling the numbers is especially notable amongst the three Democrats fighting to be the standard bearer to replace retiring U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Township). Depending on the day and the poll, any of the three running – Congresswoman Haley Stevens, state Senator Mallory McMorrow or Abdul El-Sayed – are leading in the polls.
