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Get ready for Birmingham Day On The Town

Mark your calendars for Saturday, July 26, for the annual Day On The Town sale event scheduled for downtown Birmingham.

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Home Alone featured at Friday Movie Nights

Outdoor Movie Nights at Booth Park in Birmingham continue this Friday, July 11, with the featured presentation of Home Alone.

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Wallet with cash taken, credit cards charged

A 62-year-old Troy woman reported on Thursday, July 3, that her wallet had been stolen from her purse while she assisted a woman at a grocery store in the 2100 block of East Maple Road.

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Intoxicated woman arrested for assault/battery

Birmingham police officers were dispatched on Saturday, July 5, to the Daxton hotel in the 200 block of South Old Woodward Avenue where a highly intoxicated 40-year-old Birmingham woman refused to leave the establishment and struck a Daxton security guard, a 46-year-old Ferndale woman.

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Electric scooter stolen from bike rack at Target

An electric scooter was stolen rom a bike rack outside the Target store at 2400 S. Telegraph Road on Monday, June 30.

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Nike items taken from Dick’s Sporting Goods

The Bloomfield Township Police Department responded on Wednesday, July 2, to 2105 S. Telegraph Road, Dick’s Sporting Goods, for a retail fraud that had just occurred.

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Packages stolen from several city homes

Birmingham police reported that several reports were made regarding package thefts in the 1000 block of W Lincoln Drive from Friday, July 4, to Tuesday, July 8.

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Southfield woman cited for property damage

A 40-year-old female resident of the 100 block of Millrace came to the police department to report on Saturday, July 5, that an unknown vehicle drove into the closed garage door of her home at approximately 2 a.m.

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Suspect destroys patio windows at restaurant

A Birmingham restaurant at the 200 block of E Maple was one of the city’s latest victims of property damage after an unknown man ruined the patio area’s windows.

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Lead testing program for kids ready to start

After multiple years of testing the municipal water in the beleaguered city of Flint every six months, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in May of this year determined that lead levels in Flint’s municipal water consistently measure at three parts per billion (ppb). That matches lead levels in drinking water supplies of Birmingham and Bloomfield Township and is far below the federal actionable levels of 15 ppb or state actionable levels of 12 ppb as of January 2025.

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ON YOUR MARK

The race to succeed Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Oakland County) for the 11th congressional district is officially on. First to the starting blocks is state Senator Jeremy Moss (D- Southfield, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township, Auburn Hills, Lake Angelus, Lathrup Village, Pontiac, parts of Detroit, Waterford and Southfield Township), who currently serves as Michigan Senate President Pro Tempore and has spent his tenure in the state legislature tackling the biggest issues facing Michiganders, and noted that in 2023, when the Democrats controlled the state House, Senate and governor, he had the most bills signed in the Senate.

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