January - 2021

Birmingham discusses city's long-range plans

The Birmingham City Commission and department heads spent the day on Saturday, January 23, discussing long-range plans for the city

Police departments partner for mental health

The Birmingham, Bloomfield Township and Auburn Hills police departments will be partnering to create a mental health co-responder unit

House of worship okayed despite objections

The Detroit Meeting Room, a new house of worship for the Plymouth Brethren Church, received approvals for its combined site plan and special

Como's opens pop-up adjacent to Maple Theater

Como's Restaurant, a popular Ferndale destination, is opening a pop-up location adjacent to the Maple Theater on Friday, February 5

Birmingham reverses Pearl parking denial

Birmingham city commissioners on Monday, January 25, reversed a previous denial to The Pearl, 856 N. Old Woodward, to use several on-street

Smash-and-grab burglars hit Shell station

Birmingham police are investigating a smash-and-grab burglary early Wednesday, January 20, at a Shell gas station in the 3300 block of...

Shoplifters steal windbreakers from DICK's

Bloomfield Township police are looking for a pair of men who stole nearly $800 in clothing from a sporting good store on Telegraph Road....

School student approached by stranger in truck

A Bloomfield Hills Schools student who got off a school bus and was walking to his home between 11 and 11:20 a.m. on Friday, January 22,...

The movement to relax ban on psychedelic drugs

When many people hear the words “psychedelics” or “hallucinogenic drugs,” they think of the 1960s, of LSD and Timothy Leary, who coined the

Food insecurity increasing during the pandemic

One of the many indelible images over the past year is that of cars filling parking lots, drivers waiting in hours-long lines to pick up

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