After a unanimous vote from the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees on Monday, March 9, residents from special assessment districts (SAD) 425, 426 and 427 will be receiving a sizable refund in the mail soon.

At the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustee meeting on Monday, March 9, trustees voted unanimously to approve six individual township employee contracts after a very brief closed session.

The library board for the Baldwin Public Library has adopted its own Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) policy, signaling a further step in establishing the library as independent from control by the city of Birmingham. At the library board’s February 23 meeting, the board voted to adopt the FOIA policy that directs that any information requested relative to the library under the act to be handled by the library director as FOIA Coordinator, rather than having such requests r

The Friends of the Bloomfield Township Public Library will hold their Second Saturday Book Sale on Saturday, March 14, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friends members may shop the sale early from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., and memberships can be purchased at the door on the day of the sale. The sale takes place on the lower level of the library and includes thousands of books and audiovisual materials for all ages and interests, conveniently sorted into more than 50 categories. This sale f

The iconic Birmingham business Hunter House Hamburgers, originally located at 35075 Woodward Avenue until it recently moved to the former KFC a mile further down the road, has filed a lawsuit in Oakland County Circuit Court against a hamburger business, Better Burgers, that has moved into the original location for Hunter House, and the judge sided with the owners of Hunter House. Hunter House, owned by Kelly Cobb, first opened its doors in 1952 and has built a reputation as a

An upscale grocery market, Nourish Western Market, to take the space of a former Right Aid drug store at 42931 Woodward Avenue in Bloomfield Township that has been vacant for the past two years was approved by township trustees at the board meeting on Monday, February 23. The grocery market is owned by Steven Selvaggio and his son Steven Selvaggio who have operated a similar Western Market since 1988 in Ferndale. Steven Selvaggio explained to board members that the firm is p

Marking the finale to the years-long saga to find a home for Next senior services, Birmingham City Commissioners approved a 30-year lease agreement between the city and Next during the Monday, February 23, meeting for the former YMCA building located at 400 E. Lincoln.

Tamar Mediterranean, a restaurant offering a variety of food from the Mediterranean region, will be opening to replace the Zao Jun restaurant that used to be in the Bloomfield Plaza Shopping Center at Maple and Telegraph Road in Bloomfield Township after the township board of trustees gave unanimous approval to its plans on Monday, February 23. The new restaurant, which will have 182 seats at 6608 Telegraph Road, is owned by Zia Battah. The planned hours of operation will be

During the Monday, February 23, meeting, Birmingham City Commissioners voted to declare necessity and approve the formation of a special assessment district for this year’s cape seal program.

A proposal for Bloomfield Hollow, a 15,815-square-foot event center on a vacant 18-acre parcel located west of Franklin Road and north of Square Lake Road in Bloomfield Township, was put on hold Monday, February 16, by the township planning commission which failed to approve an amendment to a zoning ordinance that would have allowed the project.